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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.

Kinsey

Kinsey

A look at the life of Alfred Kinsey, a pioneer in the area of human sexuality research, whose 1948 publication "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" was one of the first recorded works that saw science address sexual behavior.

Kardia

Kardia

As a child, Hope underwent an experimental heart operation that would forever link her with the man who aided the risky procedure by offering to act as a human extracorporeal circulatory system.

Join or Die

Join or Die

Centers on America's civic unraveling through the journey of scientist Robert Putnam, whose research on the decline in American community lights a path out of our democracy's present crisis.

    In Silico

    In Silico

    Will the Blue Brain Project—a highly publicized billion-euro effort to create a complete digital simulation of the human brain—revolutionize neuroscience or fall victim to hype, criticism, and its own ambitions?

    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.