The sun is the miracle that makes everything possible - but also the greatest danger. For the first time, a feature-length documentary is dedicated to the search for the significance of our home star for mankind, science and nature. Thanks to the researchers from the American space agency NASA, who work at the Canary Islands observatories in the hottest and coldest places on the planet.

How were the giant stone heads of Rapa Nui – also known as Easter Island – carved and raised, and wh...

Discovered about twenty years ago, the immense masses of water vapor that fly over the Amazon, calle...

Chaco Canyon, located in northwest New Mexico, is perhaps the only site in the world constructed in ...

In this two-part Channel 4 series, Professor Richard Dawkins challenges what he describes as 'a proc...

More and more bacteria are becoming insensitive to antibiotics, not least due to excessive drug cons...

The 1977 discovery of RNA splicing by Dr. Phillip A. Sharp, Kentucky farm boy turned Nobel-prize win...

Director Dominique Leclerc spent years depending on medical devices for her survival. Then, looking ...

A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time...
The film discusses the evolution and potential of using light waves, particularly coherent light, fo...

What forms might life take in the Solar System and beyond? In the Academy's newest original planetar...

Riding Giants is story about big wave surfers who have become heroes and legends in their sport. Dir...

Are we becoming Plastic People? Our ground-breaking feature documentary investigates our addiction t...

Cave paintings and lunar calendars exist in the caves and remains of prehistoric hunters studied rec...

In 1872, in the cave of Cavillon in Monaco, archaeologist Émile Rivière (1835-1922) unearthed an app...

Why did the Roman Empire, which dominated Europe and the Mediterranean for five centuries, inexorabl...