title: Curious Minds: Nanotechnology

title: Can Nanotechnology Lead To Advanced Weapons?

overview: Jim Phillips, Chairman and CEO of NanoMech, shares how nanotechnology will revolutionize the future of the weapons industry.

title: Manufacturing At The Nano Scale

overview: Eric Drexler, often called "the Father of Nanotechnology," discusses the manufacturing process at the nano scale.

title: Manufacturing At The Nano Scale

title: Nano-Manufactured Products

overview: Jim Phillips, Chairman and CEO of NanoMech, discusses the manufacturing potential associated with nanotechnology.

title: Nano-Manufactured Products

title: The Dark Side of Nanotechnology

overview: Eric Drexler, often called "the Father of Nanotechnology," discusses the potential dangers associated with nanoengineering.

title: The Dark Side of Nanotechnology

title: The Future of Nanotechnology

overview: Eric Drexler, often called "the Father of Nanotechnology," explains the future of nanoengineering.

title: The Future of Nanotechnology

title: The Nano Scale

overview: Eric Drexler, often called "the Father of Nanotechnology," explains the scale of Nano engineering.

title: The Nano Scale

title: The Next Tech Revolution

overview: Jim Phillips, Chairman and CEO of NanoMech, shares how nanotechnology will revolutionize the future of communications and manufacturing.

title: The Next Tech Revolution

title: What Products Use Nanotechnology?

title: What Products Use Nanotechnology?

title: How Will Nanotechnology Revolutionize Medicine?

overview: Jim Phillips, Chairman and CEO of NanoMech, shares how nanotechnology will revolutionize the future of medicine.

overview: Nano engineering will be one of the cornerstones of 21st Century industry and technological innovations.

title: Curious Minds: Nanotechnology

original_title: Curious Minds: Nanotechnology


title: Predict My Future: The Science Of Us

type: Poster

status: ReturningSeries

Season 1

title: The Early Years

overview: This episode introduces the Dunedin Longitudinal Study, begun in 1972 and continuing today. It then looks at indicators in childhood behaviors identified by the study that can predict whether a person will have a more or a less stable and successful life as an adult.  What are the basic indicators?

title: The Early Years

title: Les premières années

overview: Peut-on prévoir ce qu'un enfant va devenir à l'âge adulte en fonction de son environnement et de son comportement ? Un groupe de 1037 personnes, toutes nées dans la même ville néo-zélandaise en 1972, fait l'objet d'une étude menée depuis plus de quarante ans, devenue une référence dans le monde entier.

title: When Teens Run Off The Rails

overview: Troubled teens , why some go bad and others come right. What happens when young people run off the rails? Youth offending is very common, almost everyone does dumb things and many of us break the law. However youth offenders consist of two core groups; life present offenders (people who are going to continue offending regardless), and people who given the right conditions will return to become mainstream citizens.

title: When Teens Run Off The Rails

title: When Genes Mix with the Wrong Environment

overview: The Dunedin Study has identified a fundamental developmental mechanism that completely rewrites the nature versus nurture argument. It is a genetic switch which is thrown by life events , nature loads the gun but nurture pulls the trigger. This chapter tracks the hunt for the mechanism using three specific examples - violence in men, depression, and cannabis induced schizophrenia.

title: Dirt Is Good, Dirt Poor Is Bad

overview: The final instalment looks at the effects of modern life and aging , how excessive cleanliness affects asthma and allergies, how poverty gets under the skin to cause lifelong damage, the physical effects of social isolation, and predicting mental illness and Alzheimer's by just looking at the back of people's eyes. Plus the latest research and where the research is going next.

title: Dirt Is Good, Dirt Poor Is Bad

overview: Meet the most scientifically studied people in the world.  A group of 1,037 New Zealanders followed since their births in 1972.

title: Predict My Future: The Science Of Us

title: Qui sommes-nous ? La grande expérience

overview: Est-ce que les comportements et caractéristiques que nous démontrons à l'enfance prédisent ce que nous allons devenir à l'âge adulte? Cette série enquête sur le sempiternel débat entre l'inné et l'acquis, mais est-ce que l'inné charge le fusil et l'acquis appuie sur la détente?

title: Mikä meitä odottaa?

overview: He ovat maailman tutkituimmat ihmiset: Dunedinin kaupungissa Uudessa-Seelannissa vuonna 1972 syntyneet 1 037 ihmistä ovat olleet tutkijoiden seurannassa koko elämänsä ajan. Yli neljä vuosikymmentä myöhemmin 96 prosenttia heistä on yhä mukana tutkimuksessa. Ainutlaatuinen projekti on tuottanut niin lääketieteellistä kuin sosiologista tietoa sydänterveydestä addiktioihin, neurotieteestä kriminologiaan. Tutkimus kertoo myös kiintoisia asioita geenien ja ympäristön vaikutuksesta yksilön käyttäytymiseen ja terveyteen.

original_title: Predict My Future: The Science Of Us

original_language: en


title: Invisible Universe

status: Ended

title: Magic Movements

overview: We cannot see things like the movement of a sponge because its movements are too slow.  But with specialized photography we can see imperceptibly slow and fast movements.  See the dynamics of a child's first steps, rainfall, nocturnal animals and butterflies in flight-and the incredible archer fish.

title: Magic Movements

title: Frozen Moments

overview: With specialized photography we can view some amazing sights not visible to the human eye. Watch the "Kiss Experiment", the dynamics of the oldest weapon ever discovered, the brain waves of musicians and the scales on a butterfly's wing, amongst other awesome moments captured for our eyes to see.

title: Frozen Moments

title: In the Blink of an Eye

overview: Phenomena of incredible speed that we cannot see, captured in stunning detail using high-speed cameras. Watch the mechanics of dogs in motion (do their feet touch the ground?) Learn how a cat’s tongue works, experience the shockwaves of explosions, see the dynamics of fire -- and more!

title: In the Blink of an Eye

title: Hidden Revelations

overview: Look at a parallel world that humans cannot see. Among other stories, we delve into how boxers and table tennis pros see; the skills of Shaolin Monks; the way a bee transmits the locale of flowers, and the amazing lion fish and how it hunts.

title: Hidden Revelations

overview: Incredible high speed photography captures movement and effects in nature that the human eye cannot perceive as they occur.  Be amazed!

title: Invisible Universe

title: 看不见的宇宙

overview: 我们生活在高速世界，对我们的感官来说太快，我们只能看到四周的片段，就像在时间间隔中观察世界。我们看不到的逃离了我们，但还在那里，在尖端摄影技术的帮助下可以看到。这是进入超级速度平行宇宙的迷人旅程，纯粹的魔术时刻在绝妙的细节中得以揭露，不可见的变成了可见。裸

title: Neviditelný vesmír

overview: Superzpomalené obrázky, zachycené nejnovější speciální technologií, odkrývají záhadný svět, který jsme nikdy předtím neviděli. Mnohé z toho, co nedokážeme pochopit v reálném čase, můžeme nyní odhalit ve zpomaleném tempu. Ať už se jedná o umění tanečníka breakdance, jízdu na horské dráze, let sýkorky či akrobatické manévry včel.

original_title: Invisible Universe


title: Curious Minds: Terrorism

type: Backdrop

title: Is the U.S. Ready for a Cyber Attack?

overview: Henry Crumpton, the former head of counterterrorism at the State Department, discusses whether the U.S. is prepared to handle a cyber attack.

title: Is the U.S. Ready for a Cyber Attack?

title: Political Will To Fight Terrorism

overview: Henry Crumpton, the former head of counterterrorism at the State Department, discusses the role of politics in the war on terror.

title: Political Will To Fight Terrorism

title: What is the Future of Espionage?

overview: Henry Crumpton, a former senior counterterrorism official, talks about the complex role of espionage in national security.

title: What is the Future of Espionage?

overview: How does the global community deal with the increasing terrorist activity on large and small scales?

title: Curious Minds: Terrorism

original_title: Curious Minds: Terrorism


title: Curious Minds: The Bronze Age

title: The Bronze Age

overview: Eric Cline, Professor of Classics and Anthropology  describes the characteristics of the Bronze Age in the Mediterranean region.

title: The Bronze Age

title: Food And Beverage

overview: Eric Cline, Professor of Classics and Anthropology at George Washington University, discusses the culture of food and wine in the ancient Mediterranean world.

title: Food And Beverage

title: The Invention Of Writing

overview: Eric Cline, Professor of Classics and Anthropology at George Washington University, examines the invention and development of writing since ancient Mesopotamia.

title: The Invention Of Writing

title: Social Networks In The Bronze Age

overview: Eric Cline, Professor of Classics and Anthropology at George Washington University, explains how kings of Syria and Egypt bridged great distances to communicate during the Bronze Age.  And how those working for the monarchs sent messages as well.

title: Social Networks In The Bronze Age

title: The Fall Of The Bronze Age

overview: Eric Cline, Professor of Classics and Anthropology at George Washington University, describes the factors leading to the decline of the Bronze Age Mediterranean civilizations, a collapse equivalent to the demise of the Roman Empire 1500 years later.

title: The Fall Of The Bronze Age

title: Life Of An Archaeologist

overview: Eric Cline, Professor of Classics and Anthropology at George Washington University, takes you through one day in the life of an archaeologist, which starts at 4:30AM!

title: Life Of An Archaeologist

overview: What were the characteristics of humans in The Bronze Age?  Learn about the civilization and what they ate and how they lived.

title: Curious Minds: The Bronze Age

original_title: Curious Minds: The Bronze Age


title: Mark Emery's American Wildlife

title: A Florida White-tailed Winter

overview: It’s wintertime in Florida, which can only mean one thing, White-tailed deer mating season. Watch these majestic creatures flirt, fight and play as they search for their soulmate.

title: A Florida White-tailed Winter

title: Alligator Springs

overview: We capture the Spring and Summertime of the American alligator amongst the warm springs and swamps of the southern US.  Available in 4K.

title: Alligator Springs

title: Brown Bears Of Summer

overview: Glimpse the short but sweet summer livin' of the brown bears of Alaska.  Swimming, kids playing for hours outdoors, and lots of food, their summer is much like our own, only in the midst of gorgeous mountains and streams in Alaska!

title: Brown Bears Of Summer

title: Manatee Lullaby

overview: Spend a little down time with the manatees in the warm springs of Florida.  Definitely a winter break worth taking!

title: Manatee Lullaby

title: Salmon Season

overview: Experience a salmon run like never before. Hoping to reach the upper reaches of an Alaskan river, these salmon must traverse the ocean, fishing nets, and even bears, to spawn a new generation. Available in 4K.

title: Salmon Season

overview: Iconic American wildlife captured in their beautiful natural surroundings in Florida and Alaska.

title: Mark Emery's American Wildlife

original_title: Mark Emery's American Wildlife


title: Curious Minds: Science In Society

title: Global Warming: Science Vs. Skeptics

overview: Michio Kaku, famed theoretical physicist and founder of string field theory, examines the tension between religious ideology and scientific thoughts in the public arena.

title: Global Warming: Science Vs. Skeptics

title: How Did Newton Change World History?

overview: Michio Kaku, famed theoretical physicist and founder of string field theory, weighs the impact of Sir Isaac Newton's contribution to mankind's development.

title: How Did Newton Change World History?

title: Crime And Forensic Science

overview: What skills do you need to be a forensic scientist?  How does forensic science help tell the story of the crime and of the victim?

title: Crime And Forensic Science

title: The Next Sputnik Moment

overview: Michio Kaku, famed theoretical physicist and founder of string field theory, examines the scientific powerhouses of the 20th century and how the U.S. is falling behind.

title: The Next Sputnik Moment

title: What Do You Say To Science Doubters?

overview: Lisa Randall, theoretical physicist and leading particle and cosmology expert, theorizes on why some individuals don't base their understanding on science.

title: What Do You Say To Science Doubters?

title: Who Inspired You To Become A Physicist?

overview: Michio Kaku, famed theoretical physicist and founder of string field theory, relates his love for Saturday morning television and its impact on his professional life.

title: Who Inspired You To Become A Physicist?

title: Why Do Teens Lose Interest In Science?

overview: Michio Kaku, famed theoretical physicist and founder of string field theory, discusses the failure to encourage students' sustained interest in the sciences.

title: Why Do Teens Lose Interest In Science?

title: Will Science Solve The Problems Of The Future?

overview: Lisa Randall, theoretical physicist and leading particle and cosmology expert, outlines the importance of using science to tackle long-term global issues.

title: The Challenge Of Protecting Endangered Species

overview: NOAA Administrator Kathryn Sullivan describes the challenge of protecting endangered species in our world's oceans and coastal zones.

title: Advice For Young Scientists

overview: Former NASA Astronaut Kathryn Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space, describes the excitement of real-world science beyond the classroom.

title: Advice For Young Scientists

overview: Experts discuss the impact of scientific thought and developments across our society.

title: Curious Minds: Science In Society

original_title: Curious Minds: Science In Society


title: Curious Minds: Deepak Chopra

title: Perfect Being, God & Consciousness

overview: Yujin Nagasawa, professor of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham, tackles questions such as how the brain creates a consciousness of the cosmos.  As well he explores philosophy of religion and the existence of God by reference to philosophers Bertrand Russell and St. Anselm.

title: Perfect Being, God & Consciousness

title: Implications Of Astrobiology: Understanding Our Unseen Reality

overview: Steven Dick, author of "Implications of Astrobiology: Understanding our Unseen World", discusses the search for life outside Earth and our solar system,  and the meaning of a "post-biological" universe, among other topics.

title: Cosmic Jazz & Quantum Consciousness

overview: Stephon Alexander, a theoretical physicist at Dartmouth, whose work studies the interface of sub atomic particles with super clusters, tackles defining Quantum Gravity and its relation to String Theory.  He and Deepak Chopra discuss whether there is an "objective reality".

title: Cosmic Jazz & Quantum Consciousness

title: Biofield Science & The Future Of Healing

overview: Shamini Jain, a professor at UC San Diego,  talks about her work in biofield healing and psychoneuro immunology.  She discusses the mind/brain/body relationship, bioelectromagnetics in medicine and new developments in biofield science.

title: Essential Conundrums: What Is & What Matters

overview: Rebecca Goldstein, of the New College of Humanities in London, discusses her career as a writer, trying to embed ethical questions and philosophy into storytelling to look more closely into areas in which philosophy and science work to answer the same questions.

title: Is There A Connection Between Quantum Mechanics And Consciousness?

overview: Paavo Pylkkanen, a Finnish philosopher of mind at the University of Helsinki, discusses how modern physics affects our world view.  Can you scientifically prove an observer-independent universe?  What do Bohmian mechanics tell us about real life?

title: Revisiting Evolution Of Species

overview: Neil Theise, Professor of Pathology and of Medicine at the Beth Israel Medical Center of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, discusses the significance of the stem cells in the human body.  In light of what we are learning about stem cells, do we need to revise our picture of evolution?

title: Revisiting Evolution Of Species

title: Creative Cosmos

overview: Menas Kafatos, Professor of Computational Physics at Chapman University and author of "The Conscious Universe", engages in a wide ranging discussion of science, religion and philosophy and how they intersect and diverge.

title: Creative Cosmos

title: The Knobe Effect: The World As We Are

overview: Joshua Knobe, a Yale Professor in experimental philosophy, asks many questions about human nature -- how people become capable of evil, and if we can empirically measure "intention".  Why is war thought of as a solution to, not a symptom of,  of a problem?

title: The Knobe Effect: The World As We Are

title: A Beautiful Question, Part 1

overview: Frank Wilczek, Nobel Laureate and Professor of Physics at MIT, discusses his work in particle physics, dark matter and dark energy.

title: A Beautiful Question, Part 1

title: A Beautiful Question, Part 2

overview: Frank Wilczek, Nobel Laureate and Professor of Physics at MIT, talks about his latest book "A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design".  Why is a physicist exploring the notion of beauty in the universe?  Does the universe embody beautiful ideals?

title: A Beautiful Question, Part 2

title: Understanding Our Unseen Reality

overview: Quantum Physics mathematically describes reality at the smallest scales. However, scientists argue over its interpretation and what it means. Dr Kastner, Philosophy of Physics expert, explains the transactional interpretation.

title: Understanding Our Unseen Reality

title: The Non Local Universe

overview: A conversation with physicist Jenny Nielsen on the nature of fundamental reality, space and time and the nature of entanglement.

title: The Non Local Universe

title: Non-Dual Reality

overview: Rupert Spira, a masterful teacher, talking with Deepak Chopra, discusses using meditation as a skill to grow closer to the fundamental reality of existence.

title: Non-Dual Reality

title: Consciousness Is The Way The Universe Turns Nothing Into Something

overview: Fred Alan Wolf, a theoretical physicist specializing in quantum physics and author, explains why he thinks consciousness may be the stuff of the universe.

title: The Super Human Mind

overview: Does a mind element exist in the fabric of space-time?  What is Panpsychism?  Berit Brogaard, noted philosopher and author, discusses these and other questions with Deepak Chopra.

title: The Super Human Mind

title: Is Mind/Body Medicine Becoming Mainstream?

overview: James Gordon, MD, and Deepak Chopra MD discuss the science of healing and advances in medicine aligned with mind/body connections.

title: Iranian Woman - Space Hero

overview: Anousheh Ansari, an engineer and the first Muslim woman in space, the fourth overall self-funded space traveler, and the first self-funded woman to fly to the International Space Station, reflects on life, space travel, and being a role model for young women.

title: Iranian Woman - Space Hero

title: The Mind Body Code

overview: How do culture, context and interpretation shape our biology ?  Dr. Mario Martinez, founder of the Institute of Biocognitive Psychology, discusses this with Deepak Chopra.

title: The Mind Body Code

title: The Garden Of Truth: The Vision And  Promise Of Sufism, Islam's Mystical Tradition

overview: Professor Nasr, who has written extensively on mystic traditions in Islam, discusses the idea that the absolute reality of all mystical traditions is one and the same.

title: How We Create Our Reality

overview: Jenny Wade, author and consultant, discusses awareness with Deepak Chopra. Consciousness expands our cognition, and as our perceptions change, our experience of the world changes.

title: How We Create Our Reality

title: God That Could Be Real

overview: According to historian and author, Nancy Abrams,  the study of the Science God could be an emergent phenomenon in the 21st Century.

title: God That Could Be Real

title: Solution To The Hard Problem Of Consciousness

overview: Deepak Chopra and Bernardo Kastrup, philosopher and author discuss why consciousness could be the fundamental reality of the universe.

title: Waking Up To Our Immortal Being

overview: At the fundamental level of existence is death an illusion?  Deepak Chopra and philosopher Bernardo Kastrup discuss this and other elemental questions.

title: Waking Up To Our Immortal Being

title: The Living Universe

overview: Are we part of a living universe that evolves, grows and is conscious ?  Duane Elgin, noted speaker and author, discusses this and other questions with Deepak Chopra.

title: The Living Universe

title: The World Of Astrology

overview: Deepak Chopra talks with Susan Miller, astrologer, about the logic behind the study of Astrology.

title: The World Of Astrology

title: The Neuroscience Of Consciousness

overview: How do we or can we measure consciousness scientifically?  Deepak Chopra talks with Heather Berlin, who focuses her studies on brain-behavior relationships.

title: The Neuroscience Of Consciousness

title: Cosmic Evolution: Current Understanding Of The Universe

overview: Astrophysicist Joel Primack discusses our current theories of the universe and its origins with Deepak Chopra.

title: What Your Thoughts Cannot Tell You

overview: Deepak Chopra interviews Kleopatra Ormos, psychiatrist and author, about her book, "Journey of the Human Sculptor: What your thoughts cannot tell you".

title: What Your Thoughts Cannot Tell You

overview: Deepak Chopra talks informally with leading physicists and scientists about their work and the larger questions of humankind's existence.

title: Curious Minds: Deepak Chopra

original_title: Curious Minds: Deepak Chopra


title: European Inventor Award 2016

title: Alim-Louis Benabid:  Treatment For Parkinson's Disease

overview: Since 1987 Alim-Louis Benabid has worked to cure the tremors caused by the onset of Parkinson's disease.  Over 150K patients worldwide have benefited from his invention, using deep brain stimulation.  How does the therapy actually work?

title: Alain Charpentier: Implantable Artificial Heart

overview: Legendary surgeon Alain Charpentier has invented the world's first completely artificial heart.  First famous for the artificial heart valves he invented, Dr. Charpentier has been working with a unique team to design and construct his medical device, which has worked successfully in several trials.

title: Cerne/Polenghi: Gluten Substitutes From Corn

overview: Around 1 percent of the population is allergic to gluten.  Food technologists Verna Cerne and Ombretta Polenghi are working on a gluten substitute to help those with allergies and celiac disease.

title: Fortunato/Martins: Paper Transistors

overview: Two scientists have come up with  a 21st Century use for one of the oldest substances in use by humans, paper.  Their ideas may transform paper into an electronic medium, and the possible uses for paper transistors are seemingly endless.

title: Fortunato/Martins: Paper Transistors

title: Hugo Herr: Biomechatronic Leg Joints

overview: While rock climbing as a teen, Hugo Herr was injured.  This sparked a life's journey to design truly responsive artificial legs, and he is now developing groundbreaking technology for artificial legs at MIT, combining engineering, medical insights and biological processes.

title: Hugo Herr: Biomechatronic Leg Joints

title: Robert Langer: Targeted Anti-Cancer Drugs

overview: Robert Langer is a sought-after researcher who has fundamentally changed the way in which medicine is administered.  Today his laboratory develops polymers which can accommodate up to nine different medications and deliver them to the areas of the body requiring the medicine.

title: Helen Lee: Diagnostic Kits For Developing Countries

overview: Helen Lee has developed a machine which can test for and detect a specific unique genetic material of either a virus or bacteria.  This straightforward test and the equipment can be deployed in places in which medical facilities are few and far between.

title: Arogyaswami Paulraj: Faster Wireless Connectivity

overview: Meet the man behind your ability to watch and then share cat videos on your phone.  Arogyaswami Paulraj of Stanford is responsible for MIMO, the basis for the rapid wireless phone communications we have today.

title: Miroslav Sedláček: Rolling Fluid Turbine

overview: Miroslav Sedláček had already seen lots of whirlpools in the river. But he'd never really thought about the physics involved.  When he did, he developed a revolutionary water-powered turbine that can be deployed on small waterways to generate power.  How does it work?

title: Anton van Zanten: Electronic Stability Control For Cars

overview: Thank Anton van Zanten for the stability of modern cars.  His work first with anti-lock brakes and now with the ESP or Electronic Stability System has assured a safer ride for all drivers.

title: Daemen/Liardet – Secure Smartcard Encryption

overview: In southern France, at the semiconductor manufacturer STMicroelectronics, experts are working on making smartcards and microprocessors even safer. Pierre-Yvan Liardet and Joan Daemen are among the world's leading data encryption specialists. What are they working on now?

title: Arminas Ragauskas: Ultrasound To Safely Measure Brain Pressure

overview: Drilling into the skull used to be the only reliable technique for determining intracranial pressure after brain injuries.  But now, Arminas Ragauskas has found an entirely different solution, based on a technology that everyone knows: blood pressure measurement.

title: Gleich/Weizenecker – Magnetic Particle Imaging

overview: With MPI, now in development, images can be generated 1000 times faster than with magnetic resonance imaging.  In addition, after injection of the nanoparticles, the machine will scan a specific region in the body where the particles are located, leading to quicker, more accurate diagnoses.

title: Tore Curstedt: Treatment For Respiratory Issues Of Premature Babies

overview: Tore Curstedt has devoted his life to finding a synthetic surfectant to act as a therapeutic agent against Respiratory Distress Syndrome, which claims the lives of premature babies.  Today over 500K children owe their lives to his research and the breakthrough drug he developed.

title: Johannessen/Quaade: Reducing Air Pollution Inside An Engine

overview: Johannessen and his team have developed a revolutionary system to eliminate pollutants from diesel combustion at the engine site.  A key technology that has numerous benefits; a very low nitrogen oxide value in the vehicle exhaust, and reduced carbon dioxide emissions.

overview: From designs for transistors made of paper to artificial organs for the body, these inventors have changed our lives across the world.

title: European Inventor Award 2016

original_title: European Inventor Award 2016


title: The Nano Revolution

title: More Than Human

overview: Through nanotechnology, the practice of medicine is evolving from treating illness to a practice that is predictive, personalized, and pre-emptive. Will there be a medical future where permanent nano-devices can roam the body to monitor, provide early diagnosis, and take action against diseases?

title: More Than Human

title: Will Nano Save The Planet?

overview: So, will nanotechnology save the Earth’s environment? Or will it provide another way in which humans can harm nature? We meet scientists who believe that nanotechnology may be the key to overcoming the biosphere’s environmental problems. But what happens when nano-structured materials decay?

title: Will Nano Save The Planet?

title: Welcome To Nano City

overview: The invisible revolution of nano technology is at work in our lives. This episode introduces us to the world of nanomaterials; photocatalytic coatings, and nano fibres stronger than steel. The episode then explores nano’s potential role as invisible intelligence in security devices.

title: Welcome To Nano City

overview: Nanotechnology provides groundbreaking solutions to problems in our world, at a scale 80,000 times smaller than a human hair.

title: The Nano Revolution

original_title: The Nano Revolution


title: Curiosity Retreats 2014 Lectures

title: The Future of the Mind

overview: Michio Kaku, best-selling author and  physicist, imagining the not-so-distant future, offers his projections for advancements in humanity's understanding of the brain over the next century.  Kaku envisions a world in which progress in neuroscience and biotechnology will demystify the human mind.

title: The Future of the Mind

title: The Future of the Internet

overview: Vint Cerf, co-author of the TCP/IP protocol suite that provides the Internet with its basic architecture, is known as "one of the founding fathers of the Internet."  Cerf discusses what the future may hold for the internet: will it ultimately connect us with the universe?

title: The Future of the Internet

title: Frontiers Of Science

overview: As the director of one of a world renowned institute for scientific research -- the Institute for Advanced Study -- Robbert Dijkgraaf is a pioneer in the field of mathematical physics.  This string theory specialist draws from his experiences to elucidate current advances in physics.

title: Frontiers Of Science

title: The Future of Nanotechnology

overview: Eric Drexler, the "founding father of nanotechnology," and Jim Phillips, the CEO of Nanomech, discuss the potential applications and implications of nanotechnology.  How will this atomically precise manufacturing impact the future of technology, global governance, and the environment?

title: The Future of Nanotechnology

title: Science of Happiness

overview: Dr. Nancy Etcoff, a leading researcher in the field of positive psychology, reveals why it is crucial to understand exactly how our mental and physical health is benefited by emotions like happiness and joy, and how we are affected by anxiety and depression.

title: Science of Happiness

title: A Universe of Big Numbers

overview: John Hendricks, founder of the Discovery Channel and CuriosityStream, explores the largest numbers in the Universe and describes how the average person might be able to comprehend their scale.  How can a normal person understand "quadrillion" in real terms?

title: A Universe of Big Numbers

title: Discovery in Cosmology & Particle Physics

overview: Harvard professor and best-selling author, Dr. Lisa Randall, simplifies and expounds upon some of modern physics' most basic questions.  What is dark matter and dark energy?  What is the fundamental nature of space and time?  What do we not know yet about the universe and its fundamental properties?

title: The Middle East & Global Security

overview: Ambassador Henry Crumpton, a veteran CIA operative with experiences on the front line of America's initial campaign against the Taliban in Afghanistan, considers the paradigm shift caused by the increased role  of non-state actors in the Mid-East and other issues facing that region and the world.

title: The Middle East & Global Security

title: Modern China

overview: Sheryl WuDunn, a best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, illuminates the economic, financial, political and social issues in East Asia and around the world, and the economic and political uncertainties facing China today.

title: Modern China

title: Super Brain

overview: The best-selling authors of Super Brain, Dr. Deepak Chopra and Dr. Rudy Tanzi, describe the basic rules about how our brain functions.  Your brain always eavesdrops on your thoughts.  Can you teach your brain to become unlimited, by thinking that you have that potential?

title: Super Brain

overview: Top thinkers and scientists speak to today's global concerns.

title: Curiosity Retreats 2014 Lectures

original_title: Curiosity Retreats 2014 Lectures


title: Killing Hitler

title: Part 1

overview: June 1944 -- British intelligence suggests that without Hitler, the German war effort would falter. ‘LBX’, a staff officer with the Special Operations Executive, must devise a plan for Hitler’s assassination.  How could a British agent get close enough to Hitler to kill him?

title: Part 1

title: Part 2

overview: LBX continues planning the potential assassination and decides a sniper should strike when Hitler feels most relaxed: in his home in the Berghof.  But would killing Hitler really end the war, or just make him a martyr?  How would history have changed if the plan had succeeded?

title: Part 2

overview: Operation Foxley was the top secret plan hatched by the British in June 1944 to assassinate Adolf Hitler.  Could such a plan have worked?

title: Killing Hitler

title: Killing Hitler

original_title: Killing Hitler


title: Ships That Changed The World

title: Titanic & the Race for the Atlantic

overview: By far the most famous, the Titanic was just one of nearly 2000 ships built by Harland & Wolff during the company’s history. The shipyards of Belfast once produced no less than one eighth of the world’s total shipping output. The saga of how that came to be is as grand as the Titanic herself.

title: Titanic & the Race for the Atlantic

title: Ships at War

overview: The sinking of the Hood in 1941 – symbolic flagship of the British fleet - was a huge blow, and Churchill retaliated by ordering the sinking of the Bismarck. This tale became a symbol of Britain’s defiance in the Second World War.

title: Ships at War

title: From the Sea to the Air

overview: The race to restore the huge quantities of merchant shipping sunk during the war reinvigorated the shipyard.  However, the age of the luxury liner was over.  In the 1980's,  the Canberra, a liner, was being deployed to the Falklands during that conflict.

title: From the Sea to the Air

overview: This series tells the history of three great ships, the Titanic, the Bismarck, and the TS Canberra, that mirror the history of the century.

title: Ships That Changed The World

original_title: Ships That Changed The World


title: The Birth Of Shopping

title: Part 1: A Genius Idea

overview: The first episode introduces viewers to the world’s first department store created by the cunning and visionary 19th century French entrepreneur, Aristide Boucicaut. His new kind of enterprise changes not only his fortunes, but also the lives of women and modern society forever.

title: Part 1: A Genius Idea

title: Part 2: A Modern Game

overview: This episode reveals the canny secrets of the retail game in the early part of the 20th century. Moving from department stores in America to England to Australia, the program examines the wily tactics of the world’s greatest retailers, like turning religious feast days into excuses for sales.

title: Part 2: A Modern Game

overview: The untold social history of "shopping" including its role in cementing womens rights, economic change and social progress.  Who knew?

title: The Birth Of Shopping

title: The Birth Of Shopping

overview: De onnoemelijke sociale geschiedenis van 'winkelen', inclusief de rol ervan bij het versterken van vrouwenrechten, economische veranderingen en sociale vooruitgang.

original_title: The Birth Of Shopping


title: Great Minds Of Design

title: Urban Redesign

overview: The work of these street artists arises out of their love for the urban jungle.  Their selected materials are intended to naturally grow, die, melt, or blow away in the wind. Their clever creations add dignity to derelict sites and beautify the city landscape, especially in areas of decay.

title: Urban Redesign

title: Solar Stained Glass

overview: Sarah Hall designs architectural glass for buildings around the world. Now she installs one of her most ambitious designs to date, a series of giant solar energy collecting windows in a cathedral.  It will be the first Cathedral in the world to incorporate solar energy into its design.

title: Solar Stained Glass

title: Designing Cultures: Haiti

overview: Patty Johnson has worked in South America, The Philippines, and South Africa, collaborating with indigenous groups in the creation of high-end design products that are sustainable in communities with low employment. For her current project, Patty travels to the devastated country of Haiti.

title: Designing Cultures: Haiti

title: Architecture By Nature

overview: Trevor McIvor and his partners design buildings that take advantage of the innate heating and cooling characteristics of nature.  From an off the grid “cottage” that requires no artificial cooling, to a green-roofed sound studio rising out of the earth, nature dictates the design flow.

title: Architecture By Nature

title: Designing With Ghosts

overview: Nicholas Kennedy works with the ghosts of printing’s past, by using salvaged equipment. His style of “anti-design” or “found design” insists that you don’t have to reinvent the wheel every time you create. He suddenly makes the dying art of bookmaking seem very much alive.

title: Designing With Ghosts

title: Dream Big. Do Good. Spread Joy.

overview: Industrial designer Helen Kerr works on everything from soap pumps to geo-mapping the island of Manhattan. Her team uses materials that can be broken down at the end of an object’s life, so each piece can be put back into the recycling stream.

title: Dream Big. Do Good. Spread Joy.

overview: Sustainable designers make products that consider the effects their creation have on culture and society.  Can design affect change?

title: Great Minds Of Design

original_title: Great Minds Of Design


title: Beijing: Biography Of An Imperial Capital

title: Part 1: Center Of The Cosmos

overview: Beijing was an unlikely capital. Designed to replicate the Chinese vision of the cosmos, Imperial Beijing was laid out according to the principles of feng shui - the perfect balance between yin and yang, it was believed, would ensure peace and prosperity in the empire.

title: Part 1: Center Of The Cosmos

title: Part 2: Barbarians At The Gate

overview: Beijing is where China and the outside world met, mediated and collided. For centuries, it straddled the boundary between Chinese civilization and the nomadic tribes of Central Asia. In Beijing, Jesuit missionaries first introduced Western science to the Chinese emperors.

title: Part 2: Barbarians At The Gate

title: Part 3: Emperors, Conquerors And Rebels

overview: China’s capital has been the stage for some of the giants of Chinese and world history. From the conquering Mongol hordes of Genghis Khan to China’s exiled last emperor, Beijing’s annals are filled with stories of victory and defeat, and the exploits of its rulers, rebels and renegades.

title: Part 3: Emperors, Conquerors And Rebels

overview: In this three-part series, the rich history of China's ancient capital city is brought to life using stunning reconstructions and CGI. From the city's conquest and destruction by the Mongol hordes of Ghengis Khan, to the moment when China's last emperor was expelled from the Forbidden City, Beijing's biography is a story of mighty rulers, rebels and renegades.

title: 베이징: 제국의 수도

overview: 베이징은 수도 같지 않은 장소다. 고대 중국의 주변부에 위치한 이 도시는 중요하지 않은 외곽 도시로 남을 수도 있었지만 몇몇 특별한 인물들의 눈에 띄었다. 그들은 베이징의 전략적 가치를 이해하고 웅장한 수도로 만들었다. 제국의 수도는 나라의 평화와 번영을 기리며 '풍수'라는 원칙에 입각해 배치됐다.


title: Curious Minds: Marine Archaeology

title: Robotics Or Manned Missions For Under-Sea Work?

overview: James Delgado, Director of the Maritime Heritage Program at NOAA, weighs the pros and cons of using robotics as a means of marine exploration.

title: Fresh Water Vs Salt Water Wrecks

overview: James Delgado, Director of the Maritime Heritage Program at NOAA, compares the state of shipwrecks found in salt water as opposed to fresh water.

title: Fresh Water Vs Salt Water Wrecks

title: Inspiring The Next Generation

overview: James Delgado, Director of the Maritime Heritage Program at NOAA, takes us aboard Project Shiphunt, where a group of high school students are introduced to the intricacies of shipwreck exploration.

title: Inspiring The Next Generation

title: N.O.A.A.'s Sanctuaries

overview: James Delgado, Director of the Maritime Heritage Program at NOAA, takes an in-depth look at NOAA's Marine Sanctuaries, and the treasures that can be found there.

title: N.O.A.A.'s Sanctuaries

title: S.S. Tennessee

overview: James Delgado, Director of the Maritime Heritage Program at NOAA, tells the story of the steamship Tennessee, which left its bones on the shores of Golden Gate National Parks.

title: S.S. Tennessee

title: The Value Of Shipwrecks

overview: James Delgado, Director of the Maritime Heritage Program at NOAA, looks at the riches that can be gleamed from exploring shipwrecks.

title: The Value Of Shipwrecks

title: Thunder Bay Marine Sanctuary

overview: Dan Basta, NOAA's Director of Marine Sanctuaries, describes the Thunder Bay Marine Sanctuary, found in the Great Lakes, which houses close to 200 shipwrecks.

title: Thunder Bay Marine Sanctuary

title: Underwater Archaeology Technology

overview: James Delgado, Director of the Maritime Heritage Program at NOAA, takes a look at the impact that new and emerging technologies are having on the world of marine archaeology.

title: Underwater Archaeology Technology

title: U.S.S. Arizona

overview: James Delgado, Director of the Maritime Heritage Program at NOAA, revisits the USS Arizona, a World War II battleship sunk during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Learn more about its impact on history, as well as its current state as a Pacific National Monument.

title: U.S.S. Arizona

title: U.S.S. Monitor

overview: James Delgado, Director of the Maritime Heritage Program at NOAA, explores the rich history of the USS Monitor, the first ironclad warship used by the Union Navy during the Civil War.

title: U.S.S. Monitor

title: What Was The First Marine Sanctuary?

overview: Dan Basta, NOAA's Director of Marine Sanctuaries, delves into the first Marine Sanctuary, the USS Monitor. Learn more about the history of this ironclad warship.

title: What Was The First Marine Sanctuary?

title: Marine Archaeology

overview: James Delgado, Director of the Maritime Heritage Program at NOAA, explores the biggest museum on Earth, our oceans.

title: Marine Archaeology

title: Who Runs The Marine Sanctuaries?

overview: Dan Basta, NOAA's Director of Marine Sanctuaries, reviews the link between Marine Sanctuaries and the communities they encompass.

title: Who Runs The Marine Sanctuaries?

overview: What are the special challenges facing marine archaeologists?  Experts discuss sites, like the Titanic, and how to protect our heritage.

title: Curious Minds: Marine Archaeology

original_title: Curious Minds: Marine Archaeology


title: Curious Minds: The Future

title: The Trillion Sensor World

overview: Peter Diamandis, Founder of X Prize and technology entrepreneur, describes the global explosion of interconnected communication devices.  Soon, we will be able to "know anything we want, anytime we want, anywhere we want."

title: The Trillion Sensor World

title: The Future Before Your Eyes

overview: Peter Diamandis, Founder of the XPrize and technology entrepreneur, sees virtual reality transforming how we live, work and shop  -- and artificial intelligence leading us to a Star Trek universe.

title: The Future Before Your Eyes

title: Life In The Future

overview: Michio Kaku, famed theoretical physicist and founder of string field theory, predicts what the future will look like in our day-to-day life.

title: Life In The Future

title: Disrupting Healthcare

overview: Peter Diamandis, Founder of X Prize and technology entrepreneur, believes that personal medical monitors will allow us to become "CEOs of our own health,"  and revolutionize healthcare around the world.

title: Disrupting Healthcare

title: The Final Frontier

overview: Peter Diamandis, Founder of XPrize and technology entrepreneur, is among a group of visionary private citizens determined to open the space frontier and make us a multi-planetary species.

title: The Final Frontier

title: 100 Years From Now, Will We Live Like The Ancient Gods?

overview: How different will life be a century from now? Michio Kaku, famed theoretical physicist and founder of string field theory, reveals his view on the future.

overview: What the future will look like in our day-to-day life?

title: Curious Minds: The Future

original_title: Curious Minds: The Future


title: Rebuilding Ancient Rome

title: Ara Pacis

overview: Archaeologist Dr. Darius Arya tells us that Emperor Augustus declared peace throughout the Roman Empire and commissions the Ara Pacis (Altar of Peace) to commemorate the occasion. The animator working on the 3D model explains the painted sculptures and the layout of the Ancient Roman monument.

title: Ara Pacis

title: Baths of Caracalla

overview: Dr. Darius Arya explains how the Roman Baths functioned with radiant heating and recounts the importance of the Roman Baths in the daily life of Ancient Rome.

title: Baths of Caracalla

title: Circus Maximus

overview: Dr. Darius Arya, archaeologist, tells us that one of Rome's oldest monuments, the Circus, was the biggest sporting venue in the ancient world and continues to be one of the largest venues ever built. It held at least 150,000 spectators. The team working on the 3D model, explain the reconstruction. (TV Episode 2015)

title: Circus Maximus

title: Colosseum (TV Episode 2015)

overview: Dr. Darius Arya, tells us that Nero confiscated the site of the Colosseum to build his Golden House. The Flavian Emperors took the land back and buiIt a sports arena. In the Middle Ages, the Colosseum was named after the "colossal" statue (originally of Nero) that stood in front of it.

title: Colosseum (TV Episode 2015)

title: Curia Julia

overview: Dr. Darius Arya offers an account of the Senate and how it burnt down several times. He explains how much of the ancient city was recycled in later phases of building. The Senate's original doors can be seen today on the Church of San Giovanni.

title: Curia Julia

title: Dominus Aurea Outside

overview: Archaeologist, Dr. Darius Arya, recounts that after the great fire of 64 AD, Emperor Nero took a third of the city to build his Golden House. It was the most opulent palace in all of Rome, if not the entire ancient world, with a lake and vaulted, decorated ceilings among other features.

title: Dominus Aurea Outside

title: Forum Of Augustus

overview: Dr. Arya discusses when and why the Forum of Augustus was constructed. It became the model for all other forums created after it. Fires were so frequent in the ancient city that Augustus protected his forum with an enormous fire-proof wall.

title: Forum Of Augustus

title: Forum Of Peace

overview: The Forum of Peace housed the Forma Urbis. The Forma Urbis was an extremely detailed map of the ancient city. It is the basis for the majority of all reconstructions made of Ancient Rome. Animators of the 3D model explain the research behind the reconstruction of this Ancient Roman monument.

title: Forum Of Peace

title: Harbor Of Trajan

overview: Dr., Darius Arya tells us that Emperor Trajan commissioned an enormous hexagonal port at Ostia to bring goods to Rome. The construction of the harbor changed the Italian coastline. The animator working on the 3D model, explains the research behind the reconstruction of the harbor at Ostia.

title: Harbor Of Trajan

title: Ostia Antica

overview: Ostia Antica started as a fort near the sea along the Tiber River, but as Dr. Arya tell us, it grew to a large city supplying Rome with trade goods from around the world. The population required housing in multi-story buildings shown in their current and past states in 3D animation.

title: Ostia Antica

title: Pantheon

overview: Dr. Arya tells us the history of the Pantheon, dedicated to the pantheon of Roman Gods. Apollodorus of Damascus created the Pantheon structural support for this famous building, the largest unreinforced concrete dome in the world. It survives today because it was turned into a church.

title: Pantheon

title: Stadium Of Domitian

overview: Dr. Darius Arya, standing in modern Piazza Navona, brings the ancient Roman athletic competition to life in this history of the Stadium of Domitian, built as part of Emperor Domitian's (51-96 AD) palace. 3D reconstruction of the stadium is seen in its original location on the Palatine Hill.

title: Stadium Of Domitian

title: Temple Of Jupiter

overview: The Temple of Jupiter was the most important temple in the ancient city. To the Romans, this temple was a symbol of their power and supremacy. The animator reconstructing the 3D model explains the research behind the 3D reconstruction of the Ancient Roman temple dedicated to Jupiter.

title: Temple Of Jupiter

title: Roman Forum

overview: Dr. Darius Arya explains that the Roman Forum was once the center of commercial, religious and political life. The team working on the wire frame for the 3D models explain the research behind the reconstruction of the monuments in the Forum.

title: Roman Forum

title: Theater of Pompey

overview: Dr. Darius Arya tells the fascinating story of Pompey the Great, who cleverly got around Roman law to build his Theater, a symbol of his wealth and power.

title: Theater of Pompey

overview: Supported by stunning 3D graphics, Dr. Darius Arya explains the purpose and architectural significance of ancient Roman buildings.

title: Rebuilding Ancient Rome

character: Presenter

type: Cast

original_title: Rebuilding Ancient Rome


title: The Real Tom Thumb: History's Smallest Superstar, Part 1

overview: The extraordinary story of General Tom Thumb, the world’s first global show business celebrity.  Just 31 inches tall, he went from humble beginnings in America to international superstardom, eventually performing on stage to over 50 million people, including President Lincoln and Queen Victoria.

title: The Real Tom Thumb: History's Smallest Superstar, Part 2

overview: Acclaimed from Australia to Europe, General Tom Thumb was arguably the Victorian equivalent of the modern internet celebrity.  In his 45 years Charles Stratton (his real name) amassed a fortune and led a happily married life while touring the world to perform before sold out audiences.

overview: By age 9, he'd made enough money to retire.  Meet Tom Thumb, protege of P. T. Barnum, and world superstar of the nineteenth century!


title: Curious Minds: Epigenetics

title: Do Genes Determine Our Health?

overview: Dr. Deepak Chopra and Dr. Rudy Tanzi, co-authors of Super Brain, analyze the effects of gene activity on not only our health but also that of our future descendants.

title: Do Genes Determine Our Health?

title: Does Our Environment Change Our Genes?

overview: Dr. Deepak Chopra and Dr. Rudy Tanzi, co-authors of Super Brain, explore how epigenetic influences are changing biological evolution.

title: Does Our Environment Change Our Genes?

overview: Genetics have an impact on our lives and the biological future of mankind.

title: Curious Minds: Epigenetics

original_title: Curious Minds: Epigenetics


title: Big Picture Earth (Music)

title: Katahdin Woods And Water

overview: Maine's Baxter State park is home to streams, lakes, mountain peaks and wildlife.  We meander down trails over lush green mossy banks and wander by picturesque ponds.  Fungi and woodland creatures inhabit these 327 square miles of Acadian woods, which include the mighty Mount Katahdin.

title: Katahdin Woods And Water

title: Greatest Hits

overview: We journey through some of the sites we visit this season -- from the black waters of Okefenokee to the soaring cliffs of Wadi Rum, on to the Venetian canals, the islands of New York and then from Iceland to Colorado's Gateway Canyon.

title: Greatest Hits

title: The Terminal Basin Of Mono Lake

overview: If you follow the eastward flow of fresh water from the Sierra Nevada mountains you will reach Mono Lake.  The million year old lake possesses weird limestone towers called tufa.  Photographers come from all over the world to capture the interplay of light on the mountains, desert, and water.

title: The Terminal Basin Of Mono Lake

title: Fountains Abbey

overview: In 1132, thirteen Cistercian monks began building an abbey in northern England.  They constructed a place for a simple life of devotion and contemplation.  You can now walk through the atmospheric ruins that remain and gaze through a window into a way of life which shaped the medieval world.

title: Fountains Abbey

title: Iceland Glacier Lagoon

overview: With a depth of 800 feet, the Jokulsarion Lagoon is the deepest body of freshwater in Iceland.  Seals are seen either swimming in the lagoon or lying on icebergs that are moving toward the sea. Freezing water laps against the black volcanic sands of the shore.

title: Iceland Glacier Lagoon

title: Central Park, New York

overview: Nestled in the heart of Manhattan, against the backdrop of traffic and soaring skyscrapers, is the iconic Central park -- the most visited urban park in the United States.  Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in 1858, the northern part of the park has a few lesser-known features.

title: Central Park, New York

title: Nabataean Lost Kingdom Of Petra

overview: A walk through a narrow canyon, or siq, leads to an ancient city spectacularly carved from the surrounding cliffs.  You will never forget Petra, the seat of the Nabataean empire which thrived and then disappeared right around the time of Christ's birth.

title: Nabataean Lost Kingdom Of Petra

title: Stonehenge

overview: Built in prehistoric Britain over the course of 1000 years, Stonehenge is one of the most famous megalithic monuments in the world.  In the midst of the ancient, brooding stones on the plains outside Salisbury, you can feel the drama of their 5000 year existence.

title: Stonehenge

title: Moods Of Venice

overview: From the Piazza San Marco we travel through the canals past homes, bridges, moored boats and Madonna Dell'orto, home to the "furious" art of Tintoretto.  We arrive at the Pescaria on the Grand Canal, where fishmongers sell seppioline or triglie, just as their ancestors did 600 years ago.

title: Moods Of Venice

title: Desert Of Wadi Rum

overview: Deep in the Jordanian desert of Wadi Rum, three camels and their driver trek across the dunes.  Ancient inscriptions left by the Bedouins, Nabataeans and other ancient peoples are still legible despite the centuries of winds and sand blowing across the landscape.

title: Desert Of Wadi Rum

title: Okefenokee Blackwater Swamp

overview: The Great Okefenokee Swamp is one of North America’s most unspoiled, fascinating and precious natural areas.  The slow, black water moves amongst tangled cypress, and alligators lurk in the shadows.

title: Okefenokee Blackwater Swamp

title: The Acropolis Of Athens

overview: Rising from the cypress and poplar trees, on a rocky outcrop above Athens, sists the Acropolis.  The 2000 year old Parthenon is but one of its structures.  Poppies and wildflowers poke through cracks in the stone, adding contemporary accents of green, pink and purple to the pale marble.

title: The Acropolis Of Athens

title: The Young Earth Of The Reykjanes Peninsula

overview: At first approach, the Rekyjanes Peninsula appears to be a motionless, post-apocalyptic landscape.  A closer look reveals evidence of the 10,000 mile long Mid-Atlantic Ridge and plate tectonics: sulfur springs, fumaroles, geysers, and the reds, oranges and whites of microbial thermophiles.

title: Canyons Of The Ancient Ones

overview: The Ancestral Puebloan peoples settled the Mesa Verde region of Colorado as early as 550 AD.  They built communities high up in the imposing cliffs.  Today, the profound quiet of their former dwellings is broken only by the doves, finches and the wind in the sagebrush.

title: Canyons Of The Ancient Ones

title: The Oracle At Delphi

overview: Overlooking the valley of Pleistos and nestled halfway up Mount Parnassus in Greece sits the famed Oracle of Delphi.  Built over 2700 years ago, in ancient times Delphi welcomed religious pilgrims, rulers, and athletes of the Pythian Games.  A famous maxim carved in stone there is "Know Thyself".

title: The Oracle At Delphi

title: Slot Canyons Of Utah

overview: One hundred eighty million years ago, fierce trade winds blew copious amounts of quartz sand across what is today the state of Utah.  These sands piled up into giant dunes, in an area larger than the Sahara.  Time is the sculptor of this vivid red canyon and its work here is not yet finished.

title: Slot Canyons Of Utah

title: Colorado Canyons Of Time

overview: Rivers carved deeply through the red sandstone plateaus and formed Gateway Canyon more than 5 million years ago.  Petrogylphs drawn by prehistoric man, as well as dinosaur tracks from even earlier inhabitants of the area, make this trip out West a not-to-be-missed experience.

title: Colorado Canyons Of Time

title: Shooter's Island Of New York City

overview: With a history going back to use as a spy nest in the Revolutionary War,  Shooter's Island has gone through several transformations until being turned into a park in the 1970's.  Now at least seven species of wading birds breed here, and forty-three species have been seen on the island.

title: Shooter's Island Of New York City

title: Cumberland Island

overview: We travel to the historic site of Cumberland Island where Native Americans, missionaries, enslaved African Americans and wealthy Industrialists all walked through pristine maritime forests and along stunning natural beaches. A highlight is the ruins of Dungeness, the Carnegie family compound there.

title: Cumberland Island

title: Alewives Eternal Return

overview: At dawn on the Damariscotta River in Maine, the mist rises slowly around an army of herring gulls on the banks.  They carefully watch the flowing waters.  Beneath the surface, alewives swim slowly but persistently upstream, as they have for millions of years, in a gauntlet of death and birth.

title: Alewives Eternal Return

overview: From award-winning filmmaker, David Conover of "Sunrise Earth", a 4K journey to twenty of the most spectacular locations in the world.

title: Big Picture Earth (Music)

original_title: Big Picture Earth (Music)


title: Curious Minds: Brain Health

title: The Amazing Childhood Brain

overview: Frances Jensen, neurologist and author of "The Teenage Brain," sheds light on the surprising capabilities of the childhood brain.

title: The Amazing Childhood Brain

title: Are Teenagers Better at Multitasking?

overview: Frances Jensen, neurologist and author of "The Teenage Brain," investigates the timeless question of whether adolescents are better at multi-tasking than adults.

title: Are Teenagers Better at Multitasking?

title: Why Do Teenagers Sleep So Much?

overview: Frances Jensen, neurologist and author of "The Teenage Brain," uncovers the truth about bizarre sleep patterns and fatigue in adolescents.

title: Why Do Teenagers Sleep So Much?

title: The Teenage Brain and Mental Illness

overview: Frances Jensen, neurologist and author of "The Teenage Brain," explains why the first signs of mental illness often emerge during adolescence.

title: The Teenage Brain and Mental Illness

title: What Makes the Teenage Brain So Dangerous?

overview: Frances Jensen, neurologist and author of "The Teenage Brain," offers a revolutionary explanation for risky behavior in adolescents.

title: Are There Drugs To Prevent Alzheimer's?

overview: Dr. Rudy Tanzi, neurologist and co-discoverer of the Alzheimer's gene, summarizes the available medications used to fight Alzheimer's Disease.

title: Are There Drugs To Prevent Alzheimer's?

title: Can A Blow To The Head Cause Alzheimer's?

overview: Dr. Rudy Tanzi, neurologist and co-discoverer of the Alzheimer's gene, shares how traumatic brain injuries could potentially lead to Alzheimer's Disease or dementia.

title: Can Alzheimer's Be Prevented?

overview: Dr. Rudy Tanzi, neurologist and co-discoverer of the Alzheimer's gene, shows us how to reduce the risks of contracting Alzheimer's Disease.

title: Can Alzheimer's Be Prevented?

title: Can We Really Cure Depression?

overview: Evolutionary psychologist Nancy Etcoff explores whether there will ever be a true 'cure' for depression.

title: Can We Really Cure Depression?

title: Do Genes Determine Alzheimer's?

overview: Dr. Rudy Tanzi, neurologist and co-discoverer of the Alzheimer's gene, examines the role of genetics in Alzheimer's Disease.

title: Do Genes Determine Alzheimer's?

title: How Do We Eradicate Alzheimer's?

overview: Dr. Rudy Tanzi, neurologist and co-discoverer of the Alzheimer's gene, expresses his view on how Alzheimer's can be eliminated in future generations.

title: How Do We Eradicate Alzheimer's?

title: Is There A Connection Between Alzheimer's And Parkinson's?

overview: The similarities between Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease are explored by Dr. Rudy Tanzi, neurologist and co-discoverer of the Alzheimer's gene.

title: How Many People In The U.S. Have Alzheimer's?

overview: Dr. Rudy Tanzi, neurologist and co-discoverer of the Alzheimer's gene, relates the extent of the population affected by Alzheimer's Disease.

title: Is Alzheimer's A Deadly Disease?

overview: Dr. Rudy Tanzi, neurologist and co-discoverer of the Alzheimer's gene, describes how Alzheimer's can lead to death as well as how long one can live with the disease.

title: Is Alzheimer's A Deadly Disease?

title: Understanding Alzheimer's

overview: Dr. Rudy Tanzi, neurologist and co-discoverer of the Alzheimer's gene, provides an overview of this heartbreaking disease that is quickly becoming a worldwide epidemic.

title: Understanding Alzheimer's

title: What Are The Burdens On The Alzheimer's Caregiver?

overview: Dr. Rudy Tanzi, neurologist and co-discoverer of the Alzheimer's gene, explores the emotional and financial costs of the disease on Alzheimer's caregivers.

title: What Causes Dementia?

overview: Dr. Rudy Tanzi, neurologist and co-discoverer of the Alzheimer's gene, discusses the physical changes that occur in the brain that lead to dementia.

title: What Causes Dementia?

title: What Is Late On-Set Alzheimer's?

overview: As we get older, is Alzheimer's Disease inevitable? Dr. Rudy Tanzi, neurologist and co-discoverer of the Alzheimer's gene, takes a look at the probability of developing the disease.

title: What Is Late On-Set Alzheimer's?

title: Is Epilepsy More Common Than We Think?

overview: Frances Jensen, neurologist and author of "The Teenage Brain," explains why all of us should be prepared for the possible onset of epilepsy at some point in our lives.

title: Is Epilepsy More Common Than We Think?

title: What Is Still Unknown About The Brain?

overview: Dr. Rudy Tanzi, neurologist and co-discoverer of the Alzheimer's gene, explains our current understanding of the human brain.

title: What Is Still Unknown About The Brain?

title: What's The Difference Between Alzheimer's And Dementia?

overview: Dr. Rudy Tanzi, neurologist and co-discoverer of the Alzheimer's gene, looks at the difference between Alzheimer's disease and dementia.

title: When Does Alzheimer's Begin To Develop?

overview: Dr. Rudy Tanzi, neurologist and co-discoverer of the Alzheimer's gene, examines the pathology that will eventually lead to Alzheimer's Disease.

title: When Does Alzheimer's Begin To Develop?

title: Will We Ever Cure Alzheimer's?

overview: The cure for Alzheimer's could be right around the corner. Dr. Rudy Tanzi, neurologist and co-discoverer of the Alzheimer's gene, describes how we might reach this fundamental milestone.

title: Will We Ever Cure Alzheimer's?

overview: What do we know about Alzheimer's and other diseases of the brain?  As we age, how does the brain change and adjust?

title: Curious Minds: Brain Health

original_title: Curious Minds: Brain Health


title: Curious Minds: The Cosmos

title: Ancient Scientists

overview: Physicist Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies, describes why early man has much to teach us about appreciating the wonder of existence.

title: Ancient Scientists

title: Are There More Than Three Dimensions?

overview: Lisa Randall, theoretical physicist and leading particle and cosmology expert, shares her view on the possibility of extra dimensions and what their discovery would mean for our understanding of physics.

title: Are There More Than Three Dimensions?

title: Cosmic DNA

overview: Physicist Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies, explains how the moment after the Big Bang shaped the structure of the Universe.

title: Cosmic DNA

title: Guardians Of The Universe

overview: Physicist Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies, contends that it is our responsibility to observe, appreciate and share the wonders of the cosmos.

title: Guardians Of The Universe

title: Infinite Universes

overview: Physicist Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies, elucidates the Infinite possibilities that lie beyond our universe.

title: Infinite Universes

title: The Birth Of Cosmology

overview: Physicist Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies, describes how Einstein's Theory of Relativity shocked scientists' beliefs about the nature of time.

title: The Birth Of Cosmology

overview: How can we define and understand what our universe is made of?

title: Curious Minds: The Cosmos

original_title: Curious Minds: The Cosmos


title: Why Are We Here?

title: Episode 1: Meaning Seeking Beings

overview: Is it possible to reconcile meaning, purpose and perhaps even God with the workings of a purely material universe?  A physics professor and a documentary filmmaker set out to do just that. Can one defend meaning and purpose in life from reductionist science if God is not part of the argument?

title: Episode 1: Meaning Seeking Beings

title: Episode 2: The Reality Of Ideas

overview: In a material world true knowledge can come from the things we can see, hear and touch.  But are there other truths we can discover which come from pure thought or imagination?

title: Episode 2: The Reality Of Ideas

title: Episode 3: The Animal Within

overview: Is it possible that science can tell us what is and isn’t moral or do moral truths lie outside of science?  In every culture in every age we have always felt we were moral, but do our animal instincts and desires make that an illusion?

title: Episode 3: The Animal Within

title: Episode 4: The Moral Compass

overview: Light and dark. Life and death. Opposites imposed by the universe itself.  But what of good and evil? Are these ideas humans have created for themselves? Or are they,  perhaps, a fundamental part of the universe, like north and south?

title: Episode 4: The Moral Compass

overview: This series asks if we are really creatures who seek meaning in a universe where none exists?  Can science alone provide answers, or not?

title: Why Are We Here?

title: Why Are We Here?

overview: Deze serie vraagt zich af of we werkelijk wezens zijn die betekenis zoeken in een universum waar die niet bestaat? Kan de wetenschap alleen antwoorden geven, of niet?

character: Self - Host

original_title: Why Are We Here?


title: Curious Minds: Marine Conservation

title: Rising Sea Levels And Coastal Cities

overview: Conservationist David Shaw explores the growing threat of rising sea levels to coastal communities around the world.

title: Rising Sea Levels And Coastal Cities

title: The Challenges Of Ocean Conservation

overview: Conservationist David Shaw explores the challenge of building public support for global ocean protection.

title: The Challenges Of Ocean Conservation

title: The Growing Ocean Crisis

overview: Conservationist David Shaw explains the potentially catastrophic consequences of ocean warming and acidification.

title: The Growing Ocean Crisis

title: What Is The Sargasso Sea Alliance?

overview: Conservationist David Shaw explains the role of the Sargasso Sea Alliance in protecting open oceans around the world.

title: What Is The Sargasso Sea Alliance?

title: Balancing Biodiversity: Population Growth

overview: Andrew Sharpless, CEO of Oceana, discusses how we can protect ocean biodiversity but feed the growing global population.

title: How Can We Reduce Bycatch?

overview: Andrew Sharpless, CEO of Oceana, explains bycatch and how it impacts ocean biodiversity.

title: How Can We Reduce Bycatch?

title: Is Farm Fishing A Viable Solution?

overview: Andrew Sharpless, CEO of Oceana, explains how farm fishing is either eco friendly or unfriendly depending on how the fish are fed.

title: Is Farm Fishing A Viable Solution?

overview: How can we conserve and protect the oceans and the many lifeforms with the coastal and deep waters?

title: Curious Minds: Marine Conservation

original_title: Curious Minds: Marine Conservation


title: Destination: Pluto

name: Exploring Pluto's surface | Planet Explorers | BBC Earth

site: YouTube

type: Trailer

title: Part 1: Close Encounters Of The Plutonian Kind

overview: Follow the timeline of the New Horizons mission from its inception to the date of its close encounter with Pluto.  Watch initial reactions from those closest to the mission.

title: Part 2: Pluto Or Bust

overview: The controversial debate of Pluto's planetary status is explored.

title: Part 2: Pluto Or Bust

title: Part 3: Into The Kuiper Belt

overview: As New Horizons gets ever closer to its final destination of Pluto, we take a look at the instruments onboard the spacecraft. How do they work, and what will they help us learn about this distant planet?

title: Part 3: Into The Kuiper Belt

title: Part 4: The Mapmaker's Dream

overview: As the New Horizons spacecraft gets ever closer to Pluto, the images being relayed back to Earth are superior to anything we've seen before. Take a look at how we're mapping the surface, and the new knowledge gleaned as New Horizons approaches its target.

title: Part 4: The Mapmaker's Dream

title: Part 5:  Looking Back, Looking Forward

overview: Weeks from its final destination, the New Horizons spacecraft is now closer to Pluto than any other man-made craft has ever been. Although it's been smooth sailing so far, the dangers will increase exponentially as it encounters Pluto's planetary orbit.

title: Part 5:  Looking Back, Looking Forward

title: Part 6: The Shoals Of Pluto

overview: New Horizons journey to Pluto is winding down, and its destination is dead-ahead. The images being sent to Earth are unlike anything we've seen before - find out what we're learning about this unexplored dwarf planet.

title: Part 6: The Shoals Of Pluto

title: Part 7: Behind The Scenes With Alan Stern

overview: With a mere hours to go until the New Horizons spacecraft reaches its destination of Pluto, we check in with Alan Stern, the principal investigator of the team.  Watch the latest news and reactions from Mission Control.

title: Part 8: The "Giant Heart" On Pluto

overview: On the day of their spacecraft's historic Pluto flyby, the New Horizons team discusses its last transmission to Earth - and what it's already telling us about the previously unseen surface of the last major unexplored body in our Solar System, Pluto.

title: Part 8: The "Giant Heart" On Pluto

title: Part 9: The Pluto Flyby

overview: Be present as the NASA New Horizons team celebrates the moment of the New Horizons probe reaching Pluto, thus achieving the initial reconnaissance of our solar system.  An achievement 9 years in the making, the Mission's success is an outstanding accomplishment.

title: Part 9: The Pluto Flyby

title: Part 10: New Horizons Calls Home

overview: The second day of the Pluto flyby --- initial transmissions have successfully reached Earth, the team is excited.  And Pluto is more than ready for its first close-ups!

title: Part 10: New Horizons Calls Home

title: Part 11: New Horizons - Pluto Flyby Images

overview: Pictures worth waiting 9 years to get!  The New Horizons team shows off the first batch of photos communicated from the New Horizons space probe 3 billion miles away; stunning images of Pluto and moon.

title: Part 12:  The Surface of Pluto

overview: The New Horizons mission has been a success, and as photographs and data continue to be transmitted back to Earth, scientists can now, for the first time, look at 3D images of the surface of this distant dwarf planet.

title: Part 12:  The Surface of Pluto

title: Part 13: The Right Stuff

overview: As the series comes to a close, new observations from mountain ranges to a blue atmosphere are being discovered.  What does the data show us, and where is New Horizons heading next?  Team members break it down for us, as well as describe "the right stuff" necessary for a successful space mission.

title: Part 13: The Right Stuff

overview: It was a rendezvous a decade in the making. The New Horizons spacecraft rocketed from Earth to provide the first ever close-ups of the farthest planet in our solar system, Pluto. Join New Horizons and its team as it makes its historic approach, revealing a world unlike any other we've ever seen. Interviews with leading team members and planetary scientists will help us unlock the secrets of this far away planet.

title: Destination: Pluto

character: Self

character: Narrator

job: Director

department: Directing

type: Crew

job: Writer

department: Writing

job: Producer

department: Production

job: Editor

department: Editing

job: Camera Operator

department: Camera

original_title: Destination: Pluto


title: Super Smart Animals

title: Practical Intelligence

overview: A look at how animals use tools and intelligence to solve puzzles that even baffle humans.  Chimps, Dolphins, Humpback whales and Homing Pigeons display various types of intelligence when solving problems or interacting with each other.

title: Practical Intelligence

title: Praktická inteligence

overview: Praktická inteligence

title: 第 1 集 实用智能

overview: 看看动物是如何利用工具和智慧来解决甚至令人类困惑的难题的。黑猩猩、海豚、座头鲸和归巢鸽在解决问题或相互交流时显示出各种类型的智能。

title: 1. Bölüm Pratik Zeka

overview: Hayvanların, insanları bile şaşırtan bulmacaları çözmek için araçları ve zekalarını nasıl kullandıklarına bir bakış.  Şempanzeler, yunuslar, kambur balinalar ve posta güvercinleri, sorunları çözerken veya birbirleriyle etkileşime girerken çeşitli zeka türleri sergilerler.

title: Social Intelligence

overview: Exciting new experiments reveal animals' most sophisticated forms of intelligence - their awareness, consciousness and emotions.  We now see that animals as large as elephants and as small as prairie dogs communicate personally, as well as among communities, in an amazing manner.

title: Social Intelligence

title: Sociální inteligence

overview: Sociální inteligence

title: 第 2 集 社交智能

overview: 令人振奋的新实验揭示了动物最复杂的智能形式--它们的意识、知觉和情感。我们现在看到，大到大象、小到草原犬的动物都以惊人的方式进行个人交流，以及群体之间的交流。

title: 2. Bölüm Sosyal Zeka

overview: Heyecan verici yeni deneyler, hayvanların en gelişmiş zeka biçimlerini, yani farkındalıklarını, bilinçlerini ve duygularını ortaya koyuyor.  Artık fil kadar büyük ve çayır köpeği kadar küçük hayvanların hem kendi aralarında hem de topluluklar arasında şaşırtıcı bir şekilde kişisel iletişim kurduğunu görüyoruz.

overview: By showing us how animals and birds strategize and think, this series challenges our own perceptions of what it means to be intelligent.

title: Super Smart Animals

title: Geniální zvířata

overview: Zmínky o tom, že by zvířata komunikovala, řešila problémy nebo dokonce prožívala emoce po staletí nikdo nebral vážně. To se ale mění. Průlomové studie z celého světa ukazují, že jsou mnohem inteligentnější, než si myslíme. Ale kam až jejich inteligence dosahuje? Třeba u psů jezdících na skateboardech? Nebo u geniálních šimpanzů? Připravte se na to, že vás oslní, pobaví či dokonce přechytračí některá z nejbystřejších zvířecích myslí vůbec.

title: 小动物大智慧

overview: 通过向我们展示动物和鸟类是如何制定战略和思考的，这个系列挑战了我们自己对智能意味着什么的看法。

title: Animales superdotados

overview: Conozca la mente animal y la habilidad que tienen de entender y manipular el mundo que los rodea.

title: Huippuälykkäät eläimet

overview: Kaksiosainen dokumenttisarja kertoo eläinten älykkyydestä. Mikä tekee toisista eläimistä älykkäämpiä kuin toisista? Voisiko jokin toinen eläinlaji joskus olla älykkäämpi kuin ihminen?

title: Süper Zeki Hayvanlar

overview: Bu dizi, hayvanların ve kuşların nasıl strateji geliştirdiğini ve düşündüğünü göstererek, zeki olmanın ne anlama geldiğine dair kendi algılarımızı sorgulamamızı sağlıyor.

character: Self - Presenter

original_title: Super Smart Animals


title: Kim Philby - His Most Intimate Betrayal

title: Part 1

overview: In this two part special, best-selling author Ben Macintyre explores Kim Philby, the most famous double agent in history.  Philby was a man of contradictions - charming and courteous, but also a fanatic and a ruthless killer, who deceived his colleagues in MI6 and MI5 and the CIA.

title: Part 1

title: Part 2

title: Part 2

title: Kim Philby - His Most Intimate Betrayal

title: 金·菲尔比：冷战双面间谍

overview: 作家本·麦金泰尔探索了现代史上最著名的双重间谍之一哈罗德·金·菲尔比背后的真相。

title: 金·菲爾比：冷戰雙面間諜

overview: 作家本·麥金泰爾探索了現代史上最著名的雙重間諜之一哈洛迪文·金·菲爾比背後的真相。

original_title: Kim Philby - His Most Intimate Betrayal


title: Curious Minds: Technology

title: Library Of The 21st Century

overview: Michael Keller, University Librarian, Stanford University, discusses the ways digitizing assets can not only preserve them, but enable them to be shared.  Libraries are becoming cultural custodians opening resources to the world.

title: Library Of The 21st Century

title: Preservation & Social Media: The Digital Perspective

overview: Michael Keller, University Librarian at Stanford University, wonders if you can save everything happening on the web and social platforms, and if you could, should you?

title: Dealing With Information Overload

overview: John Seely Brown, Technology and Research expert, provides an easy solution to a modern problem: information overload.

title: Dealing With Information Overload

title: The Power Of Technology

overview: John Seely Brown, Technology and Research expert, revisits his time at the Palo Alto Research Center and his experience in developing user-centric computing systems.

title: The Power Of Technology

title: What Is Ubiquitous Computing?

overview: John Seely Brown, Technology and Research expert, discusses the future of technology and the way society will be improved by it.

title: What Is Ubiquitous Computing?

title: Education In The Age Of Technology

overview: John Seely Brown, Technology and Research expert, foresees a change of the traditional structures of learning because of technology.

title: Education In The Age Of Technology

title: Can We Create Self-Aware Robots?

overview: As technology continues to improve, Dr. Deepak Chopra and Dr. Rudy Tanzi, co-authors of Super Brain, look at whether or not robots will "come alive."

title: Can We Create Self-Aware Robots?

overview: Technology, love it or hate it, its effects are shaping our lives and our futures.

title: Curious Minds: Technology

original_title: Curious Minds: Technology


title: Conversations with Dolphins

title: Part 1

overview: Dolphins have been a source of curiosity to humans and have appeared in our stories and myths for thousands of years. What is the link between our two species? Why do we seem to be so interested and curious about each other?

title: Part 1

title: Part 2

overview: Scientists around the world are asking themselves the same questions. Over the decades the focus on dolphin research has changed from asking “how intelligent are dolphins?” to “how are dolphins intelligent?” and we look at research from the world's foremost dolphin experts for the answers.

title: Part 2

overview: Do dolphins think the way we do or are their brains wired in a very different way from ours?  Will we communicate with them one day?

title: Conversations with Dolphins

title: Komunikace s delfíny

overview: Jeden vědec vytváří nástroje sloužící ke komunikaci s delfíny, zatímco odborníci na delfíny zkoumají inteligenci tohoto druhu.

title: Keskustelut delfiinien kanssa

overview: Tutkija kehittää välineitä kommunikointiin delfiinien kanssa, samalla kun asiantuntijat perehtyvät lajin älykkyysominaisuuksiin.

original_title: Conversations with Dolphins


title: Project Petroglyph

title: Part 1: Crossroads

overview: Take a journey with the Project Petroglyph team into the Colorado Canyons to discover ancient stories of our past.

title: Part 1: Crossroads

title: Part 2: Petroglyphs And The Plateau

overview: Learn about CyArk's cutting edge 3D scanning technology used to understand and digitally preserve 3000 year old rock art in Western Colorado.

title: Part 2: Petroglyphs And The Plateau

title: Part 3: Mankind's Everlasting Impressions

overview: Rick Bowers, Zebulon Miracle and Alex Reinhold return to basecamp to reveal the stunning 3D images captured on the Colorado Plateau and discuss the importance of digitally preserving ancestral art for the future of mankind.

overview: Who is preserving the ancient writings of our ancestors?  How are they using technology to keep the record of ancient designs and writings?

title: Project Petroglyph

original_title: Project Petroglyph


title: 我们能相信科学吗?

title: Part 1: Diet Clinic

overview: Over a third of us are overweight and we spend billions of dollars a year trying to get thin. Professor Regan takes on the diet industry. Using herself as a guinea pig, she will discover what to eat to lose 10 lbs a year, and lead us to the truths about successful, lasting weight loss.

title: Part 1: Diet Clinic

title: Part 2: Pharmacy

overview: Professor Regan goes behind the pharmacy counter to find out if the millions we spend on products from cold remedies to herbal medicines are worth it. Drawing on her own experience both as a doctor and a breast cancer patient, she investigates the ultimate cure for the common cold, and homeopathy.

title: Part 2: Pharmacy

title: Part 3: Nursery

overview: Professor Regan investigates the lucrative world of children's products. She gets to the truth behind claims cereals can improve children's performance at school, investigates the research behind the famous Omega-3 fish oils, and checks formula milk to see how it compares with breast milk.

title: Part 3: Nursery

title: Part 4: Health Spa

overview: Professor Regan investigates the world of beauty, where a scientific sales pitch can make you millions. From anti-aging injections to detox products, she discovers if there  are scientifically proven ways to make you look younger, keep your skin silky smooth, and give you the perfect body.

title: Part 4: Health Spa

overview: From painkillers to creams; wholegrain foods to Atkins diet, Professor Regan takes a hard look at the evidence to decide what really works.

title: 我们能相信科学吗?

title: ¿Podemos creer en la ciencia?

overview: Desde analgésicos hasta cremas; alimentos integrales a la dieta Atkins, el profesor Regan analiza detenidamente la evidencia para decidir qué es lo que realmente funciona.

title: 我们能相信科学吗?

original_title: 我们能相信科学吗?


title: Tales Of Nature

title: Forests In The Mist

overview: An immense forest covers 60% of the Vosges mountains, home to a wealth of plant and animal species: large mammals and microscopic insects live side by side beneath the tall trees.  And both plants and animals are subject to the cycle of sunlight available through the dense foliage.

title: Forests In The Mist

title: Лес, скрытый в тумане гор

overview: Около 60% всей площади склонов горного массива Вогезы покрывают леса, где обитают самые разные животные: от крупных млекопитающих до крошечных насекомых. Жизнь флоры и фауны в этих лесах напрямую зависит от количества солнечного света, пробивающегося сквозь густую листву.

title: As The River Flows

overview: The Loire is one of Europe's last free-flowing rivers − one of the few whose banks have not been developed and confined by man. As the seasons change, its water level rises and falls and the morphology of the river-bed alters. How do plants and animals adjust to these variations?

title: As The River Flows

title: В потоке реки

overview: Луара — одна из самых быстротекущих рек в Европе и одна из немногих европейских рек, на берегах которых практически нет сельскохозяйственных угодий. Это связано с тем, что во время дождей на Луаре происходят сильные наводнения, и русло реки постоянно меняется. Как животные и растения приспосабливаются к этим изменениям?

title: Between Cliff-top And Ocean

overview: On the shores of Bretagne, breakers have been crashing onto the Atlantic coast for thousands of years. It is a mineral world of earth, rock and water, swept by raging winds. The cliffs there are a haven for flora and fauna, one of Europe's distinctive natural ecosystems.

title: Between Cliff-top And Ocean

title: Между скалами и океаном

overview: За тысячи лет на атлантическом побережье Бретани сложилась уникальная природная экосистема. В этой серии мы расскажем о растениях и животных, населяющих прибрежные утесы Бретани, где волны бьются о скалы и всегда дует ветер.

title: In Beating Sun

overview: In Provence, the garrigues and steppes of the Mediterranean are home to some startlingly exotic wildlife.The Sun reigns supreme here from spring until high summer, subjecting living things to ever hotter temperatures as the day progresses. How do plants and animals withstand the scorching heat?

title: In Beating Sun

title: Под палящим солнцем

overview: Средиземноморские и прованские степи населяют удивительные животные и растения. С весны до конца лета здесь стоит жаркая, солнечная погода. Как здешняя флора и фауна выживает в условиях палящего зноя?

title: Kingdom of the Birds

overview: The point where the English Channel meets the North Sea is a huge migratory hub. Numerous bird species come to this section of the west coast of Europe to rest, feed and bring up their young. For them, the flat, windswept landscape is paradise.

title: Kingdom of the Birds

title: Царство птиц

overview: Там, где пролив Ла-Манш впадает в Северное море, располагается крупный "транспортный узел" для перелетных птиц. Многие виды птиц прилетают на западное побережье Европы, где отдыхают во время миграций, кормятся и выводят птенцов.

title: Land Of A Thousand Lakes

overview: In the heart of Berry, in France, inland lakes and fens harbor a wide variety of birds and mammals. These mysterious, ancient landscapes are home to some highly unusual wildlife that inhabit both water and land, like the European pond turtle.

title: Land Of A Thousand Lakes

title: Край тысячи озёр

overview: Провинцию Берри в центральной части Франции называют краем тысячи озер. В здешний озерах и болотах, а также вблизлежащих районах водятся самые разные животные, например, европейские болотные черепахи.

title: Nature In The City Of Lights

overview: Within the confines of Paris, in an urban setting so dominated by humans, what space is left for nature?  Yet plants and animals, tough and adaptable, manage to survive in The City of Lights.

title: Nature In The City Of Lights

title: Городская природа

overview: В Париже, как и почти в любом большом городе, сохранились островки дикой природы. В этой серии мы расскажем о диких растениях и животных, приспособившихся к жизни в Городе света.

title: The Secret Life Of The Bocage

overview: The ordinary-looking bocage landscape has an extraordinary tale to tell. This familiar vista of hedges and pasture is man-made, created centuries ago and maintained ever since. Yet it teems with wildlife. How have the plants and animals of the bushes and meadows adapted to their environment?

title: The Secret Life Of The Bocage

title: Тайная жизнь в Бокаже

overview: Сельские пейзажи, состоящие из зеленых кустарников, лугов и пастбищ, на первый взгляд кажутся совершенно непримечательными. Но даже там встречаются удивительные растения и животные. В этой серии мы расскажем, как луговая и кустарниковая флора и фауна приспосабливается к своему окружению.

title: Treasures Of The Deep

overview: Corsica is an island full of natural treasures!  Its beaches are lapped by the Mediterranean; its sea-bed harbors strange and wonderful creatures, some of them found nowhere else in the world.  Take a look at this unique, beautiful coastal ecosystem.

title: Treasures Of The Deep

title: Сокровища глубин

overview: Корсика — остров природных сокровищ! На его берегах и в прибрежных водных зонах водятся удивительные животные, причем некоторых из них не встретишь больше нигде в мире. В этой серии мы познакомимся с уникальной морской экосистемой Корсики.

title: Alpine Peaks

overview: The Alpine peaks are one of Europe's distinctive natural ecosystems. One in particular, Mont Blanc, has soared into the sky for millions of years.  Take a look at the plants and animals who have adapted to Its extreme conditions − violent winds, sheer rock faces, polar temperatures and avalanches.

title: Alpine Peaks

title: Альпы

overview: Альпы это не только горы, но и уникальная экосистема в центре Европы. Здесь же находится гора Монблан, высочайшая вершина Европы. В этой серии мы расскажем о растениях и животных, приспособившихся к суровым условиям жизни на высокогорье: к постоянным ветрам, каменистой почве, низким температурам и снежным лавинам.

overview: This wildlife series looks at Europe's typical ecosystems - Atlantic coast, forests, farmland, mountains and Mediterranean sea bottoms.

title: Tales Of Nature

title: Наблюдая за природой

overview: Отправляйтесь в путешествие по свету вместе с авторами проекта, чтобы увидеть уникальные природные экосистемы. Исследуйте горные массивы Вогезы и присоединяйтесь к эспедиции в Альпы. Посмотрите, как приспособились к регулярным наводнениям обитатели берегов Луары. Ознакомьтесь с тем, как флора и фауна прованских степей изобрели свои способы выживания под палящим солнцем. Кто проживает на атлантическом побережье Бретани и как выглядит «транспортный узел» для перелётных птиц?

original_title: Tales Of Nature


title: Shakespeare And Us

title: Part 1: This England

overview: What influences of his time and situation led to the creation of Shakespeare's masterly plays?  Simon Schama explores the history, political and religious intrigues and the tenor of the times that allowed a man from Stratford on Avon to write plays performed for the Queen -- that live on today.

title: Part 1: This England

title: Part 2: Hollow Crowns

overview: Shakespeare lived in perilous times and his plays contain ideas dangerous in his time--and ours.  Judi Dench, Tobias Menzies and others perform Shakespeare's most moving and profound soliloquies, as we look at Shakespeare's take on monarchy, power, corruption, madness and the human condition.

title: Part 2: Hollow Crowns

overview: Simon Schama explores the life and times of William Shakespeare to shed a new light on some of the greatest plays ever written.

title: Shakespeare And Us

original_title: Shakespeare And Us


title: Curious Minds:  Global Food Supply

title: Farm Of The 21st Century

overview: Agricultural scientist Sonny Ramaswamy explores the surprising role technology will play in the future of farming.

title: Farm Of The 21st Century

title: How Much Food Do We Waste?

overview: Agricultural scientist Sonny Ramaswamy reveals the staggering global impact of wasted food.

title: How Much Food Do We Waste?

title: Overuse Of Antibiotics In Farming

overview: Agricultural scientist Sonny Ramaswamy discusses the role of antibiotics in modern farming.

title: Overuse Of Antibiotics In Farming

title: The Future Of Food Security

overview: Agricultural scientist Sonny Ramaswamy discusses the challenges of feeding the growing global population.

title: The Future Of Food Security

title: What Is Food Security?

overview: Agricultural scientist Sonny Ramaswamy explains what the term 'food security' means in people's daily lives.

title: What Is Food Security?

overview: What does 'food security' mean in our daily lives?  What are the factors affecting food supplies and distribution around the world?

title: Curious Minds:  Global Food Supply

original_title: Curious Minds:  Global Food Supply


title: Climate Change By The Numbers

title: Episode 1

overview: Mathematicians Dr. Hannah Fry, Prof. Norman Fenton and Prof. David Spiegelhalter reveal the three numbers that tell the story about the past, present and future of the earth's climate.

title: Episode 2

overview: A look at scientists' claims about human contribution to global warming, and how statistician Leonard Tippet's investigation into snapping cotton threads helps predict extreme weather.

overview: Earth's climate is changing - understanding how has become one of the biggest scientific projects ever undertaken.

title: Climate Change By The Numbers

title: Климатичните промени в числа

overview: В същината на обсъждането на климатичните промени има парадокс. Никога не сме имало повече сведения за измененията в климата, но дали обществото разбира какво всъщност става? Трима математици представят значението на стойностите 0.85º 95% 1 трилион тона.

title: Klímaváltozás számokban

overview: Ez az érdekes adatokkal tarkított műsor azokat a számokat mutatja be nekünk, melyekről folyamatosan beszélünk, ha a klímaváltozás szóba jön. A Föld éghajlata változik, ez egy tény, ám az ide vezetők okokról keveset tudunk. Műsorunknak hála, sok mindenre fény derülhet.

title: İklim Değişikliği

title: Climate Change By The Numbers

overview: Het klimaat op aarde is aan het veranderen. Het begrijpen hiervan is een van de grootste wetenschappelijke projecten ooit geworden.

original_title: Climate Change By The Numbers


title: Curious Minds: Creativity

title: Can Science And Art Be Combined?

overview: Bran Ferren, design and technology innovator, proposes the melding of Science and Art as a natural option to lead a wholesome life.

title: Can Science And Art Be Combined?

title: A Life-changing Moment

overview: Bran Ferren, design and technology innovator, recalls a childhood vacation to the Pantheon and the impact of this trip in his life and career.

title: A Life-changing Moment

title: Is Creativity Derived From Imagination?

overview: John Seely Brown, Technology and Research expert, explains the creative potential of our imagination in shaping or constructing new realities.

title: Is Creativity Derived From Imagination?

title: Can Science Be Creative?

overview: Lisa Randall, theoretical physicist and leading particle and cosmology expert, explains the role of creativity in the subject of science.

title: Can Science Be Creative?

title: Creativity In Innovation

overview: Bran Ferren, design and technology innovator, explains the importance of tapping into creativity to find new solutions.

title: Creativity In Innovation

title: How Do We Know What We Know?

overview: Dr. Deepak Chopra and Dr. Rudy Tanzi, co-authors of Super Brain, examine the origins of creativity and insight.

title: How Do We Know What We Know?

title: Orchestrating Serendipity

overview: John Seely Brown, Technology and Research expert, urges us to step outside of our comfort zone in order to find new things and rethink our learned knowledge.

title: Orchestrating Serendipity

title: Rethinking The World

overview: John Seely Brown, Technology and Research expert, highlights the value of the arts in understanding life and an ever-changing world.

title: Rethinking The World

title: What Drives Innovation?

overview: Bran Ferren, design and technology innovator, looks back at humanity's revolutionary inventions and finds a common ground for them.

title: What Drives Innovation?

title: What Excites You About The Future?

overview: John Seely Brown, Technology and Research expert, explores how our future will be shaped by our relationship with machines and our vision of reality.

title: What Excites You About The Future?

title: Outside Looking In

overview: Photojournalist Rick Smolan recalls how he immersed himself in the magical world of photography -- and transformed from a shy child into an artist.

title: Outside Looking In

overview: Creativity and creative insights power our society and empower us as individuals.

title: Curious Minds: Creativity

original_title: Curious Minds: Creativity


title: DARPA Robotics Challenge

title: Robot Revolution:  Will Machines Surpass Humans?

overview: This program explores what's happening at the forefront of the robot revolution.  Humanoid robots are being created to meet increasing worldwide demand for robots with artificial intelligence that can aid humans in rescue efforts and exploration.  See the latest in the cutting edge of robotics!

title: Decommissioning Fukushima:  Chernobyl Excerpt

overview: What is the current status of the Chernobyl decommissioning since the 1986 disaster?

title: DARPA Robotics Challenge:  DRC 101

overview: “Can robots save lives?” This is the question at the heart of the DARPA Robotics Challenge.  In DRC 101, we embed with the organizers and engineers pushing robots to perform tasks that might someday mean the difference between life and death, and explore the course for this year's event.

title: DARPA Robotics Challenge:  DRC 101

title: The Road To The DRC Finals

overview: Who will take top prize for creating the world’s most advanced robot?  The Road to the DARPA Challenge chronicles the intense competition and collaboration that’s fueling the biggest robotic showdown on the planet.  At stake for the teams -- a $2 million dollar prize.

title: The Road To The DRC Finals

title: DARPA Robotics Challenge Team ViGIR

overview: Profile of Team ViGIR, which placed 10th in 2013.  ViGIR is programming an “Atlas” robot named “Florian” from Boston Dynamics, recently acquired by Google.  Its humanoid design gives it the edge in performing human tasks in human environments.  But will the team have time complete the programming?

title: DARPA Robotics Challenge Team ViGIR

title: DARPA Robotics Challenge Tartan Rescue

overview: Profile of Carnegie Mellon’s Tartan Rescue team, which placed 3rd in 2013.  They’re programming a custom robot, CHIMP, that resembles a monkey, but is able to operate on four legs and roll with treads. It remains a favorite to take home the $2 milllion grand prize.

title: DARPA Robotics Challenge Tartan Rescue

title: Robot Revolution:  Robot Artist

overview: A Japanese artist creates a huge robot, Kuratas, in homage to sci fi robots.

title: Robot Revolution:  Robot Artist

overview: Robotics experts compete to build robots that can save lives and navigate disasters.  See 2015's teams, and robots deployed today.

title: DARPA Robotics Challenge

original_title: DARPA Robotics Challenge