A mild-mannered FBI chemist must team up with a dangerous ex-con—the only person ever to escape "The Rock"— to lead the counterstrike when a renegade general and his men threaten a nerve gas attack from Alcatraz against San Francisco.

An estranged family of former child prodigies reunites when their father announces he is terminally ill.

Inspired by the photography of legendary explorer Brad Washburn, three friends traverse some of Alaska's most challenging peaks.

A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is love-struck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.

Journey from the depths of the Pacific Ocean into the far reaches of space on a quest to find something that changes everything... signs of life, somewhere else in the universe.

To save her ill son, a field mouse must seek the aid of a mysterious colony of rats, with whom she has a deeper link than she ever suspected.

A tiny teen and her family live under a the floorboards of a house and survive by borrowing items from the home's human inhabitants.

How did the willful daughter of a Himalayan forest guard become Monsanto's worst nightmare?

A band of young scientists discovers a radical new theory of the natural world, one that could help confront some of the biggest environmental challenges of our time.

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.

Ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin races to save the rich medicinal lore that is the inheritance of the shamans of the tribes of the Northeast Amazon. The future of such knowledge is uncertain, as these cultures find themselves as endangered as the forest around them.

A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil presence slowly drives the father insane.

A young FBI cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims.

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?

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

Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, but is later sued by two brothers, who claim he stole their idea, and the co-founder who was squeezed out of the business.

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.

Explores the experiences of the first Black astronauts through decades of archive film and interviews in a reflective illumination on the burden of breaking barriers.

Charles 'Slim' Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing.

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.

A private detective investigates a new consumer taste treat that's absolutely delicious and just possibly lethal.

France, 1889: Simmering passions between a master chef and his longtime partner bubble over in this sumptuous award-winning period love story.

A look at the relationship between the famous physicist Stephen Hawking and his wife.

Scientists in Antarctica are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people it kills.