Films
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.
![Whaling City](/assets/films/_600x338_crop_top-center_75_none/Whaling-City.jpg)
Whaling City
An independent commercial fisherman must fight to save his boat, his livelihood, and his way of life.
![Vishniac](/assets/films/_600x338_crop_top-center_75_none/vishniac.jpeg)
Vishniac
Difficult and flamboyant, Roman Vishniac captured iconic images of Jewish life, from the cafes of pre-war Berlin to the shtetls of Eastern Europe. But it would be up to his daughter to preserve his legacy.
![Valley of Saints](/assets/films/_600x338_crop_top-center_75_none/Valley-of-Saints.jpg)
Valley of Saints
War and poverty force two men to flee Kashmir. But a military crackdown derails their escape. Waiting for conditions to change, they discover a mysterious woman, braving the curfew to research the dying lake.
![To Dust](/assets/films/_600x338_crop_top-center_75_none/To_Dust.jpg)
To Dust
A mourning Hasidic widower enlists a reluctant biology professor in his obsessive quest to understand what exactly will happen to his young wife's body as it returns to dust.
![Theatre of Thought](/assets/films/_600x338_crop_top-center_75_none/Theatre-of-Thought-sos.jpg)
Theatre of Thought
Werner Herzog shows off his fascination with the human brain in his latest documentary.
![The Stanford Prison Experiment](/assets/films/_600x338_crop_top-center_75_none/Stanford-Prison.jpg)
The Stanford Prison Experiment
In 1971, Stanford Professor Philip Zimbardo conducts a controversial psychology experiment in which college students pretend to be either prisoners or guards, but the proceedings soon get out of hand.
![The Sound of Silence](/assets/films/_600x338_crop_top-center_75_none/Sound_of_Silence.jpg)
The Sound of Silence
A successful "house tuner" in New York City, who calibrates the sound in people's homes in order to adjust their moods, meets a client with a problem he can't solve.
![The Pod Generation](/assets/films/_600x338_crop_top-center_75_none/the-pod-generation.jpeg)
The Pod Generation
A New York couple's wild ride to parenthood involves a new tool developed by a tech giant, Pegazus.
![The Martian](/assets/films/_600x338_crop_top-center_75_none/The-Martian.jpg)
The Martian
When astronauts mistakenly leave Mark Watney behind on Mars, the stranded visitor must use his wits, spirit, and scientific know-how to find a way to survive on the hostile planet.
![The Man Who Knew Infinity](/assets/films/_600x338_crop_top-center_75_none/the-man-who-knew-infinity.jpg)
The Man Who Knew Infinity
A true story based on the life of math genius Srinivasa Ramanujan and Professor G.H. Hardy, who recognized Ramanujan’s brilliance despite the latter’s lack of formal training and education.
![The Imitation Game](/assets/films/_600x338_crop_top-center_75_none/The-Imitation-Game.jpg)
The Imitation Game
During World War II, mathematician Alan Turing tries to crack the enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians.
![The House of Tomorrow](/assets/films/_600x338_crop_top-center_75_none/House_of_Tomorrow.jpg)
The House of Tomorrow
A sheltered, socially-awkward teen living in a geodesic dome with his Buckminster Fuller-worshiping grandmother becomes friends with a green-haired heart transplant patient who introduces him to punk rock.
![The Fountain](/assets/films/_600x338_crop_top-center_75_none/The-Fountain.jpg)
The Fountain
As a modern-day scientist, Tommy is struggling with mortality, desperately searching for the medical breakthrough that will save the life of his cancer-stricken wife, Izzi.
![The Diving Bell and the Butterfly](/assets/films/_600x338_crop_top-center_75_none/The-Diving-Bell-and-the-Butterfly.jpg)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffers a stroke and has to live with an almost totally paralyzed body; only his left eye isn't paralyzed.
![The Catcher Was a Spy](/assets/films/_600x338_crop_top-center_75_none/Catcher_Was_a-_Spy.jpg)
The Catcher Was a Spy
The true story of Moe Berg: Major League Baseball player, Ivy League graduate, attorney who spoke nine languages...and top-secret spy who helped the U.S. beat Germany in the race to build the atomic bomb.
![The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind](/assets/films/_600x338_crop_top-center_75_none/Boy_Who_Harnessed_the_Wind.jpg)
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
A boy in Malawi helps save his village from famine by building a wind turbine after reading about them in a library book.
![The Bit Player](/assets/films/_600x338_crop_top-center_75_none/Bit_Player.jpg)
The Bit Player
A film about Claude Shannon, father of information theory: a playful genius whose name is largely unknown though his work revolutionized nearly every aspect of modern life.
![The Aeronauts](/assets/films/_600x338_crop_top-center_75_none/Aeronauts.jpg)
The Aeronauts
Balloon pilot Amelia Wren and meteorologist James Glaisher find themselves in a fight for survival while pursuing scientific discoveries in a gas balloon in the 1860s.
![Tesla](/assets/films/_600x338_crop_top-center_75_none/TESLA-2-sos-still.jpg)
Tesla
Through Promethean struggles, Nikola Tesla attempts to transcend entrenched technology—including his own previous work—by pioneering a system of wireless energy that will change the world.
![Teknolust](/assets/films/_600x338_crop_top-center_75_none/teknolust-2.jpeg)
Teknolust
A bio-geneticist has created a type of Self Replicating Automaton, which looks like a human being, but is in fact part machine and part living organism.
![Son of Monarchs (Hijo de Monarcas)](/assets/films/_600x338_crop_top-center_75_none/Son_of_Monarchs.jpg)
Son of Monarchs (Hijo de Monarcas)
A Mexican biologist's return from New York to his hometown near butterfly forests of Michoacán sparks a personal metamorphosis.
![Small, Beautifully Moving Parts](/assets/films/_600x338_crop_top-center_75_none/Small-Beautifully-Moving-Parts.jpg)
Small, Beautifully Moving Parts
While traveling to California to attend her baby shower, a pregnant woman takes a side trip to find her long-estranged mother.
![Sleep Dealer](/assets/films/_600x338_crop_top-center_75_none/Sleep-Dealer.jpg)
Sleep Dealer
The near future. Like tomorrow. In a world marked by closed borders, corporate warriors, and a global computer network, three strangers risk their lives to connect, break through the barriers of technology, and unseal their fates.