A crash course in the professional and scientific work related to the field of venomous herpetology. The film covers diverse topics, including biochemistry, biology, law and public policy, conservation, venom collection, animal husbandry, antivenom production, emergency medicine, veterinary medicine, toxicology and toxinology. The film follows the personal and working lives of prominent experts in the field, beginning with their childhood interest through their professional careers, with particular emphasis on the sciences related to their work.

The first American space station Skylab is found in pieces scattered in Western Australia. Putting t...

CERN and the University of California-Santa Barbara are collaborating in the search for the elusive ...

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

With rising sea levels, land reclamation runs rampant in Singapore. Labrador Park is one such waterf...

The discovery of neuroplasticity, the fact that thoughts can change the structure and function of ou...

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

The sun is the miracle that makes everything possible - but also the greatest danger. For the first ...

Rat Brain is a documentary that highlights Dr. John D. Douglass and his team's research at Seattle P...
This film covers the basics of atomic theory while addressing the moral issues inherent in yielding ...

In his laboratory, an oceanographer conducts temperature and salinity tests to determine the necessa...

A documentary examining what the Tyrannosaurus Rex was really like - both appearance and behaviour -...

A documentary telling the remarkable human story of Stephen Hawking. For the first time, the persona...

A dinosaur-obsessed teen and his filmmaker father travel the world interviewing paleontologists abou...

Free Will? A Documentary is an in-depth investigation featuring world renowned philosophers and scie...

For over three decades, NASA and an international team of scientists and engineers pushed the limits...

They have no roots, no seeds, no flowers, but mosses show immense survival capacities and can suspen...

An educational film about the nervous system produced by Encyclopædia Britannica Films, an education...

An educational film about frogs produced by Encyclopædia Britannica Films, an educational film produ...