Date Submitted: June 30, 2008
The partnership with NASA and IMAX films continues with a tour of the next step in space exploration: the International Space Station (ISS). Sixteen countries helped build this giant station (still being built upon the film's release in 2004). We see the first building blocks being constructed, including shots from inside the slick NASA shuttle launches to the friendly informalities of the Russian program.
Lost on Everest
Date Submitted: June 30, 2008
In 1924 British "gentleman climbers" George Mallory and Andrew Irvine attempted to reach the top of the world's tallest peak, Mount Everest (28 years before the successful expedition of Sir Edmund Hillary). Mallory and Irvine were last spotted 1,000 feet from the summit, at which point they vanished, never to be seen again.
The Astronaut Farmer
Date Submitted: June 22, 2008
All systems are "Go" for Charles Farmer. He's faced bank foreclosure neighborhood naysayers and a government alarmed by his huge purchase of high-grade fuel but now he's ready to blast into space inside the homemade rocket he built in his barn.
The Universe
Date Submitted: June 22, 2008
Take a tour of the cosmic hot zones--black holes, galaxy mergers, gamma ray bur... Take a tour of the cosmic hot zones--black holes, galaxy mergers, gamma ray bursts and magnetars. Super massive black holes can literally
Armageddon
Date Submitted: June 22, 2008
In Armageddon, an asteroid the “size of Texas" (approximately 1000 km) is about to collide with the Earth. In the scenes you will watch, two teams of astronauts are about to land on the asteroid to bury nuclear bombs inside the asteroid; the goal is to split the asteroid into two pieces which will pass on either side of the Earth.
Jurassic Park
Date Submitted: June 22, 2008
Based on Michael Crichton's novel about an island amusement park populated by cloned dinosaurs, the film works best as a thrill ride with none of the interesting human dynamics of Spielberg's Jaws. That lapse proves unfortunate, but there's no shortage of raw terror as a rampaging T-rex and nasty raptors try to make fast food out of the cast.
The Universe: Life And Death Of A Star
Date Submitted: June 04, 2008
Ignited by the power of the atom, burning with light, heat and wrath, stars are anything but peaceful.
Walking With Prehistoric Beasts: New Dawn
Date Submitted: June 04, 2008
Through stunning animation, Walking With Prehistoric Beasts follows the rise of mammals from the first signs of success aft the demise of the dinosaurs to the ice ages, when humankind completed its conquest of the world's mega fauna. It reveals not only the first appearance of familiar animals like whales, bats, horses and cats, but our own heritage running back to the very first primates.
Six Degrees Could Change the World (6 Degrees - National Geographic)
Date Submitted: June 04, 2008
In the 2004 eco-thriller The Day After Tomorrow, director Roland Emmerich dramatized the potential consequences of accelerated global warming. By combining stock footage with computer-generated imagery, the National Geographic special Six Degrees Could Change the World serves as a sort of nonfiction counterpoint.
The Physics of Star Wars
Date Submitted: May 28, 2008
The Star Wars movies are a vehicle for entertainment and their primary aim is to deliver drama, not scientific knowledge. Many of the on-screen technologies created or borrowed for the Star Wars universe were used mainly as plot devices or as aesthetic elements, and not as elements of the story in their own right.
How The Earth Was Made
Date Submitted: May 28, 2008
There's a lot of information in How the Earth Was Made, but perhaps the most interesting relates to time. Quite often, the numbers are so staggering that scientists refer to it as "deep time," an appropriate term when one grapples with the notion that our planet is 4.5 billion years old, or that the oceans were formed by rainfall that lasted literally millions of years, or that 700 million years ago, Earth was completely covered by ice that was a mile thick, with surface temperatures reaching minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
Greatest Discoveries With Bill Nye: Physics
Date Submitted: May 28, 2008
Nye explores how the universe operates and why things move and work the way they do. He also explains the second law of thermodynamics, electromagnetism, and how superconductors can help accelerate particles to near the speed of light.
Greatest Discoveries With Bill Nye: Earth Sciences
Date Submitted: May 28, 2008
Earth is always changing, and Earth's species must continually adapt. Host Bill Nye gives an inside look at planet Earth, from its inner core to its protective magnetic field. Discover how earthquakes and volcanoes help explain plate tectonics and the dynamic geology of oceans and continents.
Planet Earth: From Pole to Pole
Date Submitted: May 24, 2008
As of its release in early 2007, Planet Earth is quite simply the greatest nature/wildlife series ever produced. Following the similarly monumental achievement of The Blue Planet: Seas of Life, this astonishing 11-part BBC series is brilliantly narrated by Sir David Attenborough and sensibly organized so that each 50-minute episode covers a specific geographical region
Bill Nye: Energy
Date Submitted: May 24, 2008
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Eyewitness: Plant
Date Submitted: May 14, 2008
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Newton's Dark Secrets
Date Submitted: May 10, 2008
He was a 17th century Einstein, who reduced nature’s chaos to a single set of laws and revolutionized the thinking and outlook of his age. But in the midst of his astonishing breakthroughs in physics, optics, and calculus, Isaac Newton was also searching out hidden meanings in the Bible and pursuing the covert art of alchemy, or the changing of base metals into gold.
History of World War II: Hiroshima (BBC)
Date Submitted: May 10, 2008
How could a political party as fundamentally evil and overtly racist as the Nazis come to power? Why was Japan known for its admirable treatment of POWs in WWI responsible for such grim atrocities in the Second World War?
Fat Man and Little Boy
Date Submitted: May 10, 2008
In real life, Robert Oppenheimer was the scientific head of the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built. General Leslie Groves was in overall command of it. This film reenacts the project with an emphasis on their relationship.
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
Date Submitted: May 10, 2008
In the salad days of nuclear-weapons testing, the United States detonated 331 atomic, hydrogen, and thermonuclear bombs. Many of those explosions appear in Trinity and Beyond, which utilizes a lot of declassified footage, most of it in color. Standouts include the United States' South Pacific detonation of an atom bomb 90 feet below the water to study the effects on a fleet of ships.