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A Brief History of Time is, of course, based on Stephen Hawking’s seminal work. It attempts to explain almost everything from black holes, to E=MC2. This is for anyone who wants to sound like the smartest guy or girl in the room – it’s a fantastic documentary that is based on one of the greatest

It has long been considered the most compelling question in our history: Where do human beings come from? Although life has existed for millions of years, only in the past century-and-a-half have we begun to use science to explore the ancestral roots of our own species. The search for the ultimate answer has taken a

Was there really, 12,000 years ago, a fabulous island city whose people had already evolved all the trappings of civilization – sophisticated culture and society, writing, astronomy, religion, monument-building – while everyone else was still living in the Stone Age?

This is the breathtaking story of Daniel Tammet. A twenty-something with extraordinary mental abilities, Daniel is one of the world’s few savants. He can do calculations to 100 decimal places in his head, and learn a language in a week. This documentary follows Daniel as he travels to America to meet the scientists who are

Rough cut to the feature film about AI, robots, the singularity, and the 21st century.

In this one-off documentary, David Malone looks at four brilliant mathematicians – Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing – whose genius has profoundly affected us, but which tragically drove them insane and eventually led to them all committing suicide.

A very, very sad and powerful documentary about the real life and death of two twin boys – one that became a girl against his will. This is a very famous psychology experiment gone horribly wrong at a human cost. Biology does what biology wants to do, as we learn the hard way in this

The rise of Ecstasy is a major event in drug history. If current trends continue, 1.8 million Americans will try Ecstasy for the first time in 2004; only marijuana will attract more new users. Overwhelming, positive word of mouth has made Ecstasy a nightmare for drug controllers. On a special edition of ‘Primetime Thursday’ Peter

The story of animal evolution is marked by key innovations such as limbs for walking on land, wings for flight, and color patterns for advertising or concealment. How do new traits arise? Sean B. Carroll, Ph.D. explores how new patterns evolve when ‘old’ genes learn new tricks. Old genes learning new tricks also apply to

Based on Jared Diamond’s critically acclaimed book by the same name, ‘Guns, Germs, and Steel’, this documentary attempts to discover the reasons for inequality that spans the globe. This is no small task by any means and Diamond travels across four continents and gets opinions from a wealth of scientists, historians, and archeologists.

In the last in the series Professor Jim Al-Khalili explores how studying the atom forced us to rethink the nature of reality itself. He discovers that there might be parallel universes in which different versions of us exist, finds out that empty space isn’t empty at all, and investigates the differences in our perception of

On Sunday, 17 December 1995, viewers in U.K. saw an hour-long T V. program which, at long last, puts across the clear message that “free energy” is on the way. In the opening stages Arthur C. Clarke explained how there were four stages in the way scientists react to the development of anything of a

There are two approaches to mathematical infinity. It can be seen as defining limiting cases that can never be realized or as existing in some philosophical sense. These mathematical approaches parallel approaches to meaning and value that I call absolutist and evolutionary. The absolutist sees ultimate meaning as something that exists most commonly in the

Psychology experiments similar to the stanford prison experiment.

Prescription for Disaster is an in-depth investigation into the symbiotic relationships between the pharmaceutical industry, the FDA, … all » lobbyists, lawmakers, medical schools, and researchers, and the impact this has on consumers and their health care. During this thorough investigation, we take a close look at patented drugs, why they are so readily prescribed

“Documentary from Channel 4 shown in 1994 about the infamous ‘UFO Crash’ at Roswell in 1947.”

‘A masterful documentary it cracks on at a tremendous pace. A subject that at first seems too ridiculous to contemplate leaves you nodding in agreement … I always thought there was something suspicious about NASA’s attitude to UFOs. Now I know why.’ – Jason Cooney, K-Drive Radio, Los Angeles.

Here is a 10 part documentary featuring different aspects of the human brain. Different topics discussed include Fear, Stress, Sex, Pleasure vs Reason, Psychopaths, Memory, and more! This History Channel documentary, The Brain, delves right into our brains and gives us a wide array of information of how it works.

The God Delusion explores the unproven beliefs that are treated as factual by many religions and the extremes to which some followers have taken them. Dawkins opens the programme by describing the “would-be murderers . . . who want to kill you and me, and themselves, because they’re motivated by what they think is the

The Root of All Evil? is a television documentary, written and presented by Richard Dawkins, in which he argues that the world would be better off without religion. The documentary was first broadcast in January 2006, in the form of two 45-minute episodes (excluding advertisement breaks), on Channel 4 in the UK. Dawkins has said

“The official denial and the ridicule began in 1942 with the Battle of Los Angeles, where a UFO was fired upon by our military that could not bring it down. The release of this film brings an end to over sixty years of official denial.”

For years scientists have been trying to find the mysterious evolutionary master key responsible for transforming the dinosaurs into world-beaters. In the early Jurassic, 200 million years ago, they were a relatively small group of primitive creatures. By the late Jurassic, 50 million years later, they had become the magnificent array of carnivores and giant

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 century, we are going to make the historic transition from the ‘Age of Discovery’ to the ‘Age of Mastery’, a period in which we

National Geographic documentary.Documenting the effects meth has on the human body and mind.

A 30 minute documentary explaining history and development of Quantum Mechanics, its philosophical interpretations, and Einstein’s distaste for the subject.

Back in 1996, electric cars were the real buzz. You’d see them cruising down the streets quietly without any exhaust fumes coming out the back. Ten years later, these cars were destroyed and have become a thing of the past. What ever happened to the electric car? Watch “Who Killed the Electric Car?” and see