Documentaries : Sci-fi

Factual Factory- Stock Footage, (black & white) "Our Earth." Currants affect the climates of nearby lands. The Gulf Stream Currant tends to have warmer climates and the Labrador Currant is colder. Along many rivers man has built damns that help generate electricity. Other damns are blocked to form a...

Just 3 percent of the planet’s water is fresh and it is our most precious resource. Rivers and lakes have shaped the earth, carving out the world’s most impressive gorges, valleys and waterfalls. Unique behavior takes place in the presence of this life force, such as dueling otters and c...

The recent swine flu and the not so recent bird flu are related to each other in some way. They are both variants of the Influenzavirus A (correct me if I'm wrong). Scientists started to realize early on that these types of viruses not only infect their hosts and subsequently kill them, but were als...

It seems perverse that one of the main roads out of one of the highest cities on Earth should actually climb as it leaves town. But climb it does - just short of a lung-sapping five kilometers (three miles) above sea level, where even the internal combustion engine is forced to toil and splutter....

In the mid 1800s, when Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution, one species of animal remained a mystery; where did birds fit on his evolutionary tree? Several years later his friend and colleague, Thomas Henry Huxley, came up with an answer. Huxley had recently examined a new fossil from s...

This groundbreaking series unravels the extrasensory feats and near-paranormal powers of animals. It journeys to the outer limits of scientific knowledge to find a parallel universe where life exists in other realities and has powers that almost defy belief. Here sharks perceive human electric auras...

The history of the big bang theory. Professor Jim Al Khalili delves into over 50 years of the BBC science archive to tell the story behind the emergence of one of the greatest theories of modern science, the Big Bang. Using curious horn-shaped antennas, U-2 spy planes, satellites and particle acc...

1960s US Air Force documentary about Amercia’s effort to catch up to the Russians in Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile technology....

With Multidrug-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) threatening to infect huge numbers of patients who make even short trips to the hospital, and the gradual increase in the number of bacteria that are resistant to all known antibiotics, scientists are turning to new ways to conquer the killer bug...

The best unbiased NDE documentary I've seen to date. Can the brain live on after clinical death or is it something else? What do we know about Consciousness? New science research reveals some startling findings....