Pleasure is vital for our survival – without it we wouldn’t eat or have sex, and would soon die out as a species. But how does pleasure work and what gives us the most pleasure in life? In an attempt to find out, Michael Mosley learns how
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The Planets
Employing computer graphics, space race archive material and first-hand testimony from scientists around the world, The Planets is comprehensive and spectacular account of space exploration and discovery. This series is a historical production about the history of space travel including both Russian and American perspectives. It focuses
UNGRIP
Ben Stewart and Dan Stewart, creators of Esoteric Agenda and Kymatica, focus the essence of this film around the journey through transitional and groundbreaking moments in a human’s life. At a major juncture in his life, rob in the pagé family began down a road less traveled
Can’t Stop Eating
Can’t Stop Eating is documentary film that follows the lives of several people with Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS). The film is set in Gretton House, near Kettering in England, which is a government-funded care home deliberately constructed to assist people with PWS. Prader–Willi syndrome is a rare genetic
Madeleine Was Here
The documentary reconstructs events surrounding Madeleine’s disappearance using actors and based on testimony given to the Portuguese police as part of their investigations. How do the McCanns deal with the pain of not knowing what has happened to their daughter? And how do they try to create
The First World War
Although the First World War gets less attention than its successor, it was really the watershed event of the 20th century. This conflict shaped the world that came after to this day. It was the catalyst for the rise of soviet communism in Russia, whose unraveling less
Cities of the Underworld
In every major metropolis, skyscrapers loom above, taxis and vendors clamor at street level, and subways rumble below. But deeper beneath the hectic surface lie other, silent worlds, each with its own mysterious and fascinating history. Cities of the Underworld peels away the layers of time-often literally
Face to Face with Annie Machon
Annie Machon is a former British Security Service (MI5) intelligence officer who left the Service at the same time as David Shayler, her partner at the time, to help him blow the whistle about criminality within the intelligence agencies. By doing this, they had to give up
Alien Fireballs
A clear, Friday night in Ontario, Canada. A flaming fireball lights up the night sky as it streaks to Earth. It could carry with it secrets about the origins of our Solar System or evidence of life on other planets. But in order to study it, scientists