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...
Follow the shocking, yet humorous, journey of an aspiring environmentalist, as he daringly seeks to ...
With nutritionally-depleted foods, chemical additives and our tendency to rely upon pharmaceutical d...
The Dream Is Alive takes you into space alongside the astronauts on the space shuttle. Share with th...
Savour the top gastronomic delights that every diner should sample in their lifetime, as voted for b...
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...
We all love food. As a society, we devour countless cooking shows, culinary magazines and foodie blo...
A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwi...
Sniper: Bulletproof deconstructs and analyzes the little-known sniper events that have occurred when...
In this remarkable journey, Planet Food travels the world to see how control of the spice trails, ov...
In The Womb is a 2005 National Geographic Channel documentary that focus on studying and showing the...
Marijuana is the most controversial drug of the 20th Century. Smoked by generations to little discer...
Many geneticists and archaeologists have long surmised that human life began in Africa. Dr. Spencer ...
Darwin's great insight – that life has evolved over millions of years by natural selection – has bee...
Documentary filmmaker Robert Kenner examines how mammoth corporations have taken over all aspects of...
In Ramen Heads, Osamu Tomita, Japan's reigning king of ramen, takes us deep into his world, revealin...
The true-life story of a Harlem's notorious Nicky Barnes, a junkie turned multimillionaire drug-lord...
A mind-bending, thrilling journey exploring the fragility and wonder of planet Earth, one of the mos...
Commentator-comic Bill Maher plays devil's advocate with religion as he talks to believers about the...