Secrets of a long life

Documentary about living with an addict and grappling with the genetic propensity of becoming one.

A story with almost 100 years told by the 95 years old woman Floripes.

Many geneticists and archaeologists have long surmised that human life began in Africa. Dr. Spencer Wells, one of a group of scientists studying the o...

Kale Brock visits communities with improved life expectancies, low rates of disease and an extremely high quality of life well into the later years, f...

The death machine needs to maintain its longevity to expand and profit.

Earth teems with a staggering variety of animals, including 9,000 kinds of birds, 28,000 types of fish, and more than 350,000 species of beetles. What...

Can science help us understand these crimes?

How did your body become the complicated, quirky, amazing machine it is today? Anatomist Neil Shubin uncovers the answers in this 3-part science serie...

If we compare ourselves with our genetically closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, we have few physical advantages. We are far weaker, cannot mov...

The documentary tells two very different human fates in the 1920s Soviet Union. Nikolai Vavilov was a botanical genius, Trofim Lyssenko was an agronom...

After a woman's at-home DNA test reveals multiple half-siblings, she discovers a shocking scheme involving donor sperm and a popular fertility doctor.

The onset of the 21st Century will be an era in which the very nature of what it means to be human will be both enriched and challenged as our species...

This educational film from 1970 traces the inheritance of traits such as sex, eye color, height, and weight, showing the role of chromosomes and genes...