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.
Set in a speakeasy in Atlanta, “Twenty” is a feature documentary about fifteen young people making i...
Many geneticists and archaeologists have long surmised that human life began in Africa. Dr. Spencer ...
Procreation is the social duty of all fertile women, was the political thinking during the 1960s and...
Nova and National Geographic present exclusive access to an astounding discovery of ancient fossil h...
Pro-intelligent design scholars and scientists are often chastised, fired or denied tenured position...
Commentator-comic Bill Maher plays devil's advocate with religion as he talks to believers about the...
French documentary campaigning for the liberalization of abortion and contraception, directed by Cha...
This fascinating political look at a little-known chapter in women's history tells the story of "Jan...
The mother and daughter face the question of whether to keep the pregnancy or terminate it. Both are...
Women have always sought ways to terminate unwanted pregnancies, despite powerful patriarchal struct...
A scientist explains how the savagery and efficiency of the insect world could result in their takin...
The documentary tells two very different human fates in the 1920s Soviet Union. Nikolai Vavilov was ...
Darwin's great insight – that life has evolved over millions of years by natural selection – has bee...
An African narrator tells the story of earth history, the birth of the universe and evolution of lif...
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...
Documentary tells the story of Germany's origins from the Carboniferous period to the present day. I...
In 1858 Charles Darwin struggles to publish one of the most controversial scientific theories ever c...
At the far end of the world, there exists a chain of strange islands, steeped in controversy. The My...
Featuring Michael Pollan and based on his best-selling book, this special takes viewers on an explor...