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Cooked: Water

   2016    Culture
Michael Pollan looks to the kitchens of India for a lesson in the value of pot cooking and examines the consequences of eating highly processed food.
Series: Cooked

Daughters

   2024    Culture
Experience the powerful and heartwarming journey of four young girls as they prepare for a once-in-a-lifetime Daddy Daughter Dance event with their incarcerated fathers in Washington, D.C. This documentary offers an intimate glimpse into a unique fatherhood program that brings families together within the walls of a prison. For most of these daughters, this dance will be their only chance to hold or hug their fathers, some of whom are serving sentences as long as 20 years. As the dance approaches, the film delves deep into the emotional bonds between these girls and their dads, capturing moments of joy, heartache, and hope.
‘Daughters’ is a poignant and beautifully crafted story that makes a compelling case for second chances in a world often isolated and fractured.

Destruction

   2017    Culture
Our relationship with destruction is not a simple one. It can release endorphins and relax our minds. It can amp us up and make us even more aggressive. It can even help us regulate our emotional reactions. Can violently breaking things calm us down? Or does it simply anger us more? Find out as Michael Stevens takes a look into our urge to destroy.
Series: Mind Field Season 1

Did Cooking Make Us Human

   2010    Culture
We are the only species on earth that cooks its food - and we are also the cleverest species on the planet. The question is: do we cook because we're clever and imaginative, or are we clever and imaginative because our ancestors discovered cooking? Horizon examines the evidence that our ancestors' changing diet and their mastery of fire prompted anatomical and neurological changes that resulted in taking us out of the trees and into the kitchen.

Do You Know Yourself

   2017    Culture
Who are you? Do you even know who you are? Are you your memories? Are you the choices you make? Are you you? Or are you someone else, but manipulated to be you? If you can lose track of your past and your memories can be altered or implanted, in the end, who are you really? Michael Stevens finds out as he explores what makes you you.
Series: Mind Field Season 1

Doc of the Dead

   2014    Culture
Take a look at the zombie genre in film, literature, and in pop culture as a whole. Several entertainers from various fields such as film and literature are brought in and interviewed on how zombies have changed not only them, but how they entertain others and how the genre has influenced and impacted society at large. Written and directed by Alexandre O. Philippe, is the definitive zombie culture documentary.
Frozen Planet II

Frozen Planet II

2022  Nature
X-Ray Earth

X-Ray Earth

2021  Science
Universe

Universe

2021  Science
Prehistoric Planet

Prehistoric Planet

2022  Science
Human: The World Within

Human: The World Within

2021  Medicine
Earth from Space

Earth from Space

2019  Nature