The flow of water across a giant expanse of featureless mud is pushing hundreds of thousands of birds in motion. The lunar clock shrinks the stage minute by minute, setting in place the start of a battle, or maybe a dance, between a mass gathering of a million sea birds and a single super-speed predator.
The Calling follows the journey of a diverse group of medical students at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx as they learn what it takes to become doctors in one of America’s most underserved communities.
In the late 1970s, Satish Bhaskar embarked on an unparalleled journey, navigating India's expansive coastlines to survey its remote and uninhabited islands and beaches. This intrepid explorer, affectionately known as "Mr. Sea Turtle," was on a mission to unravel the mysteries surrounding the Indian Ocean’s elusive sea turtles. Through his solitary expeditions, Satish discovered the nesting sites of these enigmatic creatures, each discovery adding a new chapter to his extraordinary life.
Told through the eyes of Grammy-nominated DJ and marine biologist, Jayda Guy, accompanied by a score from the Wu-Tang Clan's RZA and featuring Seu Jorge, Blue Carbon is an environmental feature documentary that brings together music and science to uncover what could be our greatest weapon in the fight against climate change.
Amid the glamor of Hollywood, Los Angeles, a woman finds herself on a transformative journey as she nurtures wounded hummingbirds, unraveling a visually captivating and magical tale of love, fragility, healing, and the delicate beauty in tiny acts of greatness.
Based on Isabella Tree’s best-selling book by the same title, Wilding tells the story of a young couple that bets on nature for the future of their failing, four-hundred-year-old estate. The young couple battles entrenched tradition, and dares to place the fate of their farm in the hands of nature. Ripping down the fences, they set the land back to the wild and entrust its recovery to a motley mix of animals both tame and wild.
In one of the world’s most polluted cities, two brothers devote their lives to a bird – the black kite. From the tiny basement of their family business, they rescue tens of thousands of these mesmeric creatures that drop daily from the thick grey skies, and dream of someday building a proper wildlife hospital.
On January 15th, 2015, a few weeks after completing his memoir, the writer and neurologist Oliver Sacks learned that the rare form of cancer for which he had been treated seven years earlier had returned, and that he had only a few months to live. One month later, he sat down with director, Ric Burns, for a series of marathon filmed interviews in his apartment in New York.
Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique has become one of the most celebrated wildlife restoration stories in Africa. After a quarter century of civil war and political turmoil wiped out more than 95% of the large mammal population, a decade of renewed protection and careful conservation has brought the park back from the brink.
Academy Award-winning Passion Pictures and HHMI Tangled Bank Studios present one of the most important, but untold science stories of our time—a tale with profound implications for the fate of life on our planet.
