A series of programs designed for the adult layman who has a curiosity about the skies and the makeup of the universe in which we live. The terms used during the series are fully explained and materials from a number of great observatories and institutions of learning are used for visual illustration. It begins with the solar system and works outward, stimulating interest in this area and awakening a desire for further study and investigation.

The 1960s was an extraordinary time for the United States. Unburdened by post-war reparations, Ameri...

This 90-minute documentary brings to life Gavin Pretor-Pinney’s international bestseller, “The Cloud...

What if you could get behind the wheel and race through space? We scale down the Solar System to the...

In the fifties, when the future Democratic Republic of Congo was still a Belgian colony, an entire g...

In the year 1957 the cold war expands to space. The Soviet-Union sends Sputnik as the first manmade ...

The first American space station Skylab is found in pieces scattered in Western Australia. Putting t...

Billions of years ago, Venus may have harbored life-giving habitats similar to those on the early Ea...

A roller-coaster ride through the history of American exploitation films, ranging from Roger Corman'...

Martin Scorsese is among those paying tribute to Gene Tierney, the Academy Award-nominated American ...
An animated short film that explains in a pedagogical way how the radio transmission works. Created ...

As Russian writer Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) thinks it is impossible that his novel Doctor Zhivago ...
Narrated by Sir Michael Redgrave, this film shows the colleges and student life of Cambridge in 1963...

Explore the sun’s powerful storms, its impact on Earth, and groundbreaking research shaping our unde...

Exploring the rise and fall of the groundbreaking animated series Ren & Stimpy and its controversi...