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.
Paella, tapas or tortillas: Spanish cuisine, which gives pride of place to vegetables and fresh prod...
In 1772, Englishwoman Mary Delany wrote to her niece: “I have found a new way of imitating flowers.”...
When the Oglala Sioux Tribe passed an ordinance separating industrial hemp from its illegal cousin, ...
Restaurateurs, musicians, politicians-everyone loves hummus. A story of faith, community, and growth...
Raising angora rabbits for wool; new marine navigation and safety technology; kitchen gadgets; devel...
Thanks to a remarkable discovery in the BBC's film vaults, the best of David Attenborough's early Zo...
A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwi...
New discoveries reveal the deadly secrets of the Bermuda Triangle as experts use cutting-edge scienc...
CERN, the world's largest physics laboratory, is also a society in itself. A mythological microcosm ...
In the first BBC documentary to be filmed entirely on smartphones, Mark Miodownik reveals the weird ...
Almost one hundred years ago, the project to reduce the world to mathematical physics failed suddenl...
What strange forces saved one isolated section along the Upper Mississippi River from the repeated c...
It's the most dangerous delicacy in the world. Despite incidents of poisoning year after year, the p...
Ninlawan Pinyo is the matriarch of a Thai American family, who hustled for her fortune by founding a...
Some want to keep it a secret, others want to deconstruct it, and some New Yorkers simply want to ce...
Farang, the Thai word for foreigner, is the story of chef Andy Ricker and how he spun a 25-year obse...
A group of five people with different backgrounds challenge themselves by driving 200 miles along Au...