A neurosurgeon falls in love, leaving her shining American career behind to start a new life.

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

A heavy-metal drummer's life is thrown into freefall when he begins to lose his hearing.

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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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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.

Activists, scientists, farmers and politicians turn to regenerative agriculture to save the planet's topsoil.

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

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.

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.