Featuring Michael Pollan and based on his best-selling book, this special takes viewers on an exploration of the human relationship with the plant world — seen from the plants' point of view. Narrated by Frances McDormand, the program shows how four familiar species — the apple, the tulip, marijuana and the potato — evolved to satisfy our yearnings for sweetness, beauty, intoxication.

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

To the Least of My Brothers and Sisters is a new documentary on the life of Jerome Lejeune, the Fath...

The hidden story of a savory local specialty found only on the French Riviera and the surrounding ar...

Bill Nye and Ken Ham debate whether creation is a viable model of origins in today's modern scientif...

All food can be adulterated. More discreet than a drug cartel, more elusive than arms dealers, crimi...

A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time...

Morgan Spurlock subjects himself to a diet based only on McDonald's fast food three times a day for ...

From the UFC Octagon in Las Vegas and the anthropology lab at Dartmouth, to a strongman gym in Berli...

An intimate look at the Woodstock Music & Art Festival held in Bethel, NY in 1969, from preparation ...

Principles of Curiosity presents a general introduction to the foundations of scientific skepticism ...

William Shatner sits down with scientists, innovators and celebrities to discuss how the optimism of...
The film follows Vincent Schiavelli as he returns to Polizzi Generosa, the very town in Sicily his g...

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

From the unique vantage point of 200 miles above Earth's surface, we see how natural forces - volcan...

An award-winning feature-length creative documentary exploring the extraordinary world of the plasmo...

Travel alongside the astronauts as they deploy and repair the Hubble Space Telescope, soar above Ven...

This film shows how far we have come since the cold-war days of the 50s and 60s. Back then the Russi...

In The Womb is a 2005 National Geographic Channel documentary that focus on studying and showing the...
In this nostalgic documentary, restaurant critic Giles Coren challenges Heston Blumenthal to take hi...

Documentary filmmaker Robert Kenner examines how mammoth corporations have taken over all aspects of...