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?

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Documentary on the Shackleton Antartic expedition. A retelling of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated ...

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A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwi...

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Meet Nikola Tesla, the genius engineer and tireless inventor whose technology revolutionized the ele...

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A Cambridge geneticist dispels misconceptions about living with obesity and explores why the epidemi...