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A Birder's Guide to Everything

A Birder's Guide to Everything

Teenaged birding fanatic David Portnoy takes an epic road trip with his best friends to solidify their place in birding history.

Beartrek

Beartrek

This documentary takes a look at the world's wild places through the eyes of bears.

Twilight of the Mississippi

Twilight of the Mississippi

Theater troupe the Unseen Ghost Brigade builds a raft in 2010 and journeys down the Mississippi River.

Jens Jensen The Living Green

Jens Jensen The Living Green

Unsung pioneer landscape architect Jens Jensen became one of the nation’s most influential urban designers and early conservationists, shaping the Midwest’s physical and cultural landscape and championing the need for nature in our cities.

Til Sbórnia do us Part

Til Sbórnia do us Part

Sbórnia is an isolated, independent, and anarchist state. When the giant wall that separates Sbórnia from the rest of the world collapses, the Sbórnians suffer a towering cultural shock.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

Chasing Mavericks

Chasing Mavericks

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

Bestiaire

Bestiaire

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

Lost Rivers

Lost Rivers

As climate changes forces us to reconsider the relationship between the built environment and our natural resources, LOST RIVERS brings to life an aspect of urban ecology that has long been kept secret.

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.

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.

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.

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?

Moonrise Kingdom

Moonrise Kingdom

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

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.

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.

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.