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Alien(1979)

R
| 1h 57min | Horror, Science Fiction
4.1/5 (with 6,482 votes)

During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.

Directed by Ridley Scott - With Yaphet Kotto, Veronica Cartwright, Tom Skerritt, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Helen Horton, ...
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The Andromeda Strain(1971)

G
| 2h 11min | Science Fiction, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 280 votes)

When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico, are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. A group of eminent scientists led by Dr. Jeremy Stone scramble to a secure laboratory and try to first isolate the life form while determining why two people from Piedmont - an old alcoholic and a six-month-old baby - survived. The scientists methodically study the alien life form unaware that it has already mutated and presents a far greater danger in the lab, which is equipped with a nuclear self-destruct device designed to prevent the escape of dangerous biological agents.

Directed by Robert Wise - With Arthur Hill, James Olson, Kate Reid, David Wayne, Paula Kelly, George Mitchell, ...
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Human Nature(2019)

1h 47min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 13 votes)

The biggest tech revolution of the 21st century isn’t digital, it’s biological. A breakthrough called CRISPR gives us unprecedented control over the basic building blocks of life. It opens the door to curing disease, reshaping the biosphere, and designing our own children. This documentary is a provocative exploration of CRISPR’s far-reaching implications, through the eyes of the scientists who discovered it, the families it’s affecting, and the genetic engineers who are testing its limits.

Directed by Adam Bolt

Unrest(2017)

1h 37min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 21 votes)

When Harvard PhD student Jennifer Brea is struck down at 28 by a fever that leaves her bedridden, doctors tell her it’s "all in her head." Determined to live, she sets out on a virtual journey to document her story—and four other families' stories—fighting a disease medicine forgot.

Directed by Jennifer Brea - With Jennifer Brea, Whitney Dafoe
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Agnes and His Brothers(2004)

1h 51min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 12 votes)

Focuses on three very different siblings, all searching for happiness. Hans-Jörg is a sex addicted librarian, who is interested in young students. Werner is a successful politician with a dysfunctional family. Agnes, a trans woman, works as a table dancer in a night club. The three brothers just have one thing in common: their longing for a happy life.

Directed by Oskar Roehler - With Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Katja Riemann, Tom Schilling, Kelly Trump, Lee Daniels, ...

Primal Rage(1988)

1h 32min | Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
2.6/5 (with 14 votes)

A scientist at a Florida university inadvertently creates a "rage virus" while performing experiments intended to restore dead brain tissue in baboons. When a journalist for the college paper breaks into the campus lab, he's bitten by one of the infected baboons; the virus soon spreads to a trio of rapists and a valley girl, all of whom go on killing sprees.

Directed by Vittorio Rambaldi, Umberto Lenzi - With Bo Svenson, John Paul Jones, Sarah G. Buxton

Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life(2009)

1h | Documentary, TV Movie
3.9/5 (with 12 votes)

Darwin's great insight – that life has evolved over millions of years by natural selection – has been the cornerstone of all David Attenborough’s natural history series. In this documentary, he takes us on a deeply personal journey which reflects his own life and the way he came to understand Darwin’s theory.

Genesis(2004)

1h 17min | Documentary
3.1/5 (with 15 votes)

An African narrator tells the story of earth history, the birth of the universe and evolution of life. Beautiful imagery makes this movie documentary complete.

Directed by Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou - With Sotigui Kouyaté

Blue Planet(1990)

40min | Documentary
2.8/5 (with 11 votes)

From the unique vantage point of 200 miles above Earth's surface, we see how natural forces - volcanoes, earthquakes and hurricanes - affect our world, and how a powerful new force - humankind - has begun to alter the face of the planet. From Amazon rain forests to Serengeti grasslands, Blue Planet inspires a new appreciation of life on Earth, our only home.

Directed by Ben Burtt

The Private Life of Plants(1995)

4h 52min | Documentary
4.3/5 (with 14 votes)

David Attenborough takes us on a guided tour through the secret world of plants, to see things no unaided eye could witness. Each episode in this six-part series focuses on one of the critical stages through which every plant must pass if it is to survive:- travelling, growing, and flowering; struggling with one another; creating alliances with other organisms both plant and animal; and evolving complex ways of surviving in the earth's most ferociously hostile environments.

Inside the Human Body(2011)

1h | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 6 votes)

Using spectacular graphics based on the latest science and stories of remarkable people around the world, Michael Mosley takes us on a fantastic voyage through our inner universe.

All Night Long R(2002)

1h 23min | Horror
3.2/5 (with 5 votes)

The story of a disturbed individual named Yuuki who captures two Japanese girls.

Directed by Katsuya Matsumura
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Origins of Life(2001)

39min | Documentary
2.6/5 (with 2 votes)

A documentary that explores the natural world of the sea, from the single-celled organism to more complex forms of life, OCEAN ORIGINS was originally filmed in the IMAX large format, which adds a crispness and clarity to the images. This documentary film seeks to examine the process of evolution by looking at the many creatures of the sea that can illustrate the way multi-cellular life emerged over the course of four billion years. OCEAN ORIGINS is a creative film that uses fascinating documentary footage to look at scientific theories and principles in an interesting manner.

The Genius of Charles Darwin(2008)

2h 19min | Documentary
3.7/5 (with 7 votes)

A documentary series from Channel 4, hosted by professor Richard Dawkins, well-known darwinist. The series mixes segments on the life and discoveries of Charles Darwin, the theory of natural selection and evolution, and Dawkins' attempts at convincing a group of school children that evolution explains the world around us better than any religion.

Directed by Russell Barnes - With Richard Dawkins

Inside the Living Body(2007)

NR
| 1h 40min | Documentary
3.8/5 (with 4 votes)

Take a fascinating journey inside the bizarre world of a living human being with this compelling documentary from National Geographic, where microscopic cameras and other state-of-the-art technologies reveal perspectives that will blow your mind. Tracking the body of a female from infancy to old age, viewers will observe the digestion of a meal, the development of the cardiac system and other mesmerizing aspects of the body's inner workings.

The Blob: A Genius without a Brain(2019)

52min | Documentary
4.5/5 (with 3 votes)

This documentary outlines the unique properties and latest studies of "Physarum Polycephalum", also known as Blob.

The Body(1970)

1h 52min | Documentary
2.6/5 (with 3 votes)

A psychedelic documentary of the body electric, with music by Pink Floyd. The film was directed and produced by Roy Battersby. The film's narrators, Frank Finlay and Vanessa Redgrave, provide commentary that combines the knowledge of human biologists and anatomical experts. The film's soundtrack, Music from the Body, was composed by Ron Geesin and Roger Waters.

Directed by Roy Battersby

The Lion In Your Living Room(2015)

50min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 9 votes)

The film is filled with fun facts that show how cats make good pets, yet in other ways are wild and untamable.

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Darwin's Darkest Hour(2009)

1h 44min | Drama, History, Documentary
2.8/5 (with 4 votes)

In 1858 Charles Darwin struggles to publish one of the most controversial scientific theories ever conceived, while he and his wife Emma confront family tragedy.

National Geographic: Incredible Human Machine(2007)

2h | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 4 votes)

National Geographic: Incredible Human Machine takes viewers on a two-hour journey through an ordinary, and extraordinary, day-in-the-life of the human machine. With stunning high-definition footage, radical scientific advances and powerful firsthand accounts, Incredible Human Machine plunges deep into the routine marvels of the human body. Through 10,000 blinks of an eye, 20,000 breaths of air and 100,000 beats of the heart, see the amazing and surprising, even phenomenal inner workings of our bodies on a typical day. And explore striking feats of medical advancement, from glimpses of an open-brain surgery to real-time measurement of rocker Steven Tyler's vocal chords.

In The Womb(2005)

2h | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

In The Womb is a 2005 National Geographic Channel documentary that focus on studying and showing the development of the embryo in the uterus. The show makes extensive use of Computer-generated imagery to recreate the real stages of the process.

How to Grow a Planet(2012)

2h 57min | Documentary
4.6/5 (with 4 votes)

Geologist Ian Stewart explain in three stages of natural history the crucial interaction of our very planet's physiology and its unique wildlife. Biological evolution is largely driven bu adaptation to conditions such as climate, soil and irrigation, but biotopes were also shaped by wildlife changing earth's surface and climate significantly, even disregarding human activity.

Proteus: A Nineteenth Century Vision(2004)

1h | Documentary, Animation, History
2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The animated documentary Proteus explores the nineteenth century's engagement with the undersea world through science, technology, painting, poetry and myth. The central figure of the film is biologist and artist Ernst Haeckel, who found in the depths of the sea an ecstatic and visionary fusion of science and art.

Directed by David Lebrun - With Corey Burton
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Darwin's Struggle: The Evolution of the Origin of Species(2009)

1h | Documentary
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Documentary telling the little-known story of how Darwin came to write his great masterpiece, On the Origin of Species, a book which explains the wonderful variety of the natural world as emerging out of death and the struggle of life. In the twenty years he took to develop a brilliant idea into a revolutionary book, Darwin went through a personal struggle every bit as turbulent as that of the natural world he observed. Fortunately, he left us an extraordinary record of his brilliant insights, observations of nature, and touching expressions of love and affection for those around him. He also wrote frank accounts of family tragedies, physical illnesses and moments of self-doubt, as he laboured towards publication of the book that would change the way we see the world. The story is told with the benefit of Darwin's secret notes and correspondence, enhanced by natural history filming, powerful imagery from the time and contributions from leading contemporary biographers and scientists.

Bacterial World(2016)

54min | Documentary
4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Coming in all shapes and sizes, bacteria are present in every corner of the Earth. Their purposes and types are even more diverse, with only 1% being truly harmful. Dive into the world of Bacteria to experience the latest discoveries and scientific knowledge surrounding these plentiful and necessary microbes.

Your Inner Fish(2014)

3h | Documentary
4.4/5 (with 4 votes)

How did your body become the complicated, quirky, amazing machine it is today? Anatomist Neil Shubin uncovers the answers in this 3-part science series that looks at human evolution. Using fossils, embryos and genes, he reveals how our bodies are the legacy of ancient fish, reptiles and primates — the ancestors you never knew were in your family tree.

Attenborough: 60 Years in the Wild(2012)

G
| 2h 55min | Documentary, Kids & Family
4.1/5 (with 2 votes)

Over three very personal films, Sir David Attenborough looks back at the unparalleled changes in natural history that he has witnessed during his 60-year career.

Our Secret Universe: The Hidden Life of the Cell(2012)

57min | Documentary
3.9/5 (with 2 votes)

This film reveals the exquisite machinery of the human cell system from within the inner world of the cell itself - from the frenetic membrane surface that acts as a security system for everything passing in and out of the cell, the dynamic highways that transport cargo across the cell and the remarkable turbines that power the whole cellular world to the amazing nucleus housing DNA and the construction of thousands of different proteins all with unique tasks. The virus intends to commandeer this system to one selfish end: to make more viruses. And they will stop at nothing to achieve their goal.

Amazon: Land of the Flooded Forest(1990)

56min | Documentary
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Explore an extraordinary region where water and land life intermingle six months out of the year.

The Magic Of Mushrooms(2014)

1h | Documentary
3.8/5 (with 6 votes)

Professor Richard Fortey delves into the fascinating and normally-hidden kingdom of fungi. From their spectacular birth, through their secretive underground life to their final explosive death, Richard reveals a remarkable world that few of us understand or even realise exists - yet all life on Earth depends on it.

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