Subgenre Sampler
Science Fact: 181 Films to Buy & Rent
- Tim's Vermeer (2013)
- Dir. Teller
Feat. Penn Jillette
- Science and art coalesce in this extraordinary story of Texan tech pioneer and obsessive polymath Tim Jenison's attempt to perfectly reproduce a…
- Wonders of Life (TV Series) (2013)
- Feat. Professor Brian Cox
- This third installment in physicist Brian Cox's exposition of the origins of the universe focuses on the fundamental principles that enabled life to…
- Chasing Ice (2012)
- Dir. Jeff Orlowski
- National Geographic photographer James Balog’s Extreme Ice Survey project, which sees him capture time–lapse photographs of numerous glaciers…
- Great Barrier Reef (2012)
- Three–part series narrated by Monty Halls offering a definitive guide to the secrets of what is the largest living structure on the planet…
- Kingdom of Plants (TV Series) (2012)
- Feat. David Attenborough
- David Attenborough updates his previous botany series, THE PRIVATE LIFE OF PLANTS, with the help of new technology to gain further insight into the…
- Orbit: Earth's Extraordinary Journey (2012)
- The planet's wild and varied weather is studied in relation to the earth's orbit in this spectacular BBC nature series.
- Survivors: Nature's Indestructible Creatures (2012)
- Professor Richard Fortey conducts this fascinating search across the globe for life forms which have survived the three biggest mass extinctions in…
- Chelsea Flower Show, The (2011)
- Feat. Carol Klein
- Superb highlights from the Royal Horticultural Society's Chelsea Flower Show from 2006 to 2010. Spread across 5 discs, divided by year, this covers…
- Fabric of the Cosmos, The (2011)
- Author of 'The Elegant Universe', physicist Brian Greene, seeks to charge our perceptions and conventional wisdom around the nature of the universe…
- Frozen Planet (TV Series) (2011)
- Another spectacular, seen–to–be–believed documentary from the BBC's natural history unit, this time focusing on life in the Arctic…