Films
This Changes Everything
A look at seven communities around the world with the proposition that we can seize the crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better.
(500) Days of Summer
Tom, greeting-card writer and hopeless romantic, is caught off-guard when his girlfriend, Summer, suddenly dumps him. Reflecting on their 500 days together to try to figure out where their love affair went sour, Tom rediscovers his true passions in life.
12 Monkeys
In a future world, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet.
1984
In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.
2001: A Space Odyssey
Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer HAL 9000, sets off on a quest.
2012
A frustrated writer struggles to keep his family alive when a series of global catastrophes threatens to annihilate mankind.
2030
In a near future Vietnam where global warming and rising seawater levels have forced cultivation to be done on floating farms, a strong-willed woman has to make a critical decision about her ex-lover, a suspect of her husband's murder.
28 Days Later
Animal rights activists free a group of infected chimpanzees to horrifying results in this speculative sci-fi horror effort from director Danny Boyle.
3 Idiots
Two friends looking for a lost buddy deal with a forgotten bet, a wedding they are forced to crash, and an out of control funeral.
8 Mile
A young rapper, struggling with every aspect of his life, wants to make it big, but his friends and foes make this odyssey of rap harder than it may seem.
A Birder's Guide to Everything
Teenaged birding fanatic David Portnoy takes an epic road trip with his best friends to solidify their place in birding history.
A Brief History of Time
A film about the life and work of cosmologist Stephen Hawking, who, despite his near total paralysis, is one of the great minds of all time.
A Brief History of Time
Errol Morris's adaptation of cosmologist Stephen Hawking's popular book about his theories of the universe illustrates Hawking's complex ideas and also shows Hawking's daily life as he deals with the ALS that renders him virtually immobile and unable to speak without the use of computer.
A Clockwork Orange
In future Britain, charismatic delinquent Alex DeLarge is jailed and volunteers for an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government in an effort to solve society's crime problem—but not all goes according to plan.
A Face in the Crowd
Drunken drifter Lonesome Rhodes becomes an overnight media sensation, rising from itinerant Ozark guitar picker to local media rabble-rouser to TV superstar and political king-maker.
A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet
The history of the environmental movement's evolution from the 1960s to the present.
A Fish Called Wanda
In London, four very different people team up to commit armed robbery, then try to doublecross each other for the loot.
A Knight's Tale
A hot-headed and gifted peasant squire, fueled by his desire for food and glory, creates a new identity for himself as a knight.
A Mother’s Courage: Talking Back to Autism
The mother of an autistic child is determined not to accept a pessimistic prognosis for her son.
A Scanner Darkly
An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
A highly advanced robotic boy longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human mother.
AAAS Science and Film Showcase
Meet the scientists and filmmakers behind five award-winning science films at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2016 Science Film Showcase. The event features clips from each film, conversation with the filmmakers and scientists, and audience questions.