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Showing 1 - 10 of 10 titles with a criteria of Available to public libraries AND Subject is History of Science
Black Sun
A history of the esoteric ideas and myths that served as a breeding ground for Nazi ideology and inspired Adolf Hiter.
Icarus Films | 2009 | 90 minutes
A Dangerous Idea
Examines the history of the US eugenics movement and its recent resurrection, which uses false scientific claims and holds that an all-powerful 'gene' determines who is worthy and who is not. This title has one or more clips.
Bullfrog Films | 2017 | 106 minutes
I Am Become Death: They Made the Bomb
Illuminating stories told by scientists who actually worked on the Manhattan Project.
Icarus Films | 1995 | 55 minutes
In Search of Memory
The life and work of one of the most important neuroscientists of the 20th century, Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel.
Icarus Films | 2008 | 95 minutes
A Natural History of Laughter
A lively look at the latest developments in the scientific study of laughter.
Icarus Films | 2011 | 48 minutes
The Scientist, the Imposter and Stalin
Two extraordinary human destinies, caught up in the implacable political machinery of the burgeoning Soviet Union of the 1920s, prey to famine.
Icarus Films | 2017 | 55 minutes
A Sense of Wonder
Rachel Carson's love for the natural world and her fight to defend it.
Bullfrog Films | 2009 | 55 minutes
Symbiotic Earth
Explores the life and ideas of Lynn Margulis, a scientific rebel who challenged entrenched theories of evolution to present a new narrative: life evolves through collaboration.
Bullfrog Films | 2018 | 147 minutes
Trinity
Explores the ironies created in the aftermath of the first nuclear bomb detonation.
First Run Features | 2024 | 76 minutes
Uranium Derby
A filmmaker discovers that her hometown of Ames, IA, was secretly involved in the Manhattan Project.
Bullfrog Films | 2023 | 83 minutes
