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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.

I Origins

I Origins

A molecular biologist and his laboratory partner uncover evidence that may fundamentally change society as we know it.

How to Survive a Pandemic

How to Survive a Pandemic

Chronicles the global race to research, develop, manufacture and distribute COVID-19 vaccines in the most enormous coordinated public health effort ever undertaken.

    House of Sand

    House of Sand

    In 1910, a woman is taken along with her mother to a far-away desert by her husband, and after his passing, is forced to spend the next 59 years of her life hopelessly trying to escape it.

    Hidden Figures

    Hidden Figures

    A team of African American women provide NASA with important mathematical data needed to launch the program's first successful space missions.

    Here

    Here

    Cartographer Will Shepard hits the road for his latest job: to create a new, more accurate satellite survey of Armenia. During his assignment, he forms a bond with an Armenian expatriate and art photographer.

    Grizzly Man

    Grizzly Man

    A devastating and heartrending take on grizzly bear activists Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard, who were killed in October of 2003 while living among grizzlies in Alaska.

    Future Weather

    Future Weather

    When her single mom runs off to California, Laudurée, a passionate environmentalist, clings to her rural home and a carbon sequestration experiment.

    Flash of Genius

    Flash of Genius

    Robert Kearns takes on the Detroit automakers who he claims stole his idea for the intermittent windshield wiper.

    First Man

    First Man

    The riveting story of NASA’s mission to land a man on the moon, focusing on Neil Armstrong and the cost—on Armstrong, his family, his colleagues, the nation—of one of the most dangerous missions in history.

    Father of the Cyborgs

    Father of the Cyborgs

    A neurologist known as "the father of cyborgs" confronts the ethical quandaries of self-experimentation and a future where human brains and technology combine.

    Experimenter

    Experimenter

    In 1961, famed social psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted a series of radical behavior experiments that tested ordinary humans willingness to obey authority.

    Enigma

    Enigma

    A young genius frantically races against time to crack an enemy code and solve the mystery surrounding the woman he loves.

    Embrace of the Serpent

    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.

    Druid Peak

    Druid Peak

    A troubled teen is sent to live with his estranged father, a park ranger at Yellowstone National Park. During his time there, he develops an unusual affinity with and passion for the wolves in a local pack.

    Dopamine

    Dopamine

    A San Franciscan computer programmer falls in love with one of his creations in the days after the dot-com boom.

    Don't Look Up

    Don't Look Up

    Two low-level astronomers must go on a giant media tour to warn mankind of an approaching comet that will destroy planet Earth.

      Decoding Annie Parker

      Decoding Annie Parker

      Love, science, sex, infidelity, disease, and comedy: the wild, mostly true story of the irrepressible Annie Parker and the almost discovery of a cure for cancer.

      Dark Matter

      Dark Matter

      Based on actual events, a Chinese university student responds violently when his chances for a Nobel Prize are dashed by school politics.

      Daniela Forever

      Daniela Forever

      A soulful bereaved man enrolls in a clinical trial for a drug that allows him to reunite with his lost lover through lucid dreams.

        Computer Chess

        Computer Chess

        A 1980s-set story centered around a man-versus-machine chess tournament.

        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.

        Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

        Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

        This documentary reveals the Hedy Lamarr hidden behind the famously beautiful Hollywood star's glamorous image: a technological trailblazer whose inventions form the basis of modern WiFi, GPS, and Bluetooth systems.

        BlackBerry

        BlackBerry

        The story of the meteoric rise and catastrophic demise of the world's first smartphone.

          Beneath Hill 60

          Beneath Hill 60

          In 1916, the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company is tunneling beneath German fortifications and bunkers to detonate massive explosive charges.