General Interest / Life Sciences

An African Community: The Masai
An African Community: The Masai
The nomadic Masai of the highlands of East Africa lead lives shaped to a great degree by their environment. Grazing lands for their cattle are...
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Archaeologists at Work
Archaeologists at Work
In this film, two archaeologists excavate a site. The artifacts they find are clues to the lives of ancient people of the Southwest. Afterwards, what...
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Carnival of Animals
Carnival of Animals
This salute to feathers, fur and fins provides a rollicking look at the animal kingdom. “A delightfully imaginative visualization.”- Landers. “An...
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Chami and Ana the Elephant
Chami and Ana the Elephant
Chami and Ana have been sharing their lives for 40 years.  They have reached a point where they understand each other’s glances and moods. ...
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Don't: The Metamorphosis of the Monarch Butterfly
Don't: The Metamorphosis of the Monarch Butterfly
An extraordinary film that won a 1974 Oscar as the year's best short documentary, "Don't" is also extraordinarily hard to classify. This Robin...
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Earth People
Earth People
Earth People is about individuals from all walks of life doing whatever they can to improve the quality of land, air, and water.  While...
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Earth Week: Seven Days to a Greener Planet
Earth Week: Seven Days to a Greener Planet
As the Earth Week kids demonstrate, even young people can understand the interrelatedness of plants, animals, air, water and land — and work to solve...
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The Erie Canal
The Erie Canal
On November 4th, 1825, Governor DeWitt Clinton stood on the deck of a packet boat and poured a keg of Lake Erie water into the New York Bay. This...
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Farm to Market: Seafood
Farm to Market: Seafood
People eat seafood caught from the ocean or raised on farms, which is called aquaculture. This program highlights a variety of these foods including...
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The Father of Camels
The Father of Camels
Punmaram has been living with camels since he was ten.  Today, he heads the largest herd in India: two hundred and fifty females and their...
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Fish: A First Film
Fish: A First Film
This program shows many different types of fish and explains what distinguishes fish from other types of animals that also live in water. The...
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Freud: The Hidden Nature of Man
Freud: The Hidden Nature of Man
This highly original program uncovers Freud's ideas in exactly the way Freud himself uncovered them: through his own dream analysis. In this way, we...
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