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Science & Tech

Cyborg: A Documentary

Cyborg: A Documentary

There are no others like Neil Harbisson – at least not yet. As the world’s first officially recognised cyborg, he is on a mission to design himself & to promote that right for others. Born colour-blind, artist Harbisson has an antenna implanted in his skull that enables him to hear colour. Will others join him in upgrading their bodies?

read more
Volcanoes: The Fires Within

Volcanoes: The Fires Within

We dodge boulders at an active volcano in Indonesia, descend to a lava lake in Vanuatu, and visit acid ponds and geysers in Ethiopia. Travel across the globe to see the archeological ghost town of Pompeii, hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the ocean, and witness the devastating effects of the 2018 Kilauea eruption in Hawaii.

read more
Ocean Odyssey

Ocean Odyssey

We follow a pair of Humpback Whales on their great migration from the warm tropics to Antarctica, via an Ocean Current that is home to thousands of interconnected species. As we cross multiple eco-systems, it becomes evident that the ocean itsself is the blue heart of our entire planet.

read more
Ticking Time Bomb

Ticking Time Bomb

We follow the Takata whistleblower and former engineers as they unveil a deadly corporate cover-up leading to the largest international product recall in history. Takata’s airbags have already killed or maimed more than 350 people and are on track to blast at least 2,000 more.

read more
Aquariums: The Dark Hobby

Aquariums: The Dark Hobby

Cyanide and dynamite is used to hunt tropical fish, captured as ´pets´ and then their fins cut, swim bladders pierced, and shipped globally. 90% die within a year of capture, creating a demand for replacement. Aquariums: The Dark Hobby investigates this brutal industry.

read more
Artificial Immortality

Artificial Immortality

Can AI enable us to live forever? Filmmaker Ann Shin sets out on a journey, exploring the latest AI and biotech with scientists and visionaries who foresee a ‘post-biological’ world where humans and AI merge. Will AI be the best, or the last thing we ever do?

read more
Climate Trailblazers: Reimagining Our Future

Climate Trailblazers: Reimagining Our Future

Exciting technologies have emerged, setting the gears in motion for a new green industrial revolution. What are the new technologies that decouple social and economic growth from carbon emissions? New innovations across the world will provide new and greener ways of producing energy, materials and food.

read more
The Face of Anonymous

The Face of Anonymous

Cyber terrorist or freedom fighter? Little did novelist Ian Thornton suspect that the beggar into whose hat he dropped some coin would turn out to be a high ranking member of the Anonymous movement involved in major cyber-attacks. After years on the run from the FBI the man known as Commander X is now looking for political asylum.

read more
Margin of Error: AI, Polling and Elections

Margin of Error: AI, Polling and Elections

Pioneers of a new kind of Polling that combine the breadth of data found on social media with the power of artificial intelligence, claim to accurately predict voter behaviour. Does this give politicians the intel they need to respond to voters needs, or will this data be misused to mislead us – by our own governments, or our adversaries?

read more
Mind Forward

Mind Forward

Connected brains will lead to powerful synthetic telepathy technologies making it possible to not only to read other person’s thoughts, but also manipulate them. But where what are the potential benefits and pitfalls of these new technologies?

read more
Medicating Normal

Medicating Normal

Millions worldwide are physically dependent on commonly prescribed psychiatric drugs. Pharmaceutical companies have hidden their dangerous side effects, addictive nature and long-term harm. This is the story of the disastrous consequences that occur when profit-driven medicine intersects with human beings in distress.

read more
Forging the Future (series)

Forging the Future (series)

Forging the Future explores the most exciting disciplines in popular science today. Each episode features a deep dive into: Artificial Intelligence, Achieving Immortality, Living Off the Earth, Genetic Engineering, Cyborg Technology, and creating a Disease-Free World with the Human Microbiome.

read more
The Dark Web (series)

The Dark Web (series)

Sextortion syndicates target victims globally through social media. Illegal endangered animal trades thrive on Facebook. Digital black markets operate anonymously using software designed for press privacy and freedom to sell drugs. Secret child pornography rings run rampant in closed groups and private chats.

read more
The Internet of Everything

The Internet of Everything

No longer confined to your computer or your phone, the Internet is now in garbage cans, refrigerators, and the infrastructure of our cities. The future will either be a surveillance nightmare or an eco-utopia, the outcome determined by startups in Silicon Valley and Shenzhen.

read more
100 Million Views

100 Million Views

What does it take to reach 100 Million Views? With dark humour and caustic wit, Itamar Rose uncovers the truth about a platform that promised transparency and democracy, but hides an exploitative, censored and unaccountable underbelly.

read more
Magic Medicine

Magic Medicine

Can magic mushrooms cure depression? Over two years we follow the first ever medical trial of psilocybin (the psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms) being used to treat a group of volunteers suffering from clinical depression.

read more
The Power of Play

The Power of Play

Scientists from Europe, the United States and Canada, many of them pioneers in the field, offer convincing evidence that play is not to be taken lightly. In fact, it has the power to make animals and humans smarter, healthier and more likely to survive.

read more
Body Language Decoded

Body Language Decoded

What do we say without realising and how can we read the signals others give us involuntarily? We look deep in to the science of Body Language as well as practical applications in law enforcement, romance, commerce, national security and more.

read more
Rise of the Trolls

Rise of the Trolls

Rise of the Trolls reveals the hard truths surrounding anonymity, dark instincts and freedom on the internet. Once you become the target of a Troll, what starts as a minor annoyance can escalate into a living nightmare. But who are Trolls? Will the fight to stop them destroy our personal freedoms?

read more
Journey to Space

Journey to Space

Narrated by Patrick Stewart and shot in 4K, Journey to Space reveals that Nasa’s next era will be its greatest yet, overcoming challenges from landing astronauts on Mars to capturing asteroids.

read more
The Price of Fairness

The Price of Fairness

Why do we accept huge levels of inequality and social injustice? This is one of the central questions we set out to answer, beginning with a surprising set of social experiments in Norway, which suggest that our willingness to support systems of inequality is far greater than we are often prepared to admit.

read more
The God Cells: A Fetal Stem Cell Journey

The God Cells: A Fetal Stem Cell Journey

Fetal Stem Cell Treatment has demonstrated near miraculous potential but many are forced to seek therapy abroad, we investigate the religious and regulatory roadblocks hindering its market approval.

read more
Burzynski: Cancer Cure Cover Up

Burzynski: Cancer Cure Cover Up

This documentary investigates Burzynskis hidden cancer treatment, its successes and the decades of failed lawsuits the US government and FDA have pursued in order to try to silence him.

read more
Groundswell Rising

Groundswell Rising

Fracking – an untested energy extraction process – has contaminated drinking water and jeopardized health. We meet scientists, doctors & farmers across the political spectrum engaged in a David and Goliath struggle against Big Oil and Gas.

read more
Guardians of the New World

Guardians of the New World

Hackers have emerged as both a threat to security, or its saviour, depending on your point of view. This film gives context to this misunderstood subculture. In bedrooms across the world, a war is being fought that will affect us all, and the battlefield is online.

read more
An Invisible Threat

An Invisible Threat

An Invisible Threat looks at the relationship between microwave technology & health, investigating the conflicts of interest among industry, politicians, scientists & consumers that leave us unprotected to the effects of radiation. Are we prepared for the answers?

read more
DSKNECTD: Is Technology Changing Us?

DSKNECTD: Is Technology Changing Us?

Covering online gaming addiction & sexting to social media narcissism & communication, DSKNECTD surveys the changes to the digital landscape that have profoundly altered the way we interact.

read more
Beautiful Faces

Beautiful Faces

Beautiful Faces offers a compelling look at one of the world’s most remarkable hospitals, the disfigured young patients to whom it offers new lives, and the team of surgeons, physicians, and medical professionals who practice their unique, life-transforming craft.

read more
Beyond Pollution

Beyond Pollution

Beyond Pollution is an exhaustively researched and elegantly executed expose on a tragedy that began with an oil spill but had far-reaching, and unreported repercussions; what really happened, why, and who really benefited.

read more
97% Owned

97% Owned

When money drives almost all activity on the planet, it’s essential that we understand it. Where does money come from? Who creates it? Who decides how it gets used? And what does that mean for the millions of ordinary people who suffer when finance breaks down?

read more
Zeitgeist: The Series

Zeitgeist: The Series

The Zeitgeist documentaries have connected theatrical audiences worldwide with the hidden historical, economic and political concepts that enslave us and possible holistic solutions. Now available for the first time as an 11 part series.

read more
Carbon Nation

Carbon Nation

Carbon Nation is an optimistic, solutions-based, non-preachy, non-partisan, big tent film that shows tackling climate change boosts the economy, increases national & energy security and promotes health & a clean environment.

read more
Are All Men Pedophiles?

Are All Men Pedophiles?

We live in a society that condemns pedophiles, though world cultures throughout history have fetishized youth. The hypocrisy at the heart of society forces the question: What do we mean then when we talk about Pedophilia?

read more
Programming the Nation

Programming the Nation

This study of subliminal messaging in film, music, politics and advertising, takes you on a journey through the subconscious mind examining the history, research and effects of such techniques on society.

read more
The Shark Con

The Shark Con

The Shark Con takes us on a rollercoaster ride into the big business of shark fishing, revealing the controversial truth about the industry & answering the question: Are sharks overfished or is this just an elaborate con?

read more

Science & Tech

Cyborg: A Documentary

Cyborg: A Documentary

There are no others like Neil Harbisson – at least not yet. As the world’s first officially recognised cyborg, he is on a mission to design himself & to promote that right for others. Born colour-blind, artist Harbisson has an antenna implanted in his skull that enables him to hear colour. Will others join him in upgrading their bodies?

read more
Volcanoes: The Fires Within

Volcanoes: The Fires Within

We dodge boulders at an active volcano in Indonesia, descend to a lava lake in Vanuatu, and visit acid ponds and geysers in Ethiopia. Travel across the globe to see the archeological ghost town of Pompeii, hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the ocean, and witness the devastating effects of the 2018 Kilauea eruption in Hawaii.

read more
Ocean Odyssey

Ocean Odyssey

We follow a pair of Humpback Whales on their great migration from the warm tropics to Antarctica, via an Ocean Current that is home to thousands of interconnected species. As we cross multiple eco-systems, it becomes evident that the ocean itsself is the blue heart of our entire planet.

read more
Ticking Time Bomb

Ticking Time Bomb

We follow the Takata whistleblower and former engineers as they unveil a deadly corporate cover-up leading to the largest international product recall in history. Takata’s airbags have already killed or maimed more than 350 people and are on track to blast at least 2,000 more.

read more
Aquariums: The Dark Hobby

Aquariums: The Dark Hobby

Cyanide and dynamite is used to hunt tropical fish, captured as ´pets´ and then their fins cut, swim bladders pierced, and shipped globally. 90% die within a year of capture, creating a demand for replacement. Aquariums: The Dark Hobby investigates this brutal industry.

read more
Artificial Immortality

Artificial Immortality

Can AI enable us to live forever? Filmmaker Ann Shin sets out on a journey, exploring the latest AI and biotech with scientists and visionaries who foresee a ‘post-biological’ world where humans and AI merge. Will AI be the best, or the last thing we ever do?

read more
Climate Trailblazers: Reimagining Our Future

Climate Trailblazers: Reimagining Our Future

Exciting technologies have emerged, setting the gears in motion for a new green industrial revolution. What are the new technologies that decouple social and economic growth from carbon emissions? New innovations across the world will provide new and greener ways of producing energy, materials and food.

read more
The Face of Anonymous

The Face of Anonymous

Cyber terrorist or freedom fighter? Little did novelist Ian Thornton suspect that the beggar into whose hat he dropped some coin would turn out to be a high ranking member of the Anonymous movement involved in major cyber-attacks. After years on the run from the FBI the man known as Commander X is now looking for political asylum.

read more
Margin of Error: AI, Polling and Elections

Margin of Error: AI, Polling and Elections

Pioneers of a new kind of Polling that combine the breadth of data found on social media with the power of artificial intelligence, claim to accurately predict voter behaviour. Does this give politicians the intel they need to respond to voters needs, or will this data be misused to mislead us – by our own governments, or our adversaries?

read more
Mind Forward

Mind Forward

Connected brains will lead to powerful synthetic telepathy technologies making it possible to not only to read other person’s thoughts, but also manipulate them. But where what are the potential benefits and pitfalls of these new technologies?

read more
Medicating Normal

Medicating Normal

Millions worldwide are physically dependent on commonly prescribed psychiatric drugs. Pharmaceutical companies have hidden their dangerous side effects, addictive nature and long-term harm. This is the story of the disastrous consequences that occur when profit-driven medicine intersects with human beings in distress.

read more
Forging the Future (series)

Forging the Future (series)

Forging the Future explores the most exciting disciplines in popular science today. Each episode features a deep dive into: Artificial Intelligence, Achieving Immortality, Living Off the Earth, Genetic Engineering, Cyborg Technology, and creating a Disease-Free World with the Human Microbiome.

read more
The Dark Web (series)

The Dark Web (series)

Sextortion syndicates target victims globally through social media. Illegal endangered animal trades thrive on Facebook. Digital black markets operate anonymously using software designed for press privacy and freedom to sell drugs. Secret child pornography rings run rampant in closed groups and private chats.

read more
The Internet of Everything

The Internet of Everything

No longer confined to your computer or your phone, the Internet is now in garbage cans, refrigerators, and the infrastructure of our cities. The future will either be a surveillance nightmare or an eco-utopia, the outcome determined by startups in Silicon Valley and Shenzhen.

read more
100 Million Views

100 Million Views

What does it take to reach 100 Million Views? With dark humour and caustic wit, Itamar Rose uncovers the truth about a platform that promised transparency and democracy, but hides an exploitative, censored and unaccountable underbelly.

read more
Magic Medicine

Magic Medicine

Can magic mushrooms cure depression? Over two years we follow the first ever medical trial of psilocybin (the psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms) being used to treat a group of volunteers suffering from clinical depression.

read more
The Power of Play

The Power of Play

Scientists from Europe, the United States and Canada, many of them pioneers in the field, offer convincing evidence that play is not to be taken lightly. In fact, it has the power to make animals and humans smarter, healthier and more likely to survive.

read more
Body Language Decoded

Body Language Decoded

What do we say without realising and how can we read the signals others give us involuntarily? We look deep in to the science of Body Language as well as practical applications in law enforcement, romance, commerce, national security and more.

read more
Rise of the Trolls

Rise of the Trolls

Rise of the Trolls reveals the hard truths surrounding anonymity, dark instincts and freedom on the internet. Once you become the target of a Troll, what starts as a minor annoyance can escalate into a living nightmare. But who are Trolls? Will the fight to stop them destroy our personal freedoms?

read more
Journey to Space

Journey to Space

Narrated by Patrick Stewart and shot in 4K, Journey to Space reveals that Nasa’s next era will be its greatest yet, overcoming challenges from landing astronauts on Mars to capturing asteroids.

read more
The Price of Fairness

The Price of Fairness

Why do we accept huge levels of inequality and social injustice? This is one of the central questions we set out to answer, beginning with a surprising set of social experiments in Norway, which suggest that our willingness to support systems of inequality is far greater than we are often prepared to admit.

read more
The God Cells: A Fetal Stem Cell Journey

The God Cells: A Fetal Stem Cell Journey

Fetal Stem Cell Treatment has demonstrated near miraculous potential but many are forced to seek therapy abroad, we investigate the religious and regulatory roadblocks hindering its market approval.

read more
Burzynski: Cancer Cure Cover Up

Burzynski: Cancer Cure Cover Up

This documentary investigates Burzynskis hidden cancer treatment, its successes and the decades of failed lawsuits the US government and FDA have pursued in order to try to silence him.

read more
Groundswell Rising

Groundswell Rising

Fracking – an untested energy extraction process – has contaminated drinking water and jeopardized health. We meet scientists, doctors & farmers across the political spectrum engaged in a David and Goliath struggle against Big Oil and Gas.

read more
Guardians of the New World

Guardians of the New World

Hackers have emerged as both a threat to security, or its saviour, depending on your point of view. This film gives context to this misunderstood subculture. In bedrooms across the world, a war is being fought that will affect us all, and the battlefield is online.

read more
An Invisible Threat

An Invisible Threat

An Invisible Threat looks at the relationship between microwave technology & health, investigating the conflicts of interest among industry, politicians, scientists & consumers that leave us unprotected to the effects of radiation. Are we prepared for the answers?

read more
DSKNECTD: Is Technology Changing Us?

DSKNECTD: Is Technology Changing Us?

Covering online gaming addiction & sexting to social media narcissism & communication, DSKNECTD surveys the changes to the digital landscape that have profoundly altered the way we interact.

read more
Beautiful Faces

Beautiful Faces

Beautiful Faces offers a compelling look at one of the world’s most remarkable hospitals, the disfigured young patients to whom it offers new lives, and the team of surgeons, physicians, and medical professionals who practice their unique, life-transforming craft.

read more
Beyond Pollution

Beyond Pollution

Beyond Pollution is an exhaustively researched and elegantly executed expose on a tragedy that began with an oil spill but had far-reaching, and unreported repercussions; what really happened, why, and who really benefited.

read more
97% Owned

97% Owned

When money drives almost all activity on the planet, it’s essential that we understand it. Where does money come from? Who creates it? Who decides how it gets used? And what does that mean for the millions of ordinary people who suffer when finance breaks down?

read more
Zeitgeist: The Series

Zeitgeist: The Series

The Zeitgeist documentaries have connected theatrical audiences worldwide with the hidden historical, economic and political concepts that enslave us and possible holistic solutions. Now available for the first time as an 11 part series.

read more
Carbon Nation

Carbon Nation

Carbon Nation is an optimistic, solutions-based, non-preachy, non-partisan, big tent film that shows tackling climate change boosts the economy, increases national & energy security and promotes health & a clean environment.

read more
Are All Men Pedophiles?

Are All Men Pedophiles?

We live in a society that condemns pedophiles, though world cultures throughout history have fetishized youth. The hypocrisy at the heart of society forces the question: What do we mean then when we talk about Pedophilia?

read more
Programming the Nation

Programming the Nation

This study of subliminal messaging in film, music, politics and advertising, takes you on a journey through the subconscious mind examining the history, research and effects of such techniques on society.

read more
The Shark Con

The Shark Con

The Shark Con takes us on a rollercoaster ride into the big business of shark fishing, revealing the controversial truth about the industry & answering the question: Are sharks overfished or is this just an elaborate con?

read more