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Birders: The Central Park Effect

Birders: The Central Park Effect

A diverse group of full-of-attitude New Yorkers reveals how a hidden world of beautiful wild birds in the middle of Manhattan has upended and magically transformed their lives.

Lost and Sound

Lost and Sound

This documentary explores the adaptive power of the brain and the impact technological advances can have in the lives of three individuals with hearing loss. 

The Innkeepers

The Innkeepers

During the final days at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, two employees determined to reveal the hotel's haunted past begin to experience disturbing events as odd guests check in for a stay.

Of Dolls and Murder

Of Dolls and Murder

An exploration of the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, murder-scene dioramas intended as training tools for detectives in the 1930s and '40s.

Asteroid Impacts: How Hollywood Misses Reality

Asteroid Impacts: How Hollywood Misses Reality

A look at the reality and fiction behind Hollywood's representation of asteroid impacts.

Future Weather

Future Weather

When her single mom runs off to California, Laudurée, a passionate environmentalist, clings to her rural home and a carbon sequestration experiment.

Last Call at the Oasis

Last Call at the Oasis

Erin Brockovich, Robert Glennon, and Jay Famiglietti are among those interviewed in Jessica Yu's investigation of the world's looming water shortage.

In the Garden of Sounds

In the Garden of Sounds

A portrait of the musician, therapist and sound researcher Wolfgang Fasser, who lost his sight as a teenager.

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Faced with both her hot-tempered father's fading health and melting ice-caps that flood her ramshackle bayou community and unleash ancient aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy must learn the ways of courage and love.

Moonrise Kingdom

Moonrise Kingdom

A pair of young lovers flee their New England town, sparking a frenzied search by the town's quirky inhabitants.

The Last Ocean

The Last Ocean

The race to protect Earth's last untouched ocean—the Ross Sea in Antarctica—from our insatiable appetite for fish. The film raises the simple ethical question: do we fish the last ocean or do we protect it?

Robot & Frank

Robot & Frank

In the near future, an ex-jewel thief receives a gift from his son: a robot butler programmed to look after him. But soon the two companions try their luck as a heist team.

Sleepwalk with Me

Sleepwalk with Me

A burgeoning stand-up comedian struggles with the stress of a stalled career, a stale relationship, and the wild spurts of severe sleepwalking he is desperate to ignore.

Pitch Perfect

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.

Bestiaire

Bestiaire

Bestiaire is a mesmerizing meditation on the relationships between animals and people through the seasons at a Quebec safari park.

Chasing Mavericks

Chasing Mavericks

A young surfer learns the secrets of surviving the towering waves of the infamous Mavericks surf break.

Math=Magic: How Science Powers Pixar’s Animation

Math=Magic: How Science Powers Pixar’s Animation

Tony DeRose, senior scientist and research group lead at Pixar Animation Studios, delivers an illustrated lecture on the extraordinary contribution of mathematics to animated films.

The Singularity

The Singularity

Within the coming decades we will be able to create computers with greater-than-human intelligence, bio-engineer our species, and redesign matter through nanotechnology. How will these technologies change what it means to be human?

Wreck-It Ralph

Wreck-It Ralph

A video game villain wants to be a hero and sets out to fulfill his dream, but his quest brings havoc to the whole arcade where he lives.

Chasing Ice

Chasing Ice

Follow National Geographic photographer James Balog across the Arctic as he deploys time-lapse cameras designed for one purpose: to capture a multi-year record of the world's changing glaciers.

The Sessions

The Sessions

A man in an iron lung who wishes to lose his virginity contacts a professional sex surrogate with the help of his therapist and priest.

Life of Pi

Life of Pi

A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger.

Trashed

Trashed

Jeremy Irons sets out to discover the extent and effects of the global waste problem, as he travels around the world to beautiful destinations tainted by pollution.

Silver Linings Playbook

Silver Linings Playbook

After a stint in a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solatano moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things get more challenging when Pat meets Tiffany, a mysterious girl with problems of her own.