With extraordinary access, BLAST exposes a world of risky, hardcore, scientific adventure. The story follows an international team of astrophysicists trying to launch a multi-million dollar telescope on a NASA high-altitude balloon. Their journey to discover thousands of early galaxies takes them from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Revealing frustrations, inevitable failures and ultimate triumph, BLAST puts a human face on the quest to answer our most basic question - How did we get here?
A vast white wilderness that stretches across the south of our planet; a giant natural laboratory th...

Many geneticists and archaeologists have long surmised that human life began in Africa. Dr. Spencer ...

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A breathtaking adventure across five continents and through time to reveal nature's most vital secre...

Darwin's great insight – that life has evolved over millions of years by natural selection – has bee...

Yûichirô Miura, the man who skied down Everest, journeys to an 8,000 foot mountain in the midst of a...

On April 25, 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick published their groundbreaking discovery of the do...

An award-winning feature-length creative documentary exploring the extraordinary world of the plasmo...
Documents part 1 of the Jan./Feb. 2002 light DXpedition to Antarctic's South Sandwich Islands on the...

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A documentary film that takes us on a scientific and spiritual journey where we discover that by cha...

Principles of Curiosity presents a general introduction to the foundations of scientific skepticism ...
Dr. Helen Caldicott is the most prominent anti-nuclear activist in the world. She's been featured on...
The film discusses the evolution and potential of using light waves, particularly coherent light, fo...

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Arctic Tale is a 2007 documentary film from the National Geographic Society about the life cycle of ...
A documentary about the 1999 discovery of a Mastodon skeleton in a Hyde Park backyard.