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.
When Harvard PhD student Jennifer Brea is struck down at 28 by a fever that leaves her bedridden, do...
A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwi...
A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time...
Amidst radical changes in nicotine use globally, one filmmaker's journey through the confusion & fea...
Tobacco, climate change, pesticides,... Never has scientific knowledge seemed so vast, detailed and ...
A documentary that exposes the shocking truths behind industrial food production and food wastage, f...
Two countries, two restaurants, one vision. At Gabriela Cámara's acclaimed Contramar in Mexico City,...
While the debate continues about GMOs, Roundup and other toxic pesticides, this powerful film shares...
After years of overproduction, the Reagan administration unloads over 500 million pounds of surplus ...
We all love food. As a society, we devour countless cooking shows, culinary magazines and foodie blo...
SNIPERS: BULLETPROOF deconstructs and analyzes the little known sniper events that have occurred whe...
Commentator-comic Bill Maher plays devil's advocate with religion as he talks to believers about the...
When asked to make a documentary about her friend’s mother—a Parisian astrologer named Juliane—the f...
Marijuana is the most controversial drug of the 20th Century. Smoked by generations to little discer...
The true-life story of a Harlem's notorious Nicky Barnes, a junkie turned multimillionaire drug-lord...
Darwin's great insight – that life has evolved over millions of years by natural selection – has bee...
Many geneticists and archaeologists have long surmised that human life began in Africa. Dr. Spencer ...
In 1858 Charles Darwin struggles to publish one of the most controversial scientific theories ever c...
William Shatner presents a light-hearted look at how the "Star Trek" TV series have influenced and i...