The Sacrifice of Cassini

1Ladder to the Stars

43 minMar 9, 2020★ 8.0

An adventure spanning billions of years into the evolution of life and consciousness. A visit to a 100,000-year-old laboratory. The story of the change in life-style that radically altered human existence and the life of the heretic who found god in the book of nature, opening our way to the stars.

2The Fleeting Grace of the Habitable Zone

43 minMar 9, 2020★ 8.4

There is no refuge from change in the cosmos. There will come a time in the life of the Sun when Earth will no longer be a home for us. The story of our ancestors who rose to a comparable challenge and a long-term vision of our future on other worlds.

3Lost City of Life

43 minMar 16, 2020★ 8.0

A new vision of genesis at the bottom of the blood red sea of the infant Earth. And the story of the man who found the first clues to life's beginning in a green jewel. As he searched for life's origin, he risked his own, daring to toy with his Nazi tormentors.

4Vavilov

43 minMar 16, 2020★ 8.2

In the first half of the 20th century pioneering geneticist Nikolai Vavilov traveled 5 continents assembling a treasury of the worlds seeds. He dreamed that science could be the means to end hunger. His refusal to tell a scientific lie cost him his life. The heroism of his colleagues and its direct impact on your life is one of the most stirring stories in the history of science.

5The Cosmic Connectome

43 minMar 23, 2020★ 7.7

A voyage of discovery through the evolution of consciousness with stops in ancient Greece, a visit to the largest life form on Earth, into the poignant dream of an abandoned orphan that opened the way to our understanding of the architecture of thought and beyond to a vision of a galactic network of thought.

6The Man of a Trillion Worlds

43 minMar 23, 2020★ 7.9

A child lies on the rug of a tenement dreaming of interstellar adventures. At the dawn of the space age, a young Carl Sagan's career is forged in the clash of his mentors, two scientific titans. Sagan goes on realize his childhood dreams, to carry their research forward and communicate its significance to the whole world.

7The Search for Intelligent Life on Earth

43 minMar 30, 2020★ 8.1

A revelation of the hidden underground network that is a collaboration of four kingdoms of life, and a true first contact story between humans and beings who communicate in a symbolic language and have maintained a representative democracy for many tens of millions of years.

8The Sacrifice of Cassini

43 minMar 30, 2020★ 8.4Now viewing

The mysterious untold story of the scientist who figured out how to go the Moon while fighting for his life in a WWI trench. He wrote a letter to fifty years in the future. It made the Apollo Mission possible. And the saga of the twenty-year long odyssey of a robotic explorer ordered to commit suicide on another world.

9Magic Without Lies

43 minApr 6, 2020★ 8.5

Meet the man who stumbled on a hole in the reality of quantum mechanics and the still-unfolding technology that made it possible.

10A Tale of Two Atoms

43 minApr 6, 2020★ 8.1

How a deadly embrace between science and state altered the fate of the world, and a gripping cautionary tale of mass casualty and unlikely survival.

11Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

43 minApr 13, 2020★ 8.1

An exploration of human potential for change, concluding with the story of one of history's greatest monster and his virtuous transformation.

12Coming of Age In The Anthropocene

43 minApr 13, 2020★ 8.2

A baby is born on the day the show premieres. What kind of world can she expect to grow up in? One of her possible futures is explored.

13Seven Wonders of The New World

43 minApr 20, 2020★ 7.3

Take a trip to the 2039 New York World’s Fair, where the problems we now consider hopeless have been solved and thrilling possibilities exist.