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Bodysong
The process of human life, from birth through to death, without dialogue, but set to a soft music score.
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Imagine: The Man Who Forgot How to Read and Other Stories
Presenter Alan Yentob meets clinical neurologist and author Dr Oliver Sacks to investigate the myriad ways we experience the visual world and the strange things that can happen when our mind fails to understand what our eyes see. In the course of this investigation, Yentob tells the life story of Dr Oliver Sacks, the man who would become one of the world’s most famous scientists.
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Stress, Portrait of a Killer
Stress: Portrait of a Killer follows the quest of Stanford neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky to understand the possibly deadly effects of stress.
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Homo Futurus: The Inside Story
Homo Futurus presents a theory regarding the mechanism driving the evolution of humans from primates to modern man that is distinctly non-Darwinian. It also speculates on humanity’s long term future evolutionary path.
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Undercity: An Underground Expedition Through New York City
Crawl through the many very old subway-tunnels underneath New York City with urban historian Steve Duncan and director Andrew Wonder.
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Neanderthal
Europe, eighty thousand years ago, for countless generations the kingdom of a remarkable and mysterious creature, the Neanderthal. A species of human in many ways so similar to us, and yet also so very different.
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In The Womb
Before it takes its first breath, a human baby has been through an incredible transformation from a single cell to a complex, self-sustaining organism. Watch this amazing process in real time inside the womb.
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Connections 1
James Burke’s most well-known series “Connections” which explores the surprising and unexpected ways that our modern technological world came into existence. First Series.
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How To Live To 101
The quest to live longer has been one of humanities oldest dreams, but while scientists have been searching, a few isolated communities have stumbled across the answer.
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The Invisible World
Witness the 1979 classic video captivating sights that will forever alter your knowledge and perception of the world around us.
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Why We Fight
Why We Fight is a documentary film about the United States military-industrial complex and its fifty-year involvement with the wars led by the United States to date.
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