One of the most interesting shows ever aired on public television was Wim Kayzer's interviews with six leading intellectuals who represented both the mainstream academic (Stephen J. Gould, Freeman Dyson and Stephen Toulmin) and more or less, as it were, "eccentric" outside the box groundbreaking intellectuals (Oliver Sacks and Rupert Sheldrake). Kayzer interviews each of them (and philosopher Daniel Dennett) individually and then has the entire group sit in a kind of round-table seminar that he moderates and lets the ideas fly.
For ten years, Raymond Depardon has followed the lives of farmer living in the mountain ranges. He a...
Portrait of the last year of the life of famous New York drag queen Consuela Cosmetic.
David Attenborough and scientist Johan Rockström examine Earth's biodiversity collapse and how this ...
Werner Herzog discusses the making of "Nosferatu" on set.
A look back at the origins of rocket science and forward to the cutting edge technology of reusable ...
The brutes and the belles. The gadflies and the good ol' boys. The taboos and the profound truths. T...
A documentary special taking a look at the upcoming films making up the DC Universe. Kevin Smith hos...
NOTFILM is a feature-length experimental essay on FILM -- its author Samuel Beckett, its star Buster...
Soft boys by day, kings by night. The film follows a group of young Bulgarian Roma who come to Vienn...
The film discusses the traits and originators of some of metal's many subgenres, including the New W...
Darwin's great insight – that life has evolved over millions of years by natural selection – has bee...
A conversation with Brazilian documentary filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho about his work and methods.
Explore how one man's relentless drive and invention of the atomic bomb changed the nature of war fo...
9/11 was perhaps the defining historical event of the postwar era. Broadcast live around the world l...
What is it about Speedos? Well here Australian director Tim Hunter is on a mission to find the answe...
The story of Muhammad Iqbal, a turn of the century poet/philosopher from South Asia. Through Iqbal's...
A poetic look at the life and legacy of legendary author Philip K. Dick (1928-1982), who wrote over ...
This refreshingly frank and impartial study of the discovery and development of the notorious halluc...
Professor Alice Roberts joins entomologist Tim Cockerill in a house filled with hundreds of spiders ...
In 1858 Charles Darwin struggles to publish one of the most controversial scientific theories ever c...