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This 56-minute documentary on America's most controversial and unique composer manages to cover a gr...

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Narrated by Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons, The Genius of George Boole assembles academics and ind...

Meet Nikola Tesla, the genius engineer and tireless inventor whose technology revolutionized the ele...

Brilliant physicist Albert Einstein, and English scientist Arthur Eddington form an unlikely friends...

Professor Jim Al-Khalili investigates the amazing science of gravity. As well sculpting our universe...

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

A documentary chronicling the history of the telescope from the time of Galileo. Featuring interview...

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Who invented time, who invented the clock? Why 1 hour, why 60 minutes, why 60 seconds? Since prehist...

A humor-inflected history of the of the number one, covering military applications in ancient Rome, ...

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