Bears and the hitherto unexplained mechanisms of their organism (such as hibernation) are the focus of medical research. As humans and bears are genetically very similar, scientists hope that more detailed research will lead to a breakthrough in the fight against widespread ailments. Can human medicine really learn from bears?
Orson Welles — with contributions from scientists George Wald, Carl Sagan, and others — examines the...
Bacteria, viruses, but also fungi, algae, pollen, and even insects: micro-organisms thrive and circu...
A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time...
Morgan Spurlock subjects himself to a diet based only on McDonald's fast food three times a day for ...
On display are the movement structures of Heliozoa, the expulsion of food remains, plasmogamy, separ...
A chronicle of Nobel Prize winning physicist Marie Curie's little known yet invaluable contribution ...
Rat Brain is a documentary that highlights Dr. John D. Douglass and his team's research at Seattle P...
Every year many new drugs come to market which offer hope to the sick and dying. This documentary fi...
In 2019 the fittest athletes on earth took on the unknown and unknowable during four intense days of...
In an era of throw-away ease, convenience has cost us our well-being. Plastics have been found insid...
Attenborough's team travels the globe for up-close looks at polar bears, grizzlies, pandas and other...
To the Least of My Brothers and Sisters is a new documentary on the life of Jerome Lejeune, the Fath...
FRONTLINE and NPR investigate the growing inequities in American healthcare exposed by COVID-19. The...
In the summer of 1928, the Scottish physician Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin by accident, b...
STRATA INCOGNITA, is a trans-scalar and trans-temporal journey across the geographies that articulat...
A documentary about the study of plant sentience with original music by Stevie Wonder. Utilizing tim...
A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwi...
For more than twenty years, Hubert Reeves has put science, his media influence, and his energy at t...
Consisting of a single shot, Spiders on a Web is one of the earliest British examples of close-up na...