Living Universe
Are we alone in the universe? In the history of the human species, perhaps no other question has so sparked the imagination. Living Universe is an ambitious and cinematically rendered spectacle that seeks the answer. Over three...
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History Cold Case
History series which sees skeletons of everyday people from across the ages analyzed in staggering detail, opening new windows on the history of our forebears by literally revealing the person behind the skeleton. The fascinating work of world-renowned Professor...
Aristotle's Lagoon
In the 4th century BC the Greek philosopher Aristotle traveled to Lesvos, an island in the Aegean teeming, then as now, with wildlife. His fascination with what he found there, and his painstaking study of it, led to the...
Pluto and Beyond
In January of 2006, NASA's New Frontiers program launched New Horizons, an ambitiously crafted space probe that was designed to travel farther into the universe than ever before. The mission represented the ultimate journey...
Most of the Universe is Missing
A fantastic Horizon (one of my favorites) that looks into the research on Dark Matter (with a twist of comedy to it!)... We know what 4% of the Universe is made of. But what about the rest? There was a time, not so long ago, when...
The Search for Earthlike Planets
For many years, the remarkable planet-searching mission, Kepler, gazed at a large body of 150,000 stars situated in a neighborhood located 3,000 light years away from planet Earth. The valuable information harvested by this...
Visions of the Future
In this new three-part documentary, leading theoretical physicist and futurist Dr Michio Kaku explores the cutting edge science of today, tomorrow, and beyond. He argues that humankind is at a turning point in history. In this...
One Billion Years Ago: Is This Eden?
Imagine sitting on your comfy couch, closing your eyes, and travelling back through time one billion years into the past. Upon opening your eyes, you'd probably find yourself gasping...
The Magic of the Unconscious
When you look at a person for a first time, whether you want or not, you've already passed judgment. In a split second you've already decided if you find that person trustworthy, competent, or likable. Your brain is a...
What Darwin Never Knew
Earth teems with a staggering variety of animals, including 9,000 kinds of birds, 28,000 types of fish, and more than 350,000 species of beetles alone. What explains this explosion of living creatures-1.4 million different...
Birth of the Planet
In this first episode of Catastrophe series, host Tony Robinson speaks with planetary experts, archaeologists and paleontologists to understand one of our solar system's first great disasters and its most notable outcome: the...
Seven Wonders of the Microbe World
This little documentary is talking about Microbes and why some are good, some are bad and what they have done for mankind. Microbes have given us some devastating diseases, everything from the Black Death to cholera, syphilis, typhoid and...
Everything and Nothing
Two-part documentary which deals with two of the deepest questions there are - what is everything, and what is nothing? In two epic, surreal and mind-expanding films, Professor Jim Al-Khalili searches for an answer to these...
Human Ape
Humans are apes. Great apes. Apes all belong to the super-family Hominoidea. The great apes are the family Hominidae which we share with the Chimpanzees, Gorillas and the Orangutan. Our DNA is less than 2 percent different from...