What if science could reverse the aging process? Follow the researchers as they decipher these mechanisms, with the promise of finding the elixir...

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

Earth teems with a staggering variety of animals, including 9,000 kinds of birds, 28,000 types of fish, and more than 350,000 species of beetles...

Documentary about living with an addict and grappling with the genetic propensity of becoming one.

What's the point of music? You might be tempted to answer that it's an enjoyable pastime or an art form, but nothing really essential. For the...

If we compare ourselves with our genetically closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, we have few physical advantages. We are far weaker, cannot...

The film tells a very personal story from two perspectives: our protagonist is both doctor and patient. As a patient, he has struggled with...

The documentary tells two very different human fates in the 1920s Soviet Union. Nikolai Vavilov was a botanical genius, Trofim Lyssenko was an...

Can science help us understand these crimes?

After a woman's at-home DNA test reveals multiple half-siblings, she discovers a shocking scheme involving donor sperm and a popular fertility doctor.

How did your body become the complicated, quirky, amazing machine it is today? Anatomist Neil Shubin uncovers the answers in this 3-part science...

The made-for-cable documentary film The Real Eve is predicated on the theory that the human race can be traced to a common ancestor. The...

A well-preserved mammoth carcass is found in the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, opening up the possibility of a world-changing...

Directed by Pernille Rose Grønkjær.

Through our subject Adam, we reveal the incredible changes and forces that take all humankind from Cradle to Grave.

This educational film from 1970 traces the inheritance of traits such as sex, eye color, height, and weight, showing the role of chromosomes and...