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

Determined to find out the true effects of marijuana on the human body, stand-up comedian and former...

Many geneticists and archaeologists have long surmised that human life began in Africa. Dr. Spencer ...
The film follows Vincent Schiavelli as he returns to Polizzi Generosa, the very town in Sicily his g...

Follow the shocking, yet humorous, journey of an aspiring environmentalist, as he daringly seeks to ...

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

Deconstructing Supper is a ride every contemporary eater will want to take, a thought-provoking and ...
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...

A look at the people who use and champion the treatment of cancer with Cannabis.

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 documentary concerning a group of friends who get together, eat shawarma and drink beer. The...

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

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

In the year 2000, Les Blank, along with co-filmmaker Gina Leibrecht, visited Richard Leacock (1921-2...

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

The simple staple bread has become a branded product with an increasing number of varieties and prov...