Host Molly Hermann reveals the lack of science behind some of the most well-known crime scene investigation tools, and tells the stories of the wrongfully convicted who went to prison for years.
A remote community in Africa, led by a woman chief, attempts to break the stranglehold of absolute poverty by waging a war on wildlife poaching. For decades illegal wildlife poaching by both subsistence and bush meat gangs has led to the government declaring this community’s homeland “depleted” of wildlife. The chief finds help in the form of a safari operator and they work together to bring stability to the community. But all was not well. Disease, food stability, and rampant alcoholism hamper basic needs like health care and education. Even young girls, just after reaching puberty, are sold by their parents as child brides in order to feed their family for one year. Dark forces including South African land speculators, criminal poaching gangs, and her own people conspire against the chief. Even elements from the modern world work against the chief’s wishes. Will the chief and her community see success?
La vida y la carrera del famoso ilusionista James Randi lo volvieron un escéptico científico de lo paranormal.
The High Frontier cuenta la historia no contada de Gerard K. O'Neill, quien en 1977 escribió el libro The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space, que provocó un movimiento de base para construir hábitats similares a los de la Tierra en el espacio para resolver las mayores crisis de la Tierra. .
Los tsunamis son uno de los fenómenos naturales más mortíferos del planeta. ¿Qué podemos hacer para protegernos contra este gran desastre natural?
Take a 4.5 billion-year trip back to the chaotic beginning of our solar system where survival of the fittest played out on an interplanetary scale.
The true story of the smallest Green Beret soldier who became a war hero-only to be killed homeless and alone, whose life and death are shrouded in mystery.
The Singularity, or the arrival of superhuman intelligence, has been described as both the "rapture of the nerds" and inevitable. Futurist and philosopher Jason Silva explores the ways in which this radical transformation may occur through biotechnology, nanotechnology and artificial intelligence.
Documental de la BBC sobre el Crack de 1929 y la Gran Depresión. Las principales causas y las consecuencias de la mayor depresión económica de la humanidad.
Witness the French Revolution as never before — the fall of the world’s most powerful monarchy and the revolt that tore apart a nation.
What makes a house a home? From cave dwellings to skyscrapers, explore how our dwellings have transformed through history—and transformed us in turn.
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi would have been 100 years in October 2019. The Shah's story begins with good ideas and ideals and ends in bloody chaos. On the one hand, he helped carry Iran into modernity. His wealth was legendary, and his marriages made tabloid headlines for years. However, his name also stands for a time of human rights violations, vicious oppression and intolerance.
La Tierra es un planeta nacido del fuego. Durante miles de millones de años, los volcanes han contribuido a forjar el mundo que conocemos.
Ancient Earth is an original CuriosityStream documentary series running for 2 seasons. Each season comprises of 3-3 episodes, respectively that feature stunning animations in Ultra HD 4K quality. The 1st season sheds light on the kind of life that existed in the Permian, Triassic and Cretaceous periods. The 2nd season is about some crucial moments in the evolution of life: the disappearance of the giant insects, the rise of the feathered dinosaurs, and the dawn of the mammals.
Engineer and adventurer Rob Bell climbs aboard some of the world’s fastest theme park rides and discovers how these rides affect our bodies.
Una visión artística de Van Gogh como si esta película fuera narrada por él mismo.
Rock icon Sting opens his brain to researchers to study how our gray matter uses music to shape the human experience and define our life stages.
A documentary filmed at Moton Field in Tuskegee Alabama, home to the airmen of the 99th Fighter Squadron. They were the first African American fighter pilots trained to fly in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. Nearly 1,000 pilots trained in Tuskegee and about half of those saw combat, destroying or damaging about 400 enemy aircraft, but found themselves fighting two wars-- the one against fascism abroad, and the one against racism at home.
One man's battle to end wolf hunting in the States. Eco-activist Rod Coronado has made it his life’s mission to advocate for the planet and the rights of animals. In 2014, he formed Wolf Patrol, an activist group which fights to preserve the grey wolves which roam Wisconsin’s forests. After 30 years of radical environmental action that earned Coronado the label, "eco-terrorist", Operation Wolf Patrol follows Rod's journey to redefine his activism. As ‘hunter harassment’ laws strengthen the rights of hunters in the States, Coronado is forced to make a momentous choice: retain his own freedom, or risk prison to continue his quest to protect America’s wildlife.
Un ingeniero que construye una cúpula sobre el reactor nuclear que gotea… un médico que realiza 36 abortos en una noche…. un bombero, todavía herido por la radiación ... una niña que fue evacuada de su casa ... un soldado que aprendió a luchar contra un enemigo invisible y un oficial encargado de retirar los desechos nucleares del techo ... En el Israel de hoy, hay 1608 liquidadores de Chernobyl, personas que participaron en la liquidación de las consecuencias del desastre de Chernobyl. Cada año son cada vez menos. La película presenta su historia, como un mosaico de evidencias y material de archivo exclusivo nunca antes visto, entretejidos en el panorama más amplio del desastre, que se cuenta desde diferentes perspectivas. Treinta años después, los Liquidadores están regresando al mundo perdido de su pasado, tratando de enfrentar sus recuerdos, miedos y arrepentimientos.
From the highest-grossing actor of all time, Samuel L. Jackson, alongside his Tony Award-nominated wife LaTanya Richardson Jackson to Kristen Bell, and sports icons Shaquille O'Neal and Joe Namath to the wildly popular influencer MrBeast - these are the intriguing people who capture our attention, fill our social feeds, and shape pop culture. Each of the six hour-long episodes takes an intimate tone, featuring the deeply profound conversations that happen out of the spotlight when people share, in their own words, what truly inspires them.
A series two million years in the making, learn how we omnivorous humans went from hunting and gathering on the Serengeti to dinner via InstaCart.
The KGB has influenced world events on numerous occasions before. Assassinations, coup d’états, theft of nuclear secrets and sexpionage are just standard trademarks for an organisation that still sends shivers down the spines of politicians and military figures the world over. It may have changed its name on various occasions, from Cheka to SPD to OGPU to NKVD to MGB to KGB to an array of different names after the collapse of the Soviet Union to FSB and SVR today, but it will forever be known, internally and externally, as the KGB.
The whole story of the Costa Concordia ship disaster, the worst cruise accident since the Titanic.