The biggest tech revolution of the 21st century isn’t digital, it’s biological. A breakthrough called CRISPR gives us unprecedented control over the basic building blocks of life. It opens the door to curing disease, reshaping the biosphere, and designing our own children. This documentary is a provocative exploration of CRISPR’s far-reaching implications, through the eyes of the scientists who discovered it, the families it’s affecting, and the genetic engineers who are testing its limits.

A closer look at the science of Human evolution, and how much early humans might've contributed to t...

Earth teems with a staggering variety of animals, including 9,000 kinds of birds, 28,000 types of fi...

In this two-hour special, NOVA captures the turmoil that tore apart the community of Dover, Pennsylv...

You find fungi in Antarctica and in nuclear reactors. They live inside your lungs and your skin is c...

Photo sequence of the rare transit of Venus over the face of the Sun, one of the first chronophotogr...

The film tells a very personal story from two perspectives: our protagonist is both doctor and patie...

The first American space station Skylab is found in pieces scattered in Western Australia. Putting t...
A documentary about the 1999 discovery of a Mastodon skeleton in a Hyde Park backyard.

As clichés go, in 1999 the World as we knew it was about to change - and we'd been expecting it. Sin...

Principles of Curiosity presents a general introduction to the foundations of scientific skepticism ...

At age 29, documentary filmmaker Sara Lamm discovered that she was conceived via sperm donor. Using ...

William Shatner sits down with scientists, innovators and celebrities to discuss how the optimism of...

A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwi...

An experimental film following a trip made by three friends in which the contrast between the agitat...

An educational film about the nervous system produced by Encyclopædia Britannica Films, an education...

An educational film about frogs produced by Encyclopædia Britannica Films, an educational film produ...

Host Grant Jeffrey discusses how technology and government activities are changing the way our infor...

A large iron meteorite is found by two enthusiasts. But who owns it? A subtle film about property ri...

Meet Nikola Tesla, the genius engineer and tireless inventor whose technology revolutionized the ele...

An illuminating look inside the lives of the Grucci family, whose Long Island-based fireworks busine...