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- StarsRoy DotriceSpyros FokasDavid BowlesThis series describes what the ancient Hellenes believed about man, the soul and the universe, and why there was never a beginning to the universe. The strangest things of Nature.
- 2008– 53mTV EpisodeDirectorSophie Bonnet
- DirectorRick RowleyStarsJeremy ScahillNasser Al AulaqiSaleha Al AulaqiInvestigative journalist Jeremy Scahill is pulled into an unexpected journey as he chases down the hidden truth behind America's expanding covert wars.
- The development of computers from Charles Babbage's mechanical computers first used in the 1890 U. S. Census, to the computers developed during WW2 to break the German Enigma code. The computers that correctly predicted President Eisenhower's victory in the Presidential election. Transistor computers, integrated circuits and microcomputers used for the space race to the moon. Microprocessors that cut the size and price of computers in the 1970's. To networked computers sharing data and becoming easier to use as better software became available.
- DirectorPaul CrowderStarsJohn LithgowRon LivingstonThe story of 'Silicon Valley' and of two intelligent but very different men. William Shockley and Robert Noyce.
- DirectorJoey FigueroaZak KnutsonStarsJohn MiliusEthan MiliusAmanda MiliusA look at the life of filmmaker John Milius.
- DirectorJean-Philippe TremblayStarsKerry ShaleAmy GoodmanJanine JacksonExamines the new media monopoly by corporations in America versus the public battle for truth and democracy.
- DirectorChristopher SpencerStarsDonald SutherlandStoyan AleksievBogomil AtanasovStonehenge Decoded presents world-renowned archaeologists as they reveal a revolutionary new theory about who built Stonehenge and why.
- DirectorBill BrummelStarsD. Paul ThomasDavid M. ChalmersWilliam M. BanksThe history of the Ku Klux Klan in America.
- DirectorTria ThalmanOne of most scabrous real case of brainwash developed by CIA and British intelligence co-operation sharing their advances, later Frank Olson a brilliant American scientist of biological weapons strangely committed suicide in1953.
- DirectorMark LevinsonStarsDavid KaplanFabiola GianottiSherwood BoehlertAs the Large Hadron Collider is about to be launched for the first time, physicists are on the cusp of the greatest scientific discovery of all time -- or perhaps their greatest failure.
- DirectorThomas FaziEnrico ParentiStarsOlivier BancoultWilliam BlumNoam ChomskyOver the course of the last century, the US has silently encircled the world with a web of military bases unlike any other in history. No continent is spared.They have shaped the lives of millions, yet remain a mystery to most.
- StarsBill PatersonAl JolsonThe major causes and the consequences of the humankinds greatest economic depression.
- StarsTim Pigott-SmithSönke NeitzelIan KershawThe First World War - carnage on a scale never-before seen. But how did it all start? And how did some key figures of WWII fare in the earlier war?
- DirectorMarion MilneStarsNancy TateTantoo CardinalVernon DobtcheffYear 2060. Climate predictions made at the beginning of the 21st century have turned out to be dramatically true: global warming of the Earth's atmosphere now has serious consequences on the every day lives of our grandchildren.
- DirectorRobert GreenwaldStarsDavid AlbrightRobert BaerMilton BeardenRobert Greenwald's gripping and controversial documentary, detailing the administration's march to war, as seen through the eyes of countless experts. 2004 National Theatrical Release.
- StarsDaniel WebbLiev SchreiberTom BrokawWhy did the United States become a global superpower? America The Story of Us is an epic 12-hour television event that explores the country's remarkable journey.
- StarsCorey JohnsonJonathan KeebleTony PraveThe natural wonders of the world are being explained.
- StarsJohn ShrapnelAndrew FruchterSandra FaberHorizon examines supermassive black holes and the recent discovery that they are crucial to the formation of galaxies. Supermassive black holes were originally hypothesized to explain active galaxies and quasars, but later were discovered to be at the center of many ordinary galaxies including our own.
- DirectorHervé Martin-Delpierre
- StarsDavid Ogden StiersDick CheneyNewt GingrichThe people, ideas, and events that created our current world economy.
- StarsNikolay DrozdovKenneth BranaghAvery BrooksDocumentary-style series about the era of the dinosaurs, mixing real locations and CGI.
- StarsLee Perry
- DirectorRuaridh ArrowStarsRobert HelveyJamila RaqibGene SharpHOW TO START A REVOLUTION is the remarkable untold story of Nobel Peace Prize nominee Gene Sharp, the world's leading expert on non-violent revolution. This new film (from first time director Ruaridh Arrow) reveals how Gene's work has given a new generation of revolutionary leaders the weapons needed to overthrow dictators. It shows how his 198 steps to non-violent regime change have inspired uprisings from Serbia to Ukraine and from Egypt to Syria and how his work has spread across the globe in an unstoppable wave of profound democratic change. How To Start A Revolution is the story of the power of people to change their world, the modern revolution and the man behind it all.
- DirectorMichael BicksSarah HoltTerri RandallStarsJose-Manuel AlonsoHannah BosleyRodney BrooksNova ScienceNow examines how the brain works. It looks at magicians tricking the brain, engineers who are building an A.I. capable of playing Jeopardy, and scientists who are modifying behavior by electronic stimulation of the brain. It also profiles neuroscientist David Eagleman.
- StarsMichael CarrollPeter WellerJ.J. HuckinA series of documentaries that go over the world's history and it's many accomplishments.
- DirectorMark AchbarJennifer AbbottStarsMikela JayRob BeckwermertChristopher GoraDocumentary that looks at the concept of the corporation throughout recent history up to its present-day dominance.
- DirectorTony LeeStarsEric MeyersThe diamond's rise from gemstone to a cutting edge material that is set to revolutionize electronics
- StarsPeter GuinnessStephen BeckettBenjamin Till"Days That Shocked the World" is a British documentary television series that premiered on BBC Two on 17 September 2003 and ran for three series. Each 60-minute episode explores one or two major events in history through a combination of dramatization, archival footage and eyewitness accounts.
- TV series documenting catastrophes that could endanger human existence.
- DirectorBill JerseyMichael SchwarzStarsRalph AbrahamLoren CarpenterDana CartwrightA look at fractal geometry, and how it is found just about everywhere in everything, and how the mathematics of fractals can be used to model and measure such things as mountains, coastlines, telephone line noise and heart rhythm. It also shows how they are used in animation, communications and textile design.
- StarsMartine CadorAlain EhrenbergFranz X. VollenweiderBy studying the action of drugs on the brain, scientists gain insight into the workings of human consciousness. Drugs act on our brain, disrupting its communication circuits - a gigantic network of one hundred billion neurons, which science, for the past fifteen years, has known better and better. Beyond the effects of drugs, it is the process of addiction that is at the heart of the studies. Neurobiologists, geneticists, psychiatrists, pharmacologists and, increasingly, psychoanalysts, are bringing their positions closer together. This documentary series takes stock of the progress of their common knowledge.
- Everyday Einstein provides a fast-paced and jazzy look at the extraordinary impact Einstein continues to have on our daily lives.
- DirectorChad CohenStarsKevin BaconMichelle DeJesusGeorge DelisOn a single day on a single street, with the DNA of just a couple of hundred random people, National Geographic Channel sets out to trace the ancestral footsteps of all humanity.
- DirectorNeil CrombieStarsAlain de BottonPresented by Alain de Botton, looks into the philosophical impulses behind traveling and in doing so offers a profound and often witty view of some of the deeper issues underlying travel and our desire for it.
- DirectorLexy LovellMichael UysStarsMichael McPhearsonPerry ParksWill WilliamsFollows the journeys of five combat veterans from different generations of American wars as they sign up, go into battle, and eventually change their minds about what it means to be a good soldier.
- StarsErik ThompsonScientists are only now beginning to understand the most complex machine in the known universe - the brain. Go on a voyage of discovery into the evolutionary history of our last biological frontier. From early civilizations' attempts at neurosurgery to today's robotic laser surgery, revolutionary new techniques are finally unlocking the story of the brain. As a result, we've learned more in the last five years than in the past 100.
- DirectorPeter Yost
- StarsRobert WinstonAndrew BlackallPhillippaThe BBC explores the human body from the inside out as never before.
- DirectorJoe AyellaStarsErvand AbrahamianEhsan YarshaterAMERICAN COUP tells the story of the first coup ever carried out by the CIA - Iran, 1953. Explores the blowback from this seminal event, as well as the coup's lingering effects on the present US-Iranian relationship. Includes a segment on the 1979 Iranian Hostage Crisis and its relation to the 1953 coup. Concludes with a section on the recent Iranian presidential election. Contains interviews with noted Middle East experts and historians and prominent public figures such as Stephen Kinzer (author, All The Shah's Men), Prof. Ervand Abrahamian, Trita Parsi, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Ted Koppel and Rep. Ron Paul of Texas. With Iranian cinematography by James Longley.
- StarsLeif AndersSam MercurioKarl OtterThe historical drama details the Roman military campaigns against the barbarians. It shows how continuous wars depleted resources, a key factor in the fall of the Empire.
- DirectorMarie-Monique RobinStarsDavid BakerKen CookDavid CarpenterYou do not have to believe that God exists, but you will after this movie know that the devil poster! Monsanto is the largest global company that produces agricultural products: pesticides, hormones in raising animals, and genetically modified soybean seeds, corn and other crops. Monsanto has made some of the toxins that are responsible for many diseases, cancer, dementia and the rules are and say Napalm was used in the Vietnam War or PCB oils of which turned out to be a carcinogen as a small atomic bomb.
- DirectorPaul NelsonStarsEric Meyers
- DirectorAndrew PiddingtonStarsDanny GloverThe made-for-cable documentary film The Real Eve is predicated on the theory that the human race can be traced to a common ancestor. The mitochondrial DNA of one prehistoric woman, who lived in Africa, has according to this theory been passed down from generation to generation over a span of 150,000 years, supplying the "chemical energy" to all humankind.
- DirectorNigel PatersonStarsJohn HurtAdapted from the multi-award winning BBC1 series, Planet Dinosaur Ultimate Killers recreates the lost world of the dinosaurs in a groundbreaking stereoscopic production.
- StarsNiall FergusonGareth ArmstrongRichard LinternNiall Ferguson takes us on a historical adventure through the ascent of money, applying fact and opinion throughout.
- DirectorDavid DuganStarsStuart AltmannHarrison FordBert HölldoblerNarrated by Harrison Ford. At age 78, E.O. Wilson is still going through his 'little savage' phase of boyhood exploration of the natural world. NOVA profiles this soft-spoken Southerner and Professor Emeritus at Harvard, who is an acclaimed advocate for ants, biological diversity, and the controversial extension of Darwinian ideas to human society.
- DirectorFrancisco MansoStarsIvo CanelasMaria João BastosNicolau BreynerThe story about the last man to be sentenced to death in Portugal.
- StarsSteve JacobsBeau WeaverMichael MassiminoTravel through the universe to explore the really big questions. Is there life on other planets? Just how big was the Big Bang? What would traveling at "warp speed" really look like? Could wormholes make time travel a reality? Could life on earth survive another huge meteor strike like the one that took out the dinosaurs?
- The technological legacy of inventor and visionary Nikola Tesla, often referred to as "the father of the 20th century".
- DirectorMark MarabellaStarsJeffrey L. BadaDavid DeamerRushmore DeNooyerFrom Hawaii's volcanoes to Greenland's glaciers to meteorites in Australia, teams of international scientists race to solve the mystery of how life first formed on Earth.
- DirectorKelly NyksStarsTucker CarlsonAl FrankenNorman OrnsteinPart road movie, part political investigation, a coast to coast adventure to find the truth about the red/blue divide in America today. World Premiere AFI DALLAS 2008.
- StarsJonathan FrakesBrooks A. AgnewSteve WyrickFrom Invisibility, to Mind Control to Robot Soldiers, in the 21st century, scientists around the world are working to make the impossible... possible.
- StarsLiam NeesonChris LarkinMark TandyThis magazine-style documentary outlines biological evolution through a variety of dramatizations and data delivered by expert testimony.
- StarsKevin DeonStephen M. KajiuraThe world is full of fascinating animals which come in a multitude of species. But how did these species evolve? What features do they have that makes them different? This series investigates different anatomical features which animals have evolved over millions of years.
- 1985– 2h 35mTV-148.1 (226)TV EpisodeDirectorKevin BrownlowDavid GillStarsRoy AitkenLindsay AndersonWilliam BakewellBrilliant pioneer of the feature film and discoverer of Hollywood - yet some say he single-handedly re-awakened the Ku Klux Klan.
- DirectorRobert KennerStarsMichael PollanEric SchlosserRichard LobbAn unflattering look inside America's corporate controlled food industry.
- StarsFrank FinlayEnrique ListerRamón Serrano SúñerDocumentary series which uses film and eyewitness accounts from both sides of the conflict that divided Spain in the years leading up to World War Two, also placing it in its international context.
- StarsBray PoorLinda J. SpilkerTodd BarberA travel guide to the very alien planets of our Solar System.
- DirectorTracy AtkinsonJoan BaranDave FlittonStarsPatrick AllenMadjid BlavatskyRudolf GorslebenThis chilling series traces the occult origins of the Nazi party and follows them through to the death of the evil figure at its very heart.
- DirectorGabriella PollettaStarsEric Meyers
- DirectorJonathan BarkerStarsEric Meyers
- StarsAlice RobertsJeffrey RoseClive FinlaysonThis series explains the evidence for the theory of early human migrations out of Africa and subsequently around the world, supporting the Out of Africa Theory.
- StarsAdam RutherfordDr Adam Rutherford tells the extraordinary story of the scientific quest to discover the secrets of the cell and of life itself. Every living thing is made of cells, microscopic building blocks of almost unimaginable power and complexity.
- DirectorTony GerberStarsJonathan CohenJoshua GreeneRodd HoustonNational Geographic investigates the psychological and neurobiological basis for evil.
- DirectorThomas Lucas
- DirectorYavar AbbasStarsReg E. CatheyPaul EssiembreAnimated film showing the making of Planet Earth from rocks and dust to our current home, beginning 4.5 billion years ago. Explains the clash with planet Thea, creation of oxygen, initial life underwater and stromatolites. Initial plate tectonics, Snowball earth and the first continents of Rhodinia and Gondwana.
- DirectorAlex WilliamsonStarsEric Meyers
- StarsJay O. SandersRecent archaeological research begins to reveal how a small number of Spanish fortune hunters could conquer the mighty Inca Empira. The evidences calls into question the accepted story of the conquest recorded by Spanish scribes. More likely, the Spanish were aided by native allies rebelling against Inca rule.
- DirectorAlan LoweryJohn PilgerStarsJohn PilgerStuart EwenMelvin GoodmanThought-provoking documentary on war propaganda: how governments manipulate the facts and how most media let them get away with it.
- DirectorThierry de LestradeStarsAnnette RizzoRex WeylerBarbara StoweAlthough powerful now, at the start Greenpeace was just a small group of hippies, motivated by their vision of a green and peaceful world. Through unpublished archive footage and interviews with Greenpeace's founders, this extraordinary documentary takes an in-depth, first hand look into the organization that has become synonymous with the ecological movement.
- StarsMarcus du SautoyEleanor RobsonLeonhard EulerThe history of mathematics from ancient times to the present day. Narrated by Oxford mathematics professor Marcus du Sautoy, the series covers the seminal moments and people in the development of maths.
- DirectorDouglas CohenStarsCorey BurtonAlex FilippenkoPeter WardA rapid-fire history of our world, from the beginning of time as we know it to present day. This two-hour CGI-driven special delves into the key turning points: the formation of earth, emergence of life, spread of man and the growth of civilization--and reveals their surprising connections to our world today.
- StarsJosh BrolinRichard MachowiczJames MeigsFrom the power of science to how physics and biology combined to shape our shared journey, experience the human story like it's never been told before.
- DirectorMaire TraceyStarsMichael Izquierdo
- George Orwell. Susan Sontag. Sigmund Freud. Margaret Mead. These giants and dozens more appeared in BBC interviews, documentaries, and films, offering insights on their work and their world. This remarkable compilation gathers archival footage--much of it available for the first time since its original airing--featuring some of the greatest minds of the 20th century. The collection includes rarities such as the only surviving voice recording of Virginia Woolf, J.R.R. Tolkien reading in his invented Elvish language, disquieting footage of participants in Stanley Milgram's experiments in the human capacity for cruelty, and Jane Goodall discovering behavioral links between humans and chimpanzees. As a real-life compilation of historic moments, it's beyond compare; as an overview of the social and political forces of the 20th century, it's compelling viewing and an exceptional glimpse of the geniuses who have shaped the modern world.
- DirectorNick GreenStarsBernard HillAnnette BadlandBrian CoxAs Albert Einstein lay on his deathbed, he asked only for his glasses, his writing implements and his latest equations. He knew he was dying, yet he continued his work. In those final hours of his life, while fading in and out of consciousness, he was working on what he hoped would be his greatest work of all. It was a project of monumental complexity. It was a project that he hoped would unlock the mind of God.
- DirectorTim LambertNeanderthals are the closest relative to modern humans - and the most misunderstood. Once dismissed as backward brutes, now the question is whether they interbred with our ancestors and so whether we are all in part Neanderthal The answers may come from the Neanderthal Genome Project - the sequencing of the genome of a species that has been extinct for 30,000 years. If successful, the results could reveal not just who the Neanderthals really were but whether their genes live on, inside of us. This is an evolutionary detective story that travels to the key sites across Europe, meets the world's leading experts and follows the painstaking progress of the genetic sequencing. Based on the evidence, drama reconstruction brings back to life the Neanderthal world as never before.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughA nature documentary series written and presented by David Attenborough, that looks at the evolution and habits of amphibians and reptiles.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughDavid Attenborough's comprehensive and richly detailed study of birds, examining the variety of different species and their ways of life.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughDavid Attenborough's comprehensive study of how a remarkable group of animals evolved - a group that includes ourselves.
- DirectorFrances CauseyDonald GoldmacherStarsElizabeth WarrenNomi PrinsFranklin D. RooseveltHeist: Who Stole the American Dream? reveals how American corporations orchestrated the dismantling of middle-class prosperity through rampant deregulation, the outsourcing of jobs, and tax policies favoring businesses and the wealthy. The collapse of the U.S. economy is the result of conscious choices made over thirty five years by a small group: leaders of corporations and their elected allies, and the biggest lobbying interest in Washington, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. To these individuals, the collapse is not a catastrophe, but rather the planned outcome of their long, patient work. For the rest of the country, it is merely the biggest heist in American history.
- StarsMilton FriedmanRobert McKenzieThomas SowellThis was originally a book, made into a ten part television series broadcast on PBS by economists Milton and Rose Friedman that advocates free market principles. The thrust of the series is that the free market works best for all members of society. It provides examples of how the free market engenders prosperity and maintains that it can solve problems where other approaches have failed. The general format is Dr Friedman visiting and narrating a number of success and failure stories in history, which Dr Friedman attributes to capitalism or the lack thereof. The series is highly informative and interesting as Dr Friedman describes the various government interventions and "solutions" that generally do far more harm than good.
- DirectorRoss AshcroftStarsDominic FrisbyGillian TettLawrence WilkersonThe modern day Four Horsemen continue to ride roughshod over the people who can least afford it. Crises are converging when governments, religion and mainstream economists have stalled. 23 international thinkers come together and break their silence about how the world really works and why there is still hope in re-establishing a moral and just society. Four Horsemen is free from mainstream media propaganda, doesn't bash bankers, criticize politicians or get involved in conspiracy theories. The film ignites the debate about how we usher a new economic paradigm into the world which, globally, would dramatically improve the quality of life for billions.
- StarsChristy KenneallyThis program travels back thousands of years to the rise and fall of five ancient civilizations - the Egyptians, Greeks, Celts, Romans and Incas - to reveal the mysteries behind their ancient Gods.
- StarsTom McCamusDavid MallottDarius AryaThis documentary explores some of the psychological behaviors regarding the world's most infamous celebrities in the ancient world, while utilizing modern scientific techniques to explain their actions.
- DirectorSally AitkenStarsTom McCamusA documentary highlighting the technological and cultural advantages given to one of the last nomadic empires: the Mughals.