Our Friend the Atom

A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide.

This film consists of three parts. The first dramatizes the life of the founder of Soviet astronautics, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky; the second describes...

Dr George McGavin and Dr Zoe Laughlin set up base camp at one of the UK's biggest sewage works to investigate the revolutionary science finding vital...

The use of embryonic stem cells has ignited fierce debate across the spiritual and political spectrum. But what if we could create manmade stem cells...

The film interweaves the personal accounts of polio survivors with the story of an ardent crusader who tirelessly fought on their behalf while...

There are endless gruesome ways that the world could end; through nasty, natural disasters or because of some man-made abomination. From maniac...

Many geneticists and archaeologists have long surmised that human life began in Africa. Dr. Spencer Wells, one of a group of scientists studying the...

In 1973 Yorkshire public television made a short film of the Nobel laureate while he was there. The resulting film, Take the World from Another Point...

On April 25, 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick published their groundbreaking discovery of the double helix structure of DNA. But their crucial...

David Attenborough takes us on a guided tour through the secret world of plants, to see things no unaided eye could witness. Each episode in this...

In 1858 Charles Darwin struggles to publish one of the most controversial scientific theories ever conceived, while he and his wife Emma confront...

William Shatner presents a light-hearted look at how the "Star Trek" TV series have influenced and inspired today's technologies, including: cell...