How did your body become the complicated, quirky, amazing machine it is today? Anatomist Neil Shubin uncovers the answers in this 3-part science series that looks at human evolution. Using fossils, embryos and genes, he reveals how our bodies are the legacy of ancient fish, reptiles and primates — the ancestors you never knew were in your family tree.

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

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

Ashes and Snow, a film by Gregory Colbert, uses both still and movie cameras to explore extraordinar...

An educational film about the life cycles of various types of pond life.

A scientist explains how the savagery and efficiency of the insect world could result in their takin...

In a race against developers in the Rocky Mountains, paleontologists uncover a unique fossil site pa...
Every now and then, we get a teacher who doesn't just connect with us -- they make us a better perso...

Commentator-comic Bill Maher plays devil's advocate with religion as he talks to believers about the...

An aspiring photojournalist takes a trip to Julian, CA to learn about the history of two wolf specie...

In 1973 Yorkshire public television made a short film of the Nobel laureate while he was there. The ...

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

The Dream Is Alive takes you into space alongside the astronauts on the space shuttle. Share with th...

A short doc about how faces are perceived: by scientists, by artists, by animals. How do we remember...

In the daily struggle for survival, terrible thirst drives wildlife to water...even when the water i...

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

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

Jack Parsons: Jet Propelled Antichrist is a story about one of the fathers of modern rocketry and a ...
Every month, an estimated 200,000 Australians deliberately hurt themselves. They cut, scratch, burn ...

Human genetics is one of the most exciting fields in science at the moment. Not only does it advance...