In this four part documentary, Simon Schama takes us to the past of America so that we can better understand the America of today.
What is the American state of mind? Literally boundless. The beckoning of the perpetual road trip, the shaking off of feathers. American freedom has been the freedom to move beyond the...
Documentaries
The American Future: A History
Six Degrees of Separation
This documentary investigates the urban myth Six Degrees of Separation. The idea that in a world of more than six billion people, everyone is connected in just a few steps. That's to say, that you know someone, who knows someone, who knows someone, .... , who knows me or anyone else on the planet. When scientists began...
Pandemic
The recent swine flu and the not so recent bird flu are related to each other in some way. They are both variants of the Influenzavirus A (correct me if I'm wrong). Scientists started to realize early on that these types of viruses not only infect their hosts and subsequently kill them, but were also able to jump from...
Maya - The Blood Of Kings
We are entering a world shrouded with mystery, where nothing is as it first might seem. It is a sacred world where a game is being played. The year 750 AD. We do not know the rules, or how many played, but this is no ordinary contest. They played this game for their lives. More than a thousand years ago, the men who...
Destination Mars
At the dawn of the 21st century, space agencies in Europe and America are making plans to land the first humans on Mars. But manned missions to the red planet have been proposed before. For some Mars holds the answers to mankind's future in space. Others say Mars is too far, too dangerous and too expensive for humans to...
