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.
At the far end of the world, there exists a chain of strange islands, steeped in controversy. The My...
Dr George McGavin and Dr Zoe Laughlin set up base camp at one of the UK's biggest sewage works to in...
A mind-bending, thrilling journey exploring the fragility and wonder of planet Earth, one of the mos...
The film interweaves the personal accounts of polio survivors with the story of an ardent crusader w...
Follow the shocking, yet humorous, journey of an aspiring environmentalist, as he daringly seeks to ...
He's hungry, and chances are you're also hungry, so tag along. Who knows, you might learn a thing or...
Savour the top gastronomic delights that every diner should sample in their lifetime, as voted for b...
Pioneering Australian bio-artists SymbioticA showcase their “Sunlight, Soil & Shit (De)Cycle” projec...
Join world renowned chefs, Pierre Sang & Cédric Grolet, as they travel Saudi Arabia experiencing new...
Darwin's great insight – that life has evolved over millions of years by natural selection – has bee...
Don Emilio is a humble, 63-year-old man who lives in the Amazon rainforest, seven miles from the cit...
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...
When asked to make a documentary about her friend’s mother—a Parisian astrologer named Juliane—the f...
With nutritionally-depleted foods, chemical additives and our tendency to rely upon pharmaceutical d...
The Hobbit Enigma examines one of the greatest controversies in science today: what did scientists f...
Peter Westerveld, artist and visionary, doesn’t want institutions to resolve the problems linked to ...
Nova and National Geographic present exclusive access to an astounding discovery of ancient fossil h...
The Dream Is Alive takes you into space alongside the astronauts on the space shuttle. Share with th...