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Language: English
Country of Origin: Canada
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BBC Planet Earth ep1 - Pole To Pole:Follow the sun as it touches the lives of creatures across the planet, bringing a fresh understanding of how the world is interconnected.
BBC Planet.Earth - Ep. 2 - Mountains :Tour the planet's mightiest mountain ranges and meet the rare animals that inhabit them.
BBC PLANET EARTH 4- Caves:Descend into the only habitat not directly driven by sunlight to discover some of the most peculiar creatures on Earth.
BBC PLANET EARTH 6- Ice Worlds:Venture to the poles of our planet and find the harshest wild lands, where seasonal change is extreme.
Planet Earth EP07 Great.Plains: Trek to the Earth's largest land habitats, where vast open spaces play host to the biggest groups of animals in the world.
Planet Earth Ep.08 - Jungles: Delve deep into this ecosystem, beyond the flourishing plant life, and find an environment that tests each animal's survival skills.
BBC PLANET EARTH 9 Shallow Seas: Dive into the planet's shallow waters where sunlight reaches the seabed and find an explosion of life.
Planet Earth 11 Ocean Deep: Explore the depths of the planet's oceans and discover some of this mysterious world's most spectacular species.
The corporation: explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time. If Coroporations have all the legal rights of a person (which they do), then question is, what kind of human being they are?
Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness: 01 - Socrates on Self-Confidence - Why do so many people go along with the crowd and fail to stand up for what they truly believe?
Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness: 02 - Epicurus on Happiness - who was no epicurean glutton or wanton consumerist,but an advocate of "friends, freedom and thought" as the path to happiness.
Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness: 03 - Seneca on Anger - He thought anger arose from certain rationally held ideas about the world, and the problem with these ideas is that they are far too optimistic.
04 - Montaigne on Self-Esteem - who singled out three main reasons for feeling bad about oneself - sexual inadequecy, failure to live up to social norms, and intellectual inferiority - and then offered practical solutions for overcoming them.
Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness: 05 - Schopenhauer on Love - who believed that love was the most important thing in life because of its powerful impulse towards 'the will-to-life'.
Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness: 06 - Nietzche on Hardship - explores Friedrich Nietzsche's (1844-1900) dictum that any worthwhile achievements in life come from the experience of overcoming hardship.
The Human Animal - The Language of the Body Part 1 of 6: focuses on the planet's most advanced animal, beginning with a look at how man communicated before the evolution of language.
The Hunting Ape 2: our fundamental activity - finding food, examining how humans exploit even the most inhospitable environments, and analysing how our origins as hunter-gatherers manifest themselves in the fast-food culture.
The Human Zoo 3: capture the subtleties of human hierarchy in an English pub, the urge to set up and defend territory in a Tokyo park, and tribal behaviour as displayed by gangs in Los Angeles.
Biology of Love 4: analyzes the biological nature of love, with its attendant patterns of behaviour and signals of health and fertility that have evolved to ensure pair-bonding and genetic survival.
The Immortal Genes Part 5: looks at the natural history of the human parent and child. Why do homo sapiens devote more time and sacrifice for their children?
Stephen Hawking’s Universe – 1. Seeing is Believing :Where did we come from? The history of cosmology from flat earth to Big Bang: Eratosthenes and Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Edwin Hubble.
Stephen Hawking’s Universe – 2. In the Beginning: Did the universe have a beginning? The Steady-State theory vs. The Big Bang, Albert Einstein, Georges Lemaître, Fred Hoyle, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, cosmic background radiation.
Stephen Hawking’s Universe – 3. Cosmic Alchemy: What is the universe and everything in it made of? The creation of matter, the building up of elements in stars.
Stephen Hawking’s Universe – 4. On the Dark Side: What is the destiny of the universe? Dark matter, WIMPS, MACHOS, neutrinos.
Stephen Hawking’s Universe – 5. Black Holes and Beyond: Are black holes real? Ultraluminous quasars and supermassive black holes, wormholes, and singularities.
Beyond Survival 6 of 6: Beyond Survival: examines what the human animal does when it has sorted out its basic needs - food, warmth and shelter - and has gone beyond mere survival.
Stephen Hawking’s Universe – 6. Answer to Everything: Is there a theory that will encompass everything in the known universe? Inflation theory, quantum mechanics, string theory.
Baraka: a worldless film, glimpses into what happens on a regular day on Earth
The Human Sexes 1 of 6 - Different But Equal: reveals which aspects of gender are "hard-wired" -- that is, biological -- and which are determined by a person's culture.
The Human Sexes (Part Two) - The Language Of The Sexes: looks at the universal and culturally based ways that men and women communicate their sexuality in various societies across the globe.
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