With a wealth of fantastic archive footage and a series of revealing interviews with those who had first-hand experience, filmmaker Vicki Lesley tells the turbulent story of the West’s love-hate relationship with a nuclear power over the past seventy years. Capturing both the tantalising promise and the repeated disappointments of this singular technology, the film reveals how the post-war, romantic fantasy of an Atom-powered future developed into the stormy, on-off relationship still playing out today. A tale of scientific passion and political intrigue all wrapped up in the packaging of a sentimental screen melodrama.

The first American space station Skylab is found in pieces scattered in Western Australia. Putting t...
The focus of this film is on Canada's nuclear research centre at Chalk River, Ontario. Key to atomic...
A narrated account of Atomic Energy of Canada's plan to construct permanent nuclear waste storage fa...
A two-part study of nuclear power with Larry Henderson, skilled observer, analyst and commentator on...
This film shows the exacting procedures used during the 1970 replacement of the calandria in the NRX...
A new system devised by Canadians whereby the dryout process in fuel bundles for a nuclear reactor c...

A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time...

Explore the secrets of the universe with Professor Brian Cox in this special event that combines gro...

Before the internet. Before social media. Before breaking news. The victims of Thalidomide had to re...

Are we becoming Plastic People? Our ground-breaking feature documentary investigates our addiction t...
The film discusses the evolution and potential of using light waves, particularly coherent light, fo...
An account of the mining and refining of uranium showing how the development of energy from uranium ...

A documentary produced in 1979 to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Albert Einstein. Narrated ...

In this two-part Channel 4 series, Professor Richard Dawkins challenges what he describes as 'a proc...

With input from an eclectic mix of scientists, engineers, sportspeople (and about thirty thousand sn...

Who is Kim Yo-jong? In a context of maximum tensions between North Korea and the United States, Pier...

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