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Founded in 1934, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is a philanthropic, not-for-profit grant making institution based in New York City. Sloan's program in Public Understanding of Science, Technology & Economics supports various media to commission, develop, produce, and distribute new work mainstreaming science and technology to reach a wide, non-specialized audience. Watch award-winning Sloan short films here.

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Cartographer Will Shepard hits the road for his latest job: to create a new, more accurate satellite survey of Armenia. During his assignment, he forms a bond with an Armenian expatriate and art photographer.

Grizzly Man

Grizzly Man

A devastating and heartrending take on grizzly bear activists Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard, who were killed in October of 2003 while living among grizzlies in Alaska.

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.

Flash of Genius

Flash of Genius

Robert Kearns takes on the Detroit automakers who he claims stole his idea for the intermittent windshield wiper.

First Man

First Man

The riveting story of NASA’s mission to land a man on the moon, focusing on Neil Armstrong and the cost—on Armstrong, his family, his colleagues, the nation—of one of the most dangerous missions in history.

Father of the Cyborgs

Father of the Cyborgs

A neurologist known as "the father of cyborgs" confronts the ethical quandaries of self-experimentation and a future where human brains and technology combine.

Experimenter

Experimenter

In 1961, famed social psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted a series of radical behavior experiments that tested ordinary humans willingness to obey authority.

Enigma

Enigma

A young genius frantically races against time to crack an enemy code and solve the mystery surrounding the woman he loves.

Embrace of the Serpent

Embrace of the Serpent

The story of the relationship between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his people, and two scientists who work together over the course of 40 years to search the Amazon for a sacred healing plant.

Druid Peak

Druid Peak

A troubled teen is sent to live with his estranged father, a park ranger at Yellowstone National Park. During his time there, he develops an unusual affinity with and passion for the wolves in a local pack.

Dopamine

Dopamine

A San Franciscan computer programmer falls in love with one of his creations in the days after the dot-com boom.

Don't Look Up

Don't Look Up

Two low-level astronomers must go on a giant media tour to warn mankind of an approaching comet that will destroy planet Earth.

    Decoding Annie Parker

    Decoding Annie Parker

    Love, science, sex, infidelity, disease, and comedy: the wild, mostly true story of the irrepressible Annie Parker and the almost discovery of a cure for cancer.

    Dark Matter

    Dark Matter

    Based on actual events, a Chinese university student responds violently when his chances for a Nobel Prize are dashed by school politics.

    Computer Chess

    Computer Chess

    A 1980s-set story centered around a man-versus-machine chess tournament.

    Coded Bias

    Coded Bias

    An exploration of the implications of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that racial bias is written into the code of facial recognition algorithms.

    Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

    Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

    This documentary reveals the Hedy Lamarr hidden behind the famously beautiful Hollywood star's glamorous image: a technological trailblazer whose inventions form the basis of modern WiFi, GPS, and Bluetooth systems.

    BlackBerry

    BlackBerry

    The story of the meteoric rise and catastrophic demise of the world's first smartphone.

      Beneath Hill 60

      Beneath Hill 60

      In 1916, the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company is tunneling beneath German fortifications and bunkers to detonate massive explosive charges.

      Basmati Blues

      Basmati Blues

      A scientist creates genetically modified rice and is sent India to sell it to rural farmers.

      Another Earth

      Another Earth

      On the night of the discovery of a duplicate Earth in the Solar System, an ambitious young student and an accomplished composer cross paths in a tragic accident.

      Ammonite

      Ammonite

      Acclaimed paleontologist Mary Anning works alone selling common fossils to tourists to support her ailing mother, but a chance job offer changes her life when a visitor hires her to care for his wife.

      Agora

      Agora

      In Roman Egypt toward the end of the fourth century AD, a slave turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hope of finding freedom while also falling in love with his master, the great female astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria.

      After Yang

      After Yang

      In a near future, a family reckons with questions of love, connection, and loss after their A.I. helper unexpectedly breaks down.