Teenage geniuses deal with their abilities while developing a laser.

Across walls, fences, and alleys, rats not only expose our boundaries of separation but make homes in them. Filmmaker Theo Anthony looks at the rat—and the people who love them or kill them—to explore the history of classism and racism in Baltimore.

A sheltered chameleon house-pet who dreams of being a swashbuckling hero finds himself in a Western town plagued by bandits and is forced to play that role in real life to protect it.

Akira Kurosawa’s Academy Award-winning adaptation of William Shakespeare’s King Lear, Ran considers the disastrous consequences of Lord Hidetora Ichimonji’s decision to split his kingdom among his three sons.

Archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the US government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis do. 

Undercover activists try to stave off a man-made mass extinction.

Japanese university students investigate a series of suicides linked to an Internet webcam that promises visitors the chance to interact with the dead.

A Phoenix secretary steals $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.

This documentary offers a view of North America's freshwater inland ocean through the prism of ice.

Project Nim tells the story of a chimpanzee taken from its mother at birth and raised like a human child by a family in a brownstone in the Upper West Side during the 1970s.

A research team finds a mysterious cylinder in a deserted church. If opened, it could mean the end of the world.

Four friends and fledgling entrepreneurs, knowing that there's something bigger and more innovative than the different error-checking devices they've built, wrestle over their new invention.

Filmmaker Frederick Wiseman follows scientists as they study the physical and mental development of primates.

This animated adventure follows a five-year-old boy and his relationship with Ponyo, a goldfish princess who longs to become human after falling in love with him.

Planetary presents a stunning visual portrait of our Earth, from the African savanna to the Himalayas, and from the heart of Tokyo to the view of our fragile planet in orbit.

An astronaut crew crash lands on a planet in the distant future where intelligent talking apes are the dominant species, and humans are the oppressed and enslaved.

A paranoid mathematician searches for a key number that will unlock the universal patterns found in nature.

Why is a curveball curved? What makes the sweet spot so sweet? Why do outfielders instinctively run in an arc instead of a straight line? And why have some physicists stated that, at least on paper, hitting a home run is impossible?

Desert ants suddenly form a collective intelligence and begin to wage war on the desert inhabitants. It is up to two scientists and a stray girl they rescue from the ants to destroy them.

After refusing to attack an enemy position, a general accuses a group of soldiers of cowardice and their commanding officer must defend them.

The true story of Hunter "Patch" Adams. Determined to become a medical doctor, Adams ventured where no doctor had ventured before, using humor and pathos.

As the Large Hadron Collider is about to be launched for the first time, physicists are on the cusp of the greatest scientific discovery of all time—or perhaps their greatest failure.

When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patients' dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it.

A doctor and a policeman in New Orleans have only 48 hours to locate a killer infected with pneumonic plague.