Movies: Science

With a wealth of fantastic archive footage and a series of revealing interviews with those who had first-hand experience, filmmaker Vicki Lesley tells the turbulent story of the West’s love-hate relationship with a nuclear power over the past seventy...

Rat Brain is a documentary that highlights Dr. John D. Douglass and his team's research at Seattle Pacific University on chronic stress' neurological impact, striving to uncover its link to suicidal behavior. Their work navigates ethical dilemmas whi...

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A film which explores a radical new idea - is there an imbalance between our brain hemispheres that is affecting how we live in our modern society?...

Portrait of Hermann Heinzel....

As Percival Lowell, an optimistic astronomer, fervently believes he has discovered extraterrestrial structures across various planets, he races against skepticism and scientific scrutiny to try and validate his groundbreaking discovery....

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 important breakthroughs in our understanding of the brain in recent times. In The Brain That Changes I...

A woman hunts for fossils and makes a big discovery. But she doesn't get credit again....

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It is the birth of neutrino astronomy. For the first time, astrophysicists can detect extra-terrestrial neutrinos in ice on the South Pole. The fundamental questions of science remain unanswered., how did the universe come to be? What keeps our world...

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 distancing? We think we touch things, that we can take other people by the hand, but physics tells us quite an...

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With input from an eclectic mix of scientists, engineers, sportspeople (and about thirty thousand snails) the film focuses on the many incarnations of speed and how it affects us all on land, sea, sky, space and even in our thoughts....

This film covers the basics of atomic theory while addressing the moral issues inherent in yielding such godlike power....

In his laboratory, an oceanographer conducts temperature and salinity tests to determine the necessary conditions for the micro-algae Protoceratium reticulatum to survive in the Saint Lawrence Estuary. The filmmaker, moving between the seen and the u...

On display are the movement structures of Heliozoa, the expulsion of food remains, plasmogamy, separation and temporary bridging, "phobia"....

Shows the properties of different solvents, including their electrical conductivity or lack of it. Shows how they affect the boiling point of water. Demonstrates ion migration during electrolysis....

This instructional film shows the three parts of a lever and demonstrates how various levers help to move things more easily, or move them farther and faster....