Science Movies

A feature on Soviet space exploration on the 50th anniversary of the Russian Socialist Revolution.

An illuminating look inside the lives of the Grucci family, whose Long Island-based fireworks business has been lighting up night skies around the...

In this two-part Channel 4 series, Professor Richard Dawkins challenges what he describes as 'a process of non-thinking called faith'. He describes...

It is the birth of neutrino astronomy. For the first time, astrophysicists can detect extra-terrestrial neutrinos in ice on the South Pole. The...

A clip in the Science Please! collection, Slippery Ice! uses archival footage, animated illustrations and amusing narration to explain why we slip on...

The recent discovery by the Kepler satellite of thousands of Earth-like planets where life could be possible, has given a big boost to the Search for...

From the Los Angeles Times and Pulitzer Prize-finalist Rosanna Xia, OUT OF PLAIN SIGHT is a cinematic exposé of an environmental disaster...

A variety of scientific subjects, including the laboratory of a plastic surgeon in London, and his method for applying permanent makeup; a new...

Rat Brain is a documentary that highlights Dr. John D. Douglass and his team's research at Seattle Pacific University on chronic stress' neurological...

Two brains in jars exist exclusively in a game of PONG, oblivious to the world falling apart outside of their computer.

If machines can be smarter than people, is humanity really anything special?

Preparation of "spawn" for commercial mushrooms, which grow to the tune of "You Came Along." Also: extraction & uses of snake venom; personal dress...

Considers marvels of modern science: Fingerprints, cosmetics, radio, microbiological research, airplanes.

Tom Holland explores how our ancestors sought to explain the remains of dinosaurs and other giant prehistoric creatures, and how bones and fossils...

One entry in a series of films produced to make science accessible to the masses—especially children—this film describes the sun in...

Pliofilm plastic (rubber hydrochloride) and applications in raingear, food packaging, a transparent dress. Also, hybrid giant vegetables; plastic...

With input from an eclectic mix of scientists, engineers, sportspeople (and about thirty thousand snails) the film focuses on the many incarnations...

They have no roots, no seeds, no flowers, but mosses show immense survival capacities and can suspend their biological activity for long periods....

Intermittent fasting, autophagy, "metabolic switch": ten years after their first successful documentary on fasting, Sylvie Gilman and Thierry de...