Rhinos in the Freezer

A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography. It includes bees collecting nectar, ladybugs eating mites, snails mating, spiders wrapping their catch, a scarab beetle relentlessly pushing its ball of dung uphill, endless lines of caterpillars, an underwater spider...

Runtime

1h 20m

Director

Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou

Cast

Jacques Perrin, Kristin Scott Thomas

From the unique vantage point of 200 miles above Earth's surface, we see how natural forces - volcanoes, earthquakes and hurricanes - affect our world, and how a powerful new force - humankind - has begun to alter the face of the planet. From Amazon rain forests to Serengeti grasslands, Blue Planet inspires a new appreciation of life o...

Runtime

40m

Director

Ben Burtt

Cast

James Buchli, Toni Myers

Travel alongside the astronauts as they deploy and repair the Hubble Space Telescope, soar above Venus and Mars, and find proof of new planets and the possibility of other life forming around distant stars.

Runtime

39m

Director

Ben Burtt

Cast

Leonard Nimoy

Many geneticists and archaeologists have long surmised that human life began in Africa. Dr. Spencer Wells, one of a group of scientists studying the origin of human life, offers evidence and theories to support such a thesis in this PBS special. He claims that Africa was populated by only a few thousand people that some deserted their ...

Runtime

2h

Cast

Spencer Wells

Documentary footage from various sources, set to music. Showing the whole of human life, from birth to death and beyond.

Runtime

1h 23m

Director

Simon Pummell