Films
Physics and Fastballs: The Science of Baseball
Why is a curveball curved? What makes the sweet spot so sweet? Why do outfielders instinctively run in an arc instead of a straight line? And why have some physicists stated that, at least on paper, hitting a home run is impossible?
Pi
A paranoid mathematician searches for a key number that will unlock the universal patterns found in nature.
Picture a Scientist
Through their personal stories and thoroughly researched data, three scientists discuss the deeply entrenched problems of sexual harassment and gender inequality against women that are no less prevalent in science than they are in pop culture and corporate America.
Pineapple Express
A stoner's enjoyment of a rare strain of marijuana may prove fatal when he drops his roach at a murder scene. Learning that the fancy weed can be traced back to them, he and his dealer go on the lam, with a dangerous drug lord and crooked cop hot on their heels.
Piranha
When flesh-eating piranhas are accidentally released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.
Pitch Perfect
After freshman Beca is cajoled into joining her college's all-girls singing group, she injects much needed energy into their repertoire as they take on their male rivals.
Planet of the Apes
An astronaut crew crash lands on a planet in the distant future where intelligent talking apes are the dominant species, and humans are the oppressed and enslaved.
Planetary
Planetary presents a stunning visual portrait of our Earth, from the African savanna to the Himalayas, and from the heart of Tokyo to the view of our fragile planet in orbit.
Polyester
A suburban housewife's world falls apart when she finds that her pornographer husband is serially unfaithful to her, her daughter is pregnant, and her son is suspected of being the foot-fetishist who's been breaking local women's feet.
Ponyo
This animated adventure follows a five-year-old boy and his relationship with Ponyo, a goldfish princess who longs to become human after falling in love with him.
Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time
A neurosurgeon falls in love, leaving her shining American career behind to start a new life.
Primate
Filmmaker Frederick Wiseman follows scientists as they study the physical and mental development of primates.
Primer
Four friends and fledgling entrepreneurs, knowing that there's something bigger and more innovative than the different error-checking devices they've built, wrestle over their new invention.
Prince of Darkness
A research team finds a mysterious cylinder in a deserted church. If opened, it could mean the end of the world.
Project Nim
Project Nim tells the story of a chimpanzee taken from its mother at birth and raised like a human child by a family in a brownstone in the Upper West Side during the 1970s.
Project: Ice
This documentary offers a view of North America's freshwater inland ocean through the prism of ice.
Psycho
A Phoenix secretary steals $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
Puffin Rock and the New Friends
Oona and her friends embark on a race against time before a big storm hits Puffin Rock and puts the island in danger.
Pulse
Japanese university students investigate a series of suicides linked to an Internet webcam that promises visitors the chance to interact with the dead.
Purple Rain
A young musician, tormented by abuse at home, contends with a rival singer, a burgeoning romance, and his own dissatisfied band as his star begins to rise.
Quantum Cowboys
Hapless drifters Frank and Bruno team up with Linde to recover her land and find an elusive frontier musician.
Radium Girls
When mysterious ailments strike a dial painter at American Radium, a dark truth emerges: She is not the first in the watch factory to fall ill. Her sister's legal fight against the corporation in 1928 launched workplace safety reforms and closer study of the dangers of radioactivity.