The film interweaves the personal accounts of polio survivors with the story of an ardent crusader who tirelessly fought on their behalf while scientists raced to eradicate this dreaded disease. Based in part on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Polio: An American Story by David Oshinsky, Features interviews with historians, scientists, polio survivors, and the only surviving scientist from the core research team that developed the Salk vaccine, Julius Youngner.
A documentary focused on infectious disease outbreaks.
It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform...
A documentary about the 1999 discovery of a Mastodon skeleton in a Hyde Park backyard.
Join critically-acclaimed author and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and world-renowned theor...
Deep down at the bottom of the ocean lies the mysterious world of the abyss. In the midst of boiling...
Esma, Berk and Hasan are three people who try to escape the troubles of life with the help of a vide...
This History Channel documentary traces the Ottoman Empire from its beginnings in the 14th century t...
The 2016 Reebok CrossFit Games were a grueling five-day, 15-event test to find the fittest man and w...
Let There Be Light follows the story of dedicated scientists working to build a small sun on Earth, ...
In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad successfully accomplished the enormous engineering feat of buildi...
China is the only civilization that continues to hold sway throughout its entire territory as define...
A testament to NASA's Apollo program of the 1960s and '70s. Composed of actual NASA footage of the m...
It was perhaps the most spectacular flourishing of imagination and achievement in recorded history. ...
What happens when a group of Finns travel to a tiny village in Benin to participate in a vaccination...
Sniper: Bulletproof deconstructs and analyzes the little-known sniper events that have occurred when...
A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Gene...
In Astronomy Part 2, you will learn all about the planets, asteroids, comets, meteoroids, the layers...
This series also covers the essential concepts of astronomy: gravity, the light spectrum, Earth's ma...
Physics is a system of models of nature according to which all phenomena are explained in terms of m...