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53 title(s) found.
After Life: The Strange Science of Decay
BBC BBC048Imagine an average family kitchen. The fridge and cupboards are well stocked. There are flowers on...
Alaska: Arctic, with Bruce Parry
BBC BBC042Bruce travels to Alaska, America's last great wilderness, where modern-day pioneers are harvesting...
Aliens
BBC BBC016At the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, a submarine observes extraordinary life forms that thrive...
Arctic, with Bruce Parry
BBC BBC037The Arctic is on the point of enormous, irreversible change. The effects of global warming are...
Bones: Origins of Us
BBC BBC052In this program, Dr. Alice Roberts charts the advance from Australopithecus toHomo erectus and...
Brains: Origins of Us
BBC BBC054Drawing on research into social politics among chimpanzees, the cognitive development of children...
Building Your Brain: Inside the Human Body
BBC BBC046The human brain is so sophisticated it takes more than 20 years to mature, making brain remodeling...
Can We Have Unlimited Power? A History of Energy
BBC BBC008Due to population, technology, and other factors, the emerging global generation is the most power...
Canada: Arctic with Bruce Parry
BBC BBC041Bruce travels to the far north of Canada to live with the Caribou people and witness their annual...
Creation: Inside the Human Body
BBC BBC044Following the progress of a couple who are expecting triplets, from the 4D ultrasound scan to the...
Dead or Alive
BBC BBC015Like Earth, most of the worlds that orbit the Sun are made of rock, but, geologically speaking, any...
Deep Earth: How Earth Made Us - The Untold Story of History
BBC BBC022Throughout history, human settlements and societies have been strangely drawn to fault lines, those...
Do You See What I See? The Science of Color Perception
BBC BBC049When a movie hero leaps into a taxi and shouts, "Follow that blue car!" he takes the driver's...
Elements: Making Sense of Matter
BBC BBC000Over the course of this three-part series, Jim Al-Khalili, Professor of Public Engagement in...
Empire of the Sun
BBC BBC012From the fleeting moments of a solar eclipse to the battle between the solar wind and Earth's...
Fire: How Earth Made Us - The Untold Story of History
BBC BBC025Beginning with a mind-boggling stunt that only science or spirituality can justify - a veritable...
First to Last: Inside the Human Body
BBC BBC045Starting with a water birth shot in slow motion and featuring a stunning graphics sequence that...
Fry's Planet Word Series
BBC BBC031Wordsmith Stephen Fry is the perfect guide for this fascinating exploration of language, from...
Greenland: Arctic, with Bruce Parry
BBC BBC040Bruce Parry journeys to the far north of Greenland, home to the last traditional Inuit hunters. He...
Guts: Origins of Us
BBC BBC053Anthropologists once emphasized "man the hunter" as the driving force in human evolution, but now...
Hostile World: Inside the Human Body
BBC BBC047With each inhalation, human beings take in potentially lethal microbes, while life-sustaining...
How Did We Get Here? A History of Evolutionary Science
BBC BBC007The question of human origins, and of the beginning of life itself, is one of the most...
How Earth Made Us: The Untold Story of History
BBC BBC021History is analyzed, for the most part, in terms of human actions. And yet our natural environment...
Human Planet: How Earth Made Us - The Untold Story of History
BBC BBC026Earth, water, wind, and fire…according to tradition, these four pieces make up the complex puzzle...
Identity: Fry's Planet Word
BBC BBC033What makes one group of humans different from another? In this program, Stephen Fry argues that...
Inside the Human Body Series
BBC BBC043Using breathtaking animations based on real images and the latest scientific research, this...
Into the Mind
BBC BBC027Over the last century scientists have devised many ingenious methods to unlock the secrets of the...
Into the Mind: Broken Brains
BBC BBC030Head injury, epilepsy, experimental surgery gone wrong—in this program, host Michael Mosley...
Into the Mind: Emotions
BBC BBC028Where do emotions come from, and why do we experience them? Is there a connection between reason...
Into the Mind: Mind Control
BBC BBC029In this program, host Michael Mosley provides an illustrated history of some of the most notorious...
Mapping the World
BBC BBC017From prehistoric rock art to the globe-spanning visions of Google Earth, this three-part series...
Mysteries of Matter: Chemistry and the Elements, from Hennig...
BBC BBC001Until the 17th century, the building blocks of the natural world were a mystery. Of elements there...
Northern Europe: Arctic, with Bruce Parry
BBC BBC039Bruce heads to a remote Russian village, deep within the vast boreal forest. Life here has changed...
Order Out of Chaos
BBC BBC013The pleasant order we see in our cosmic backyard was, ironically, carved from a chaotic cloud of...
Origins of Us Series
BBC BBC051Within the human body lies evidence of how we evolved away from the early apes to become the most...
Plunder and Possession
BBC BBC020Sparking awareness of distant lands, maps have likewise tempted the ambitious to pillage and...
Seven Wonders of the Solar System
BBC BBC011Using dramatic CGI imagery as well as breathtaking photographs from space probes and...
Siberia: Arctic, with Bruce Parry
BBC BBC038It's summer solstice in Siberia, a time of endless daylight and extraordinary festivals. Bruce...
Spirit of the Age
BBC BBC019Cartography may have a basis in science, but even in the hands of experts and authorities, it...
Spreading the Word: Fry's Planet Word
BBC BBC035In this program, Stephen Fry delves into the history of the written word, starting with the...
The Hidden Order: Chemistry and the Elements, from John Dalton...
BBC BBC002At the beginning of the 19th century, 55 elements had been discovered, and although scientists had...
The History of Science
BBC BBC004For 3,000 years, humans have wrestled with the great questions of existence. This fascinating...
The Power and the Glory: Fry's Planet Word
BBC BBC036Storytelling has been with us as long as language itself. The desire to both entertain and explain...
The Thin Blue Line
BBC BBC014It's hard to believe that only a flimsy envelope of gas protects life on our planet. But, as this...
Unleashing the Power: Creating Chemical Compounds and Splitting...
BBC BBC003Once scientists succeeded in identifying and organizing the 92 naturally occurring chemical...
Uses and Abuses: Fry's Planet Word
BBC BBC034While not everyone approves of “bad” words, in this program Stephen Fry learns that profanity...
Water: How Earth Made Us - The Untold Story of History
BBC BBC023Filmed in magnificent locations in Iceland, India, and the Middle East, this program looks at how...
What Is Out There? A History of Astronomy
BBC BBC005Our evolving view of the universe represents one of the great, overarching stories of human...
What Is the Secret of Life? A History of Biology and Genetics
BBC BBC009This program tells the story of how the secret of life has been pursued through the ages, using the...
What Is the World Made Of? A History of Chemistry and Physics
BBC BBC006Both greed and grand idealism have propelled the quest to discover what makes up the material...