Smartphones, computers, gaming consoles or digital tablets are now givens in our daily lives. The electronic intrusion is causing controversy and collective hysteria. Are we damaging our brains with all these screens? How will unprecedented exposure to screens impact humanity? To find out, the filmmakers examine how science has been applied to distinguish between truth and falsehoods, and explore the suspected side-effects of screen exposure. The documentary travels through the US and Europe to meet and speak to researchers who are leaders in this field.
It is the world’s most mysterious manuscript. A book, written by an unknown author, illustrated with...
Clarissa Dickson Wright tracks down Britain's oldest known cookbook, The Forme of Cury. This 700-yea...
An account of Orson Welles' 1938 radio drama broadcast that inadvertently started a mass panic.
A 1970s American elementary school program encouraging students to figure out for themselves the uni...
This film is a story about that time in the Baltics, Latvia, and Riga. Young rebels of 1960s – nonco...
Originally founded as Freedman’s Town after the Civil War, The Fourth Ward is one of the oldest and ...
Hormones – without them, nothing would work in our body: the messenger substances control our physic...
Milan, western suburbs. In one of the nine districts ("zone") of the city, the students of the "Rosa...
A look at the state of the global environment including visionary and practical solutions for restor...
In the northern hemisphere, snow is produced by atmospheric low pressure areas that move in from the...
Scientists are coming to understand fat as a dynamic organ—one whose size may have more to do with b...
One night seven years ago, Rafael came home after work and discovered that people he did not know ha...
A riveting expose about the personalities of murderers and their motives. This 72 minute film covers...
In interviews, various actors and directors discuss their careers and their involvement in the makin...
Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.
An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have prog...
10 brave kids, 2 Emmy award winning journalists, 1 clinical psychologist at Columbia University and ...