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 Silent Killer: SARS
February 21, 2003, was just a normal day at Hotel Metropole in Hong Kong—until a guest, infected with SARS, became patient zero for an epidemic that rapidly infected people in dozens of countries around the world. This program—part dramatization...
The age of viruses
In an escalating war between humans and microbes, catastrophic disease may have the edge. This program studies the ubiquitous threat posed by super viruses and describes scientific efforts to prepare for viral disease epidemics. Documenting the Worl...
Viruses
Viruses are the simplest forms of life - so primitive in biological terms that for some years the scientific community debated whether they should even be regarded as living organisms. This program examines how viruses, though incapable of reproduci...
The Invisible Enemy: Weaponized Smallpox
Smallpox has officially been eradicated worldwide—but the destruction of lab cultures in government-sponsored biowar facilities was never monitored. A blend of dramatization and documentary, this program considers the weaponization and deployment ...
Branches on the tree of life: the biology of viruses
This program examines the discovery of viruses and their structure, how viruses are studied, how they infect their hosts and how they replicate. Details are provided on the T-4 bacteriophage and retroviruses such as HIV.