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The Thinking Game
United States, 83 min, 2024
Topics: General Artificial Intelligence, technology
The Thinking Gametakes you on a fascinating journey to the heart of DeepMind, one of the world’s leading AI labs, as it attempts to unravel the mysteries of artificial general intelligence (AGI). Inside DeepMind’s London headquarters, founder Demis Hassabis and his team are tirelessly pursuing the creation of an AI that can match or surpass human capabilities across a wide range of tasks.
Filmed over five years, the documentary captures historic advances such as AlphaFold, the weight of countermeasures, and the constant pursuit of scientific innovation, inviting viewers to witness one of the most important scientific adventures of our time and explore how AGI could transform our world.
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Reel As Dirt, Cityspeak Films
Noah
Spain, 72 min, 2024
Topics: medicine, rare diseases
Noah, a 26-year-old activist, has turned her battle with seven rare and incurable diseases into a powerful message of resilience and hope.
Since her first ultrasound when she was just one year old, her life has been marked by tests, hospital admissions, and risky operations, facing chronic pain and fragile health. However, this is not just a story of suffering; it is the inspiring tale of a young woman who has found the strength to smile and seek happiness in the midst of adversity. Through her journey, Noah demonstrates that giving up is not an option, rising again and again with the firm conviction that "nothing is impossible." A moving exploration of the struggle for life and the power of unconditional love.
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Limmat Films, BsglobalTV, 3cat
Blame
Switzerland, 121 min, 2025
Topics: COVID, vaccines, viruses, species-to-species transmission, misinformation, and hoaxes
Blame, directed by Christian Frei, is a hard-hitting documentary that examines the COVID-19 pandemic through the eyes of three scientists who had warned in advance of a health crisis of this magnitude. As the virus spreads across the globe, the film reveals that the biggest battle is being fought not only in laboratories, but also in the realms of public opinion, the media, and politics.
The documentary closely follows these researchers as they attempt to advance knowledge in an environment dominated by fear, urgency, and media pressure. They face an avalanche of misinformation, conspiracy theories, and simplistic narratives that seek immediate culprits, distorting the facts and undermining confidence in science. Frei humanizes the protagonists, showing their doubts, frustrations, and ethical commitment, and contrasts the slow and rigorous pace of research with the speed and toxicity of speech and media speech .
With an approach combines research and narrative tension, Blame becomes a documentary thriller that examines how truth can be manipulated in times of global crisis. The film offers a profound reflection on collective responsibility, the fragility of truth, and the role of science in a world marked by polarization and fake news.
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Christian Frei Filmproductions
Spacewoman
United States, 100 min, 2024
Topics: space exploration, women in science, technology, and innovation
Spacewoman is a feature-length documentary that tells the extraordinary story of pioneering astronaut Eileen Collins, the first woman to pilot and command a NASA space shuttle. From her humble childhood in Elmira, New York, the film traces her journey of perseverance and dedication, which led her to break through in two of the most demanding and traditionally male-dominated institutions: the U.S. Air Force and NASA.
Through intimate interviews and extraordinary file footage, the documentary chronicles Collins’s four space missions, including historic milestones such as the docking with a Russian space station; and reveals the rigor, discipline responsibility involved in leading high-risk missions. Beyond her professional achievements,*Spacewoman* offersa deeply human look at the impact of this degree program her staff family life. The film gives a voice to those closest to her, especially her daughter Bridget, showing how the family lived with fear, uncertainty, and tragedies such as the Columbia disaster.
Directed by Hannah Berryman and featuring a moving score by Marcelo Zarvos,*Spacewoman* offersa reflection on sacrifice, courage, and acceptable risk in human space exploration, while highlighting the vital role of women in the future of space.
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Haviland Digital, Tigerlily Productions
Lions of the Skeleton Coast
Austria, 52 min, 2024
Topics: nature, ethology, extreme ecosystems, and survival
Lions of the Skeleton Coast tells the extraordinary story of three orphaned lion cubs struggling to survive in one of the most hostile environments on the planet: Namibia’s Skeleton Coast. Left to fend for themselves in an arid desert seemingly inhospitable to life, the cubs face extreme food scarcity and an uncertain future that defies all odds for their species.
Guided by instinct and necessity, young lions embark on an unexpected journey to the Atlantic Ocean, where they discover an unprecedented survival strategy: living along the coast. This surprising adaptation not only allows them to survive, but redefines the known behavior of lions, demonstrating an extraordinary capacity for resilience and learning. Over eight years, renowned researcher conservationist Dr. Philip Stander documents their evolution, closely following their growth, challenges, and triumphs, and establishing a deep and respectful relationship with the animals.
With striking imagery and a deeply moving narrative, the documentary explores themes such as extreme survival and adaptation to change.*Lions of the Skeleton Coast*is an inspiring story of perseverance and evolution, sample these lions not only survived but rewrote the history of their species in the face of a relentless and changing world.
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ORF, Into Nature Productions, WDR, Arte G.E.I.E., THIRTEEN Productions LLC.
Blue Carbon: Nature’s Hidden Power
United Kingdom, 85 min, 2023
Topics: ecology, climate change, conservation, marine biology, oceans
Told through the eyes of Grammy-nominated music producer, DJ, and environmental biologist Jayda Guy, *Blue Carbon: Nature’s Hidden Power* is an environmental documentary that combines music and science to uncover what could be one of our greatest weapons in the fight against climate change.
Filmed in the United States, Senegal, Vietnam, France, Colombia, and Brazil, the documentary explores the latest scientific advances regarding the relatively new potential of coastal ecosystems to help remove carbon from our atmosphere.
This "blue carbon," as scientists now call it, can be found in wetlands, seagrass beds, and mangroves, but once again we are in a degree program to protect and restore these vital ecosystems and harness their immeasurable power in the fight against global warming.
Accentuated by amazing encounters with the natural world (such as the Florida manatee, humpback whales and the American alligator) and uncovering the unexpected local heroes at the heart of conservation, the documentary provides a much-needed ray of hope in troubled times.
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Make Waves, HHMI Tangled Bank Studios
Of Medicine and Miracles
United States, 95 min, 2022
Topics: medicine, research
At the age of six, Emily Whitehead was diagnosed with leukemia. Her life and her parents’ were suddenly plunged into uncertainty. Through interviews and home videos of moving authenticity, Medicine and Miracles chronicles her family’s experience as they went from hospital to hospital, trying to stay hopeful amid despair, and their fateful correspondence with a doctor whose research be the core topic her survival. But time is of the essence.
Of Medicine and Miraclesan astonishing feat of nonfiction filmmaking, applies a deeply staff perspective to a highly publicized case, allowing Emily's parents to speak candidly about the American healthcare system, experimental cancer treatments, and their immense love for their daughter. Oscar winner Ross Kauffman's documentary is a poignant and moving record of medical history that honors its protagonists and their trauma, while inspiring future generations to attempt the impossible.
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Sean N. Parker Foundation, Randomgood Foundation, network Films
Hunt for the Oldest DNA
Canada, 82 min, 2024
Topics:Genetics, DNA analysis, ecology
In Search of the Oldest DNA tells the story of a maverick gene hunter whose stubborn pursuit of an improbable scientific vision would torment and trouble him for a long time, before ending in an astonishing triumph: a lost world recovered from a spoonful of soil.
Two decades ago, Eske Willerslev had a radical idea: Could DNA—the fragile chemical code of life—survive intact in frozen sediments for millennia? His fellow scientists called him crazy. But the Danish biologist set out to prove them all wrong, and his perseverance paid off with a historic breakthrough, one with enormous implications for how we understand the deep past.
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Handful of Films, HHMI Tangled Bank Studios, NOVA/BGH, DR.
Flyways: The Untold Journey of Migratory Shore Birds
Australia, 85 min, 2023
Topics: nature, ecology, climate change, conservation, biology
Waders are the world's greatest endurance athletes. They migrate non-stop for up to 9 days without food or water: the longest known migration of any species. They fly thousands of miles along ancient migratory routes, traveling from their feeding grounds in the southern hemisphere to the High Arctic, then back again. But in just 30 years, populations have plummeted. Flyways once teeming with life are falling silent. It's a degree program against time to save them.
In the Americas, Australia, Europe, and Asia, scientists are tackling the challenge of conserving shorebirds. For animals that cross borders, it is no easy task to determine why their populations are declining. Using cutting-edge science, they hope to decipher their mysterious flight paths and save them. Flyways is a captivating film about how shorebirds, through their incredible migrations, bring out the best in humanity and science in an effort to save them from extinction.
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Screen Australia, Screen Queensland, ZED, Antidote Films, HHMI Tangled Bank Studios, ABC, PTS, Storyland.
Nuclear Now
United States, 105 min, 2022
Topics: nuclear energy
As fossil fuels continue to bake the planet, the world is finally being forced to confront the influence of big oil and the strategies that have enriched a small group of corporations and individuals for generations.
Beneath our feet, uranium atoms in the Earth's crust contain incredibly concentrated energy. Science unlocked this energy in the mid-20th century, first to make bombs and then to power submarines, and the United States led the effort to generate electricity from this new energy source. However, as societies began the transition to nuclear power and away from fossil fuels, a long-term campaign to scare the public began, funded in part by the coal and oil industries. This campaign would sow fear about harmless low-level radiation and create confusion between nuclear weapons and nuclear power.
With unprecedented access to the nuclear industry in France, Russia and the United States, director Oliver Stone explores the possibility of the global community overcoming challenges such as climate change and achieving a better future through the power of nuclear energy.
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Abramorama and Everest Communications Limited.
Maa-yiem, the extraordinary story of Jordi Sabater Pi
Spain, 59 min, 2022
Topics: ethology, ecology, historical biography
Primatologist Jordi Sabater Pi arrived in Equatorial Guinea at the age of 17, fleeing the aftermath of the war. Captivated by Africa, notebook in hand, he ventured into the realm of the Pygmies, living alongside the chimpanzees. His field notes revealed to the world, for the first time, behaviors that would forever change what was previously known about these great apes. In 1966, he discovered Snowflake (Floquet de Neu), an albino gorilla who would go on to become a true icon.
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Turkana Films.
Custom-made
Germany, 52 min, 2021
Topics: digital footprint, social media, the internet
In an experiment that combines research art, the group creates a double of a stranger based solely on their online data . Five years of this person’s life are reconstructed exclusively using data and filmed on a large theater stage. Based on this spectacular experiment, which culminates in a meeting participant and their double, the documentary “Made to Measure” explores what Google, Facebook hundreds of companies that trade in data with the data of billions of people.
A former Google engineer (Guillaume Chaslot), a Google marketing specialist (Patrick Berlinquette), an expert in psychological segmentation (Sandra Matz) and renowned privacy activists (Frederike Kaltheuner, Eliot Bendinelli, Max Schrems), reflect and explain why the advertising companies' use of our data are anything but harmless. But couldn't the behavioral data also be used for the benefit of mankind? What forms of manipulation do we consider socially acceptable or even desirable?
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Laocoön and WDR.
Oceanic Odyssey
Australia, 40 min, 2021
Topics: oceans, conservation, marine biology
"Ocean Odyssey" follows a pair of humpback whales (a mother and calf) on their great migration from the warm tropics to the icy waters of Antarctica, through an ocean current that harbors thousands of interconnected species.
As we cross multiple ecosystems, it becomes clear that the ocean is the blue heart of our entire planet, necessary for life as we know it, both at sea and on land. Our journey takes us from the smallest microscopic organisms to the largest animals ever to inhabit the planet, showing that their fragile interdependence is crucial to maintaining the health not only of the oceans, but also of our climate systems and our atmosphere.
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Wild Pacific average Gin Clear Film.
Make People Better
United States, 83 min, 2021
Topics:Genetics, research , Genetics editing
In 2018, Chinese scientist Dr. He Jiankui crossed a line with no possible reverse in human evolution by altering the structure Genetics of embryos to produce the world's first genome-edited babies. This controversial experiment, supported by the Chinese government and leading U.S. scientists, sparked an international outcry, which was followed by swift action by Chinese authorities to make not only Dr. He, but also the twins whose genes he had edited, disappear.
The documentary thriller Make People Better reveals the untold story behind this historic scientific event from the perspectives of those who were there. It includes testimony from a whistleblower, never-before-seen interviews with He Jiankui, and a depiction of a world waking up to a future where rival governments and corporations compete to make design babies the new normal.
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Rhumb line average.
Carbon - The Unauthorized Biography
Australia, 89 min, 2022
Topics: nature, Chemistry, ecology
With carbon in the news on a daily basis, you might think you know all about it. But you'd be wrong. This spectacular and unorthodox documentary reveals the history of the element that builds all the life we know.
Narrated in the first person by the element itself, the documentary chronicles its birth in the violent core of an exploding star and its turbulent sagas through the fabric of our evolving planet. With breathless elation, it reveals how it unlocked the evolution of all life forms, including us. But now, as we humans release vast stores of buried carbon to fuel our world, we are discovering its dark side: carbon both facilitates life and also destroys it. What happens next - reconciliation or ruin - is up to us.
With dazzling animations and a captivating soundtrack, renowned scientists such as Neil deGrasse Tyson, Suzanne Simard, and Katharine Hayhoe present the complexity of carbon with great clarity and infectious enthusiasm. The epic tale of Carbon – The Unauthorized Biography reminds us of the profound fragility of the natural world and our humble part in the most extraordinary story in the universe.
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Genepool Productions and Handful of Films.
Jim Allison: Breakthrough
United States, 90 min, 2019
Topics: medicine, research
When he was just 11 years old, James Allison lost his mother to lymphatic cancer, an event that marked the beginning of a staff . But in the years that followed, James also lost two uncles and a brother, all to various subject cancer. Now, at 71, Allison is a renowned American scientist and immunologist who has never ceased his ongoing battle against the disease. Jim is also a cheerful, noble, eccentric, and lively soul, despite having faced death so many times.
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Uncommon Productions
The Last Artifact
United States, 57 min, 2019
Topics: physics, metrology, International System of Units
The Last Artifact documents the behind-the-scenes work done to modernize the measurement system on which all of modern life depends. Since the French Revolution, the way we weigh the world has been based on a small metal cylinder the diameter of a golf ball, located on the outskirts of Paris inside a high-tech vault.
Encased inside three vacuum-sealed bells, it may not look like much, but it is one of the most important objects on the planet. It has a bearing on every aspect of our lives: from the moment we are born, to the food we eat, the cars we drive and the medicines we take. This object has helped send men to the moon and satellites into space. It is an object like no other, the last of its subject. It is a literal constant in an ever-changing world, and the weight by which all others are measured. In 2018, all this changed. This extraordinary object became history, the kilogram was redefined.
"The Last Artifact " tells the story of how this artifact was created, how its redefinition came about, and what the future holds.
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Montana PBS and Montana State University.
The Serengeti Rules
United States, 84 min, 2018
Passion Planet and HHMI Tangled Bank Studios present one of the most important—yet untold—scientific stories of our time; a story with profound implications for the fate of life on our planet.
Beginning in the 1960s, a small group of young scientists, group , set out into nature, driven by an insatiable curiosity to learn how it works. They immersed themselves in some of the most remote and spectacular places on Earth, from the majestic Serengeti to the Amazon rainforest to the Arctic Ocean. Now, in the twilight of their eminent careers, these five unsung heroes of modern ecology share their stories: Bob Paine, Jim Estes, Mary Power, Tony Sinclair and John Terborgh. Across the globe, they discovered that among the millions of species on our planet, some are far more important than others. They called these species "cornerstones" because they hold the natural world together.
Based on the book by Sean B. Carroll, The Serengeti Rules will forever change the way we view nature.
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HHMI Tangled Bank Studios, Passion Planet
My teacher, the octopus
South Africa, 85 min, 2020
Topics: oceans, ethology, marine biology, nature
After years of swimming daily in the icy waters off the southern tip of Africa, Craig Foster encounters an unexpected teacher: a young octopus sample unusual curiosity.
By visiting its lair and tracking its movements for months, he eventually wins the animal’s trust, and they develop a bond never before seen between humans and wild animals. As the little octopus shares the secrets of its world, Craig undergoes an incredible mental and physical transformation. His body becomes immune to the cold of the deep, and each dive without financial aid lasts for minutes. The octopus sample him sample that have never been recorded by science or on film: how it uses tools to defend itself against a shark attack and the countless ways it invents to move across the seafloor.
"My Octopus Teacher " is a memorable film that redefines our understanding of the creatures with whom we share our world.
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Off the Fence and The Sea Change Project.
700 Sharks
France, 92 min, 2018
Topics: oceans, ethology, marine biology, nature, research
It has always been said that sharks are lone wolves that hunt alone. But recent research reveals that sharks hunt in packs.
Join 5 of the best marine scientists to discover the mysteries hidden in the world's largest shark group .
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The Fifth Dream.
My Love Affair With the Brain
United States, 57 min, 2017
Topics: neuroscience, brain plasticity, passion for science, women in science
"My Love Affair with the Brain " is a multi-award-winning documentary that takes viewers straight to the heart of science and offers a deeper understanding of their own brains. Critically acclaimed and widely used for educational purposes, this film is an intimate and inspiring portrait of one of the founders of modern neuroscience, Dr. Marian Diamond.
With his charismatic style and passion for science, Diamond revealed the unknown capabilities of the brain, which changed our knowledge about its incredible potential.
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Luna Productions