Threads of Life

The biggest tech revolution of the 21st century isn’t digital, it’s biological. A breakthrough calle...

Having to prove the existence of God to an atheist is like having to prove the existence of the sun,...

Many geneticists and archaeologists have long surmised that human life began in Africa. Dr. Spencer...

Unlocking the Mystery of Life represents a unique programming opportunity for local stations. Its br...

An experimental film following a trip made by three friends in which the contrast between the agitat...

A scientific film essay, narrated by Phil Morrison. A set of pictures of two picnickers in a park, w...

It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform...

This narrated computer animation, with an original musical score, illuminates cellular mitosis. DNA...

When Harvard PhD student Jennifer Brea is struck down at 28 by a fever that leaves her bedridden, do...

Earth teems with a staggering variety of animals, including 9,000 kinds of birds, 28,000 types of fi...

Each day, some 2.5 trillion bytes of data are exchanged, a deluge known as "big data." How can we cl...

At age 29, documentary filmmaker Sara Lamm discovered that she was conceived via sperm donor. Using...

A documentary about Rosalind Franklin, the scientist who first photographed and discovered the shape...

The made-for-cable documentary film The Real Eve is predicated on the theory that the human race can...

How did your body become the complicated, quirky, amazing machine it is today? Anatomist Neil Shubin...

The unsolved rape, mutilation and murder of young G.I. Darlene Krashoc has haunted Joe Kenda in the...

This animated film was made by RIKEN Omics Science Center for the "Beyond DNA" exhibition at the Nat...

Over three very personal films, Sir David Attenborough looks back at the unparalleled changes in nat...

A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistor...