From the Permian through the Jurassic, journey to the south polar landscapes of Antarctica hundreds of millions of years ago. Roam the primitive forest and thick swamps with bizarre dinosaurs […]

For almost 150 years, the contributions of Chinese railroad workers to the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad was forgotten and ignored. Set on Donner Pass within the Tahoe National Forest, […]

When Voyager launched in 1977, few besides Carl Sagan believed that the search for extraterrestrial life was anything more than fantasy. But in the decades that followed, new discoveries—volcanoes on […]

Into the Amazon tells the remarkable story of the journey taken by President Theodore Roosevelt and legendary Brazilian explorer Cândido Rondon into the heart of the South American rainforest to […]

President Jimmy Carter grew up in awe of nature’s wonder. But it wasn’t until he first paddled the Chattooga River that he understood the power and majesty of a wild, […]

Ghosts are stirring in Colorado’s high country. These are the guardians of a delicate balance. They haunt the trees, the water, the animals – the very fabric of the land […]

  Showing as part of Shorts Program 6. Edgardo and Heidi Griffith are the scientists and husband-and-wife team who first realized how close Panama’s national animal might be to extinction. In […]

In the vanishing lowland rainforests of Borneo, new research is underway to uncover and understand the unique cultural behaviors in wild orangutans, before it’s too late. There, photographer Tim Laman, […]

Finalist: Eric Moe Award for Best Short on Sustainability After the fall of the Soviet Union, Tajikistan, a former Soviet Socialist Republic, plunged into a devastating civil war. A famine […]

Presented by HHMI Tangled Bank Studios; Co-presented by The Science & Entertainment Exchange – A Program of the National Academy of Sciences  Followed by the short film Second Genesis: The Quest […]