The documentary depicts the birth of eugenics - a pseudo-science created in the 19th century that propounded the theory of perfecting the human race. According to the views of eugenicists, only healthy and creative individuals should reproduce. The film shows how these controversial ideas influenced the intellectual and political elite of the West in the 20th century, including the dictator of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler. Eugenics is a pseudoscience created in the 19th century and treating the improvement of the human race. According to eugenicists, only healthy and creative individuals could procreate, and the procreation of the sick or disabled and racially unworthy (prostitutes, the poor, beggars) should be forbidden. The author of the film posits that modern genetics, the killing of unborn children and euthanasia have their roots in this infamous pseudoscience.
Procreation is the social duty of all fertile women, was the political thinking during the 1960s and...
Shots puts an amusing spin on the little-known history of eugenics. It traces the genocidal, anti-et...
In 1858 Charles Darwin struggles to publish one of the most controversial scientific theories ever c...
David Attenborough takes us on a guided tour through the secret world of plants, to see things no un...
A documentary that explores the natural world of the sea, from the single-celled organism to more co...
Women have always sought ways to terminate unwanted pregnancies, despite powerful patriarchal struct...
Featuring Michael Pollan and based on his best-selling book, this special takes viewers on an explor...
Commentator-comic Bill Maher plays devil's advocate with religion as he talks to believers about the...
Pro-intelligent design scholars and scientists are often chastised, fired or denied tenured position...
Darwin's great insight – that life has evolved over millions of years by natural selection – has bee...
Nova and National Geographic present exclusive access to an astounding discovery of ancient fossil h...
The documentary tells two very different human fates in the 1920s Soviet Union. Nikolai Vavilov was ...
Many geneticists and archaeologists have long surmised that human life began in Africa. Dr. Spencer ...
An African narrator tells the story of earth history, the birth of the universe and evolution of lif...
The history of one idea with monstrous consequences, presented in the style of old newsreels and int...
A scientist explains how the savagery and efficiency of the insect world could result in their takin...
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...
A mind-bending, thrilling journey exploring the fragility and wonder of planet Earth, one of the mos...
The story of life on our planet by the man who has seen more of the natural world than any other. In...