Science Movies

Computer animation and footage from NASA space missions explain how our solar system evolved and the place Earth has within the system.

Two scientists search for possible futures in which humanity could survive.

Tom Holland explores how our ancestors sought to explain the remains of dinosaurs and other giant prehistoric creatures, and how bones and fossils...

What happens when two hands touch? How close are they like? And how can proximity be measured, and even more so, in times of a pandemic and...

The discovery of neuroplasticity, the fact that thoughts can change the structure and function of our brains, even into old age, is one of the most...

Cormac McCarthy has spent the last 25 years writing his novels at the mountain top retreat of the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) in New Mexico. An...

Explains that heat is really a form of motion, a form of kinetic energy and that it can be converted to other forms of energy and transferred through...

Short educational film of our solar system

A farmer tries to save his wife from a paralyzing disease. He enlists the help of his neighbor, a scientist studying astronomy who refuses to help....

Is nuclear energy the solution to the climate crisis? Whether it is the only carbon-neutral technology capable of tackling the crisis or a fatally...

A desktop documentary that focuses on the Golden Record that NASA sent into space in the late 1970s. The piece reflects on issues such as the power...

The recent discovery by the Kepler satellite of thousands of Earth-like planets where life could be possible, has given a big boost to the Search for...

At only twelve inches long, the menhaden are a keystone species in the East Coast's marine ecosystem, yet their numbers are threatened by...

An educational film about frogs produced by Encyclopædia Britannica Films, an educational film production company in the 20th century owned by...

Forest Mind is a video work that emerges from the artist’s longstanding interest in the human interaction with the natural world. Forest Mind...

Like almost all children, Celeste is fascinated by dinosaurs. She is preparing a talk for her class about how they went extinct when Moon, a very...