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Overclockers (Polot)

Overclockers (Polot)

When his father dies in an accident, a young man decides to fix his family's financial situation by building an innovative airship with his friends.

Radium Girls

Radium Girls

When mysterious ailments strike a dial painter at American Radium, a dark truth emerges: She is not the first in the watch factory to fall ill. Her sister's legal fight against the corporation in 1928 launched workplace safety reforms and closer study of the dangers of radioactivity.

Brave Blue World

Brave Blue World

From reuse to energy generation, new innovations across five continents are explored in this documentary about building a future for sustainable water.

Kajillionaire

Kajillionaire

Con-artists Theresa and Robert have spent 26 years training their only daughter to swindle, scam, and steal at every opportunity. When they charm a stranger into joining their next scam, their world is turned upside down.

My Octopus Teacher

My Octopus Teacher

A filmmaker forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest.

Tenet

Tenet

A secret agent given a single word as his weapon must travel through time and bend the laws of nature to prevent the onset of World War III.

From Controversy to Cure

From Controversy to Cure

An unlikely mix of controversy, science and engineering, politics, the space race, and urban renewal transform Cambridge, Mass.'s Kendall Square into the biotechnology capital of the world.

Sing Me a Song

Sing Me a Song

Documentarian Thomas Balmès visits the serene young monk from his film Happiness again,10 years after TV, the internet, and smart phones arrive at his remote Bhutanese monastery.

Adventures of a Mathematician

Adventures of a Mathematician

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

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.

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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.

Human Nature

Human Nature

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

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.

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.

The Social Dilemma

The Social Dilemma

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Stuffed

Stuffed

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