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Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Great transformations focuses on the evolutionary changes that triggered the earth's incredible diversity. Extinction! explores why, then confronts a frightening notion: are humans causing the next mass extinction-- the sixth in the history of life on earth?
Publisher
BFS Entertainment & Multimedia
Pub. Date
©2013
Language
English
Description
A 3-part dramatized documentary series that tells the extraordinary and often harrowing story of Charles Darwin's 30-year struggle to piece together the mystifying puzzle he saw in nature and finally publish his theory about the evolution of life on Earth.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
In The mind's big bang: Between 100,000 and 50,000 years ago, something happened that triggered a creative, technological and social explosion, allowing humans to dominate the planet. What forces may have contributed to the emergence of the modern human mind? In What about God?: Of all the species on earth, only humans try to explain who they are and how they came to be. Encounter real stories of people struggling to find a balance between religion...
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
This episode interweaves the drama in key moments of Darwin's life with documentary sequences of current research, linking past to present and introducing major concepts of evolutionary theory. It explores why Darwin's "dangerous idea" might matter even more today than it did in his own time, and reveals how science might be used to explain the past and predict the future of life on earth.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
The evolutionary arms race explores our own spiraling arms race with microorganisms-- the only real threat to our existence-- and trace the alarming spread of resistance among pathogens that cause disease. Why sex? investigates the endless variety of sexual expression and the powerful hold sex exerts over almost all living things. And discover why in evolutionary terms, sex is more important than life itself.
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Throughout history, the forces of evolution and genetic mutation have endowed humans with astonishing new abilities and features. It's a process that continues to this day, and nowhere is it more evident than in the fascinating world of Stan Lee's Superhumans. Co-hosted by Stan Lee, the legendary creator of the X-Men, Spider-Man, and the Hulk, the series scours the globe for the real-life counterparts of Lee's characters: people with unique genetic...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus is the first feature length documentary to explore the Darwin vs. intelligent design controversy. Filmmaker/evolutionary ecologist/surfer Dr. Randy Olson pokes fun at both sides of this debate and eventually uses his own mother, Muffy Moose, to make sense out of the issue that both Time and Newsweek recently featured on their covers. He travels to his home state of Kansas, the top battle ground...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Darwin's Brave New World is the story of how four young voyagers to the Southern Hemisphere, Charles Darwin, Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley and Alfred Russel Wallace, revolutionized science and gave birth to an extraordinary theory about the evolution of life on earth. Darwin's voyage to the Southern Hemisphere in the 1830s changed him from a directionless rich kid bound for a career in the Church, into one of the most incendiary thinkers of our age....
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Captures the turmoil that tore apart the community of Dover, Pennsylvania, in a landmark battle over the teaching of evolution in public schools. In 2004, the Dover school board ordered science teachers to read a statement to their high school biology students about an alternative to Darwin's theory of evolution called intelligent design. This idea states that life is too complex to have evolved naturally and so must have been designed by an intelligent...
13) Inherit the wind
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Based on the real-life 1925 trial featuring Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan. Famous lawyer Henry Drummond battles fundamentalist Matthew Brady in a Tennessee courtroom when schoolteacher Bertram Cates is put on trial for violating the Butler Act, a state law that prohibits public school teachers from teaching evolution.
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