Personality: all about me
The 100 billion cells that make up the brain communicate electrically over 1,000 trillion neural connections at up to 250 miles per hour - and from this sparking of electrical power grows the personality and its behavior. This program explores how p...
Secret Universe: Journey Inside the Cell
This epic film takes us on a high-tech adventure inside our own cells, revealing an alien world few have ever seen before - and reveals our eternal battle against the threat of invading viruses.
Like something out of science-fiction, the battle of ...
The Real Big Brother
Civil liberties advocates have warned against government surveillance for decades. Today, corporations use technology to monitor employees and customers. Is big business the new big brother? This program addresses the growing debate about our “sur...
The Making of Mankind - Episode 2: One Small Step
About this title: Discusses the ability to walk upright, which is considered a crucial step in the development of humankind. Documents the discovery of the oldest human footprints in the world by Mary Leakey near Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. Also disc...
The Making of Mankind - Episode 4: Beyond Africa
About this title: Richard Leakey tells the story of Peking Man, who used fire for heat and light and possibly for cooking. He also explores the increasing intelligence of our ancestors, and launches into a discussion on how and why humans began to s...
The Making of Mankind - Episode 5: A New Era
About this title: Richard Leakey details the emergence of our species, Homo sapiens, and explores some of the astonishing art our ancestors left behind, including the beautiful cave of Lascaux.
About the Series: Narrated by palaeo-anthropologist Ri...
Connections: faith in numbers
Each development in the organization of systems (political, economic, mechanical, electronic) influences the next, by logic, by genius, by chance, or by utterly unforeseen events. The transition from the Middle ages to the Renaissance was influenced...
The Making of Mankind - Episode 1: In the Beginning
About this title: Walking among the earliest-known fossil beds in Turkana, East Africa. Leakey explains mankind's transformation from four-footed, tree-dwelling, vegetarian primates to upright, omnivorous toolmakers.
About the Series: Narrated by p...
Are We Still Evolving?
Assume, for the sake of argument, that our species has created everything it needs—all the comfort and protection that technology can provide. Does that mean our biological evolution has come to an end? Not necessarily, says anatomist and anthropo...
The Making of Mankind - Episode 6: Settling Down
About this title: Traces the shift from a nomadic hunter-gatherer way of life to that of the settled villager and farmer. Discusses the beginning of agriculture and the emergence of cities, such as Jericho.
About the Series: Narrated by palaeo-anth...