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- StarsJeremy BaumbergLucy DriveUna PalliserFrom the earliest tool hewn from a single piece of stone, more than 2.5 million years ago, to advanced robotics connected to the human nervous system, the history of human civilization is a history of materials. Today more than ever we need to use materials intelligently to meet the challenges of tomorrow. The film takes us on a journey where we meet the pioneers of material science and reveal their extraordinary discoveries that are transforming the world around us.
- StarsMark MiodownikHome: Mark Miodownik shows that some of the everyday objects that are often taken for granted are in fact little pieces of domestic magic.
- StarsKevin T. MooreExplore the science, innovation and sheer genius it takes to transform the most basic ingredients into powerhouse machines.
- DirectorPenny PalmerStarsJem StansfieldBob CavaBoris Feigelson
- StarsStewart BaileyWilliam CalimerSpike CarlsenWood and its many uses are profiled. Includes the milling and processing of lumber past and present. Features matches, wooden wheels, and wood's role in planes, ships, and housing. Also featured are charcoal briquettes, timber sports and how wood can even hold up entire cities.
- DirectorTerri RandallStarsAomawa BakerEdo BergerJeanette CainesHistory's most important metals and how they advanced civilization.
- DirectorChristopher SaltStarsMark MiodownikOwen BushRhona Rogers
- StarsMichael CharltonDocumentary series tracing the discovery and use of metals from the Stone Age to the Space Age.
- DirectorPaul OldingStarsSteven JohnsonThe invention of the mirror gives rise to the Renaissamce; glass lenses reveal worlds within worlds worlds; glass is essential; for communication in the deep ocean; glass lens allows millions to watch a man walk on the moon.
- DirectorDavid BriggsStarsMark MiodownikStuart CookSteve Rannard
- StarsLucy WorsleyAmanda VickeryPatricia Whittington-FarrellFinding secret doors add and rooms.
- DirectorSteve FetschStarsBill HagenbuchWhat ties together prehistoric tools, Ben Franklin, trust busting, railroads, drug laws, plastics, nanotubes and space travel? Discover the unexpected twists that join these threads in Ropewalk, a film about ropemaking's effects on agriculture and industry in Xenia, Ohio from the Civil War to the present. Ropewalk explores rope's ancient beginnings, world history and future possibilities. Narrated by Bill Hagenbuch, former president and chief engineer of Hooven & Allison, one of the last natural fiber ropemaking companies in America.
- DirectorDaniel McCabeStarsJoanna AizenbergAngela BelcherBenjamin CharrowPart 2 of 4. A look at innovations inspired by life, including underwater Wi-Fi based on how dolphins communicate; robotic "mules" and "cheetahs" for the military; robotic bees; virus-built batteries; and "living" computers made from DNA.
- StarsScott BocklundEvan BreedlovePete DeMuthPart 4 of 4. A look at efforts to engineer a safer world, including protecting people from earthquakes; epidemics; traffic accidents; and sport injuries. Also: cyber security.
- DirectorVincent LiotaStarsDavid PoguePart 3 of 4. An examination of cold science, including its use in saving the lives of trauma patients and possibly cooling a warming planet. Also: ultracold physics, which may lead to levitating trains and benefit quantum computers.
- DirectorMichael BicksVincent LiotaAnna Lee StrachanStarsChristopher BaranMike BellerSebastiaan BowierPart 1 of 4. New York Times technology reporter David Pogue explores things that may change the way people live, beginning with efforts to tweak physiology and engineering in order to move people and machines faster.
- DirectorDaniel McCabeStarsKellar AutumnTony BrennanMark R. CutkoskyMaking stuff smarter isn't about artificial intelligence. It's more about engineering materials at the microscopic level to behave in specific ways. Today is it possible to create materials with clever designs or micro structures that permit control of a material's ability to self-heal, stick and release, self-clean, prevent disease, alter their shape and other properties. This program explains where several of these materials came from, how they work and how they are put to practical use.
- DirectorDavid HuntleyStarsBill DubeEva HakanssonJay KeaslingThis program looks at cleaner ways to generate power principally in our cars and electrical power plants. It reviews alternatives for all the steps in the fuel generation, storage and distribution processes with a particular emphasis on how unwanted waste products can play a significant role.
- DirectorChris SchmidtStarsDavid AlbersChristos BergelesAdam CohenDavid Pogue hosts this examination of miniaturization. He looks at what it takes to make things smaller focusing nanotechnology and micro-robots that one day may be used to save lives.
- DirectorChris SchmidtStarsC. Lewis AzadJim BalesRay BaughmanDavid Pogue hosts this examination of what makes material strong. He looks at the underlying material science behind steel, Kevlar, glass, chalk, carbon nanotubes, and spiderwebs.