Films
This Changes Everything
A look at seven communities around the world with the proposition that we can seize the crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better.
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Filmmakers Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, Wes Anderson, and others discuss the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock and the influential book "Hitchcock" by François Truffaut.
Concussion
In Pittsburgh, accomplished pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu uncovers the truth about brain damage in football players who suffer repeated concussions in the course of normal play.
My Love Affair with the Brain: The Life and Science of Dr. Marian Diamond
The story of a woman whose paradigm-changing research helped launch modern neuroscience and redefined our understanding of the brain.
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.
Between Earth and Sky: Climate Change on the Last Frontier
A documentary exploring climate change in Alaska, the state hardest hit by global warming to date, and how what is happening there will soon affect us all.
Operator
When a programmer is hired to create the ideal personality for an automated call center, his attempts to quantify what it means to be human throws his life into chaos.
Fastball
Baseball legends and scientists explore the magic within the 396 milliseconds it takes a fastball to reach home plate, and decipher who threw the fastest pitch ever.
I Voted
A documentary examining the capture and counting of ballots in elections in the United States.
One Big Home
A carpenter on Martha's Vineyard takes off his tool belt and picks up a camera to document—and fight—the incursion of massive seasonal homes that is changing the face of his island.
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 Nice Guys
In 1970s Los Angeles, a mismatched pair of private eyes investigate a missing girl and the mysterious death of a porn star.
Donna Haraway: Storytelling for Earthly Survival
An insightful glimpse into the thoughts of a contemporary feminist and revolutionary science historian Donna Haraway.
Bugs
Will eating insects save our Earth? A chef and a food lab researcher go globe-trotting to investigate edible insects.
Life, Animated
A coming-of-age story about a boy and his family who overcame great challenges by turning Disney animated movies into a language to express love, loss, kinship, and brotherhood.
Zero Days
A documentary focused on Stuxnet, a piece of self-replicating computer malware that the US and Israel unleashed to destroy a key part of an Iranian nuclear facility, and which ultimately spread beyond its intended target.
Captain Fantastic
In the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to leave his paradise and enter the world, challenging his idea of what it means to be a parent.
Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World
Filmmaker Werner Herzog examines the past, present, and future of the Internet and how it affects human interaction and modern society.
The Girl with All the Gifts
In the future, a strange fungus has changed nearly everyone into a thoughtless, flesh-eating monster. When a scientist and a teacher find a girl who seems to be immune to the fungus, they all begin a journey to save humanity.
Minute Bodies: The Intimate World of F. Percy Smith
A tribute to the work of naturalist and filmmaker F. Percy Smith, who worked in the early 20th-century to develop various cinematographic and micro-photographic techniques to capture nature's secrets in action.