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Our Time Machine

Our Time Machine

An artist losing his father to dementia attempts to capture their shared memories through a stage show performed by fantastical life-sized puppets.

Oliver Sacks: His Own Life

Oliver Sacks: His Own Life

A documentary exploring the life of neurologist and best-selling author Oliver Sacks—an old-fashioned polymath and natural historian who redefined our understanding of brain and mind.

Microplastic Madness

Microplastic Madness

Can 11 year-olds take on plastic pollution?

Perfumes (Les Parfums)

Perfumes (Les Parfums)

A talented and temperamental creator of world-class perfumes begins having trouble with her sense of smell, leading her to seek help from an unlikely source in order to restart her esteemed career as a "professional nose."

Anthropocene: The Human Epoch

Anthropocene: The Human Epoch

Filmmakers travel to six continents and 20 countries to document the impact humans have made on the planet.

Born to Be

Born to Be

The emotional and physical journey of surgical transitioning after New York state passed the law that health insurance should cover transgender-related care and services.

The Aeronauts

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.

Fantastic Fungi

Fantastic Fungi

The magical world of fungi and their power to heal, sustain and contribute to the regeneration of life on Earth.

Stuffed

Stuffed

An exploration of the surprising world of taxidermists: passionate artists who push creative boundaries while revealing the importance of preserving nature.

Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound

Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound

An examination of how sound design transforms the cinematic experience, and an exploration of the cutting edge of sound technology.

Cowboys: A Documentary Portrait

Cowboys: A Documentary Portrait

A look at the lives of working cowboys on America's largest cattle ranches—including their connection to a storied past and the challenges they face in the future.

2040

2040

Concerned about his young daughter's future, filmmaker Damon Gameau travels the world to meet innovators and changemakers finding new approaches and solutions to climate change.

The Pollinators

The Pollinators

Migratory beekeepers and their truckloads of honey bees travel the U.S. pollinating the flowers that become the fruits, nuts, and vegetables we eat.

Ailo: Une Odysée en Laponie (Ailo: A Reindeer's Journey)

Ailo: Une Odysée en Laponie (Ailo: A Reindeer's Journey)

Ailo, a newborn reindeer, embarks on an incredible odyssey with the help of his mother.

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.

The Social Dilemma

The Social Dilemma

Tech experts sound the alarm on the dangerous human impact of social networking.

Tesla

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.

Dope is Death

Dope is Death

Dr. Mutulu Shakur, stepfather of Tupac Shakur, along with fellow Black Panthers and the Young Lords, combines community health with radical politics to create the first acupuncture detoxification program in America in 1973—a visionary project eventually deemed too dangerous to exist.

Human Nature

Human Nature

CRISPR gene-editing technology opens the door to correcting, even designing, DNA. But should we walk through it?

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Picture a Scientist

Picture a Scientist

Through their personal stories and thoroughly researched data, three scientists discuss the deeply entrenched problems of sexual harassment and gender inequality against women that are no less prevalent in science than they are in pop culture and corporate America.

Kiss the Ground

Kiss the Ground

Activists, scientists, farmers and politicians turn to regenerative agriculture to save the planet's topsoil.

Spaceship Earth

Spaceship Earth

In 1991, eight visionaries embark on a two-year experiment to quarantine themselves inside Biosphere 2—a self-engineered replica of Earth's ecosystem.

Adventures of a Mathematician

Adventures of a Mathematician

Polish immigrant and mathematician Stan Ulam helps create the hydrogen bomb and the first computer.