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Ammonite

Ammonite

Acclaimed paleontologist Mary Anning works alone selling common fossils to tourists to support her ailing mother, but a chance job offer changes her life when a visitor hires her to care for his wife.

Wolfwalkers

Wolfwalkers

When a young hunter and her father journey to Ireland to help wipe out the last wolf pack, everything changes when she befriends a free-spirited girl from a mysterious tribe rumored to transform into wolves by night.

    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?

    First Cow

    First Cow

    A skilled cook travels west to find his fortune in Oregon.

      Rams

      Rams

      A decades-long feud between two sheep farming brothers comes to a head when disaster strikes their flocks.

        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.

        Weathering with You

        Weathering with You

        Set during a period of exceptionally rainy weather, a high-school boy runs away from his troubled rural home to Tokyo and befriends an orphan girl who can manipulate the weather.

          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.