Literally burned by its proximity to the Sun, Mercury and Venus are hostile worlds. One started with the craters from cosmic collisions, and the other, a vortex of sulfur dioxide, carbon and acid rain. Prime examples of planets gone awry, do these serve as a warning for ominous scenarios that could someday threaten Earth? Vanguard … Read more
This is probably one of the oldest films released in TDF. The character of physical law is a series of seven lectures by the physicist Richard Feynman on the nature of the laws of physics. The talks were given by Feynman in 1964 at Cornell University as part of the Messenger Lectures. His text was … Read more
Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life is a documentary about Charles Darwin and his revolutionary theory of evolution by natural selection, produced by the BBC to commemorate the bicentenary of Darwin. David Attenborough asks three key questions: how and why they came to Darwin with his theory of evolution? Why do we think was … Read more
In the past few years, NASA has been in the center of attention. The National Space administration managed to launch a new mission on Mars. Project InSight successfully landed on Mars on Monday, November 26. But with that in mind, this documentary looks at another success of NASA, the International Space Station. The habitable artificial … Read more
Forty years ago, the American anthropologist Dr. Ralph Selecki explored the caves of Shanidar, where he discovered an old man’s image that profoundly changed the way we saw our ancestors. The professor discovered a skull – a Neanderthal skull. Interestingly, it was covered with microscopic pollen from the flowers of thistle, ragwort, Spiraea and mauve, … Read more
There is a strange and mysterious world around us, a world largely hidden from our senses. The search to explain the true nature of reality is a scientific detective stories. The tracks have been reconstructed from the depths of the atom, from the event horizon of a black hole, and the confines of the cosmos. … Read more
From the maker of the Zeitgeist film arrangement, Peter Joseph, comes the most noticeably bad reality show ever: the genuine one. This opening show addresses the nearing 2012 US Presidential Election and the subject of what we see as “Majority rule government” on the planet today. One of the most prominent figure of the exploratory thought Carl … Read more
Lise Meitner was a key figure in discovery of nuclear fission. However, her role in the experimental and the theoretical discovery of the fission was never properly awarded. The discovery deserved a Nobel Prize, but she never won one. Many believe Meitner was robbed of a Nobel Prize, as the award was given to her … Read more
A BBC documentary reveals for the first time, the original manuscript where Newton forecasting doomsday date. Newton, the father of modern mathematics, has devoted much of his life to the quest to decode the Bible which he believes is the word of God. For over 50 years, studied the Bible trying to unravel God’s secret laws of the universe. … Read more
The Hubble Space Telescope has taken thousands of incredible and inspiring images in the name of science. Yet, the one taken back in 1995 is the most important one. Most of us are familiar with the colorful images by the Hubble Space Telescope. Taken in 1995, this photo doesn’t gain a second look by most … Read more