The film discusses the evolution and potential of using light waves, particularly coherent light, for communication. It highlights the development of lasers at Bell Telephone Laboratories, explaining how they produce a highly controlled and intense beam of light that could revolutionize communication. The film emphasizes the vast possibilities of lasers, including applications in telecommunications, surgery, and exploring the universe, suggesting that this technology represents a significant step in humanity's understanding and use of light.
A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time...
Before the internet. Before social media. Before breaking news. The victims of Thalidomide had to re...
If machines can be smarter than people, is humanity really anything special?
In Astronomy Part 2, you will learn all about the planets, asteroids, comets, meteoroids, the layers...
Bill Nye is retiring his kid show act in a bid to become more like his late professor, astronomer Ca...
A vivid journey into the mysterious subterranean world of mycelium and its fruit— the mushroom. A st...
This shows physicist Stephen Hawking's life as he deals with the ALS that renders him immobile and u...
Theory of Light is a documentary centred on the climate emergency through a climate justice lens. It...
Physicist Dr Helen Czerski takes us on a journey into the science of bubbles - not just fun toys, bu...
The Academy Award® nominee Cosmic Voyage combines live action with state-of-the-art computer-generat...
Does infinity exist? Can we experience the Infinite? In an animated film (created by artists from 10...
Backed by an echoed horn music, the light passes through a magnifying glass. On the walls, they port...
A team of international scientists attempt to document the first-ever image of a black hole.
Near the cold Pyrenees of Iberia, surrounded by ancient and dark green forests, lies a strange land ...
Before the joint NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission, humanity only knew what had been learned, decades...
A documentary produced in 1979 to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Albert Einstein. Narrated ...
Twenty years after A Brief History of Time flummoxed the world with its big numbers and black holes,...
CERN in Switzerland is a research center where they try to recreate the big bang. Nikolaus Geyrhalte...
A documentary examining what the Tyrannosaurus Rex was really like - both appearance and behaviour -...
An epic documentary film that sends nine scientists to extraordinary parts of the world to uncover u...