Our Films

Meet Pat Brown, the biochemist behind the invention of the Impossible Burger has set his sights on his next great project: converting cattle ranches back into forests, a task much easier said than done.

Winner of the Jackson Wild Grand Teton Award, Turtle Walker tells the story of Satish Bhaskar who embarked on an epic journey along India's spectacular coastlines to save sea turtles from extinction.

The Calling follows the journey of a diverse group of medical students at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx as they learn what it takes to become doctors in one of America’s most underserved communities.

Told through the eyes of Grammy-nominated DJ and marine biologist, Jayda Guy, BLUE CARBON uncovers what could be our greatest ally in the fight against climate change.  

Follow a conservation movement of bird-loving experts and citizen scientists as they mobilize to the challenge of understanding and saving shorebirds.

Available to stream on PBS.org, HUNT FOR THE OLDEST DNA brings viewers inside one of the most scintillating scientific breakthroughs in years.

Every Little Thing unravels a visually captivating and magical tale of love, fragility, healing, and the delicate beauty in tiny acts of greatness.

Wild Hope is an intimate, global series profiling everyday people, conservationists and scientists who are restoring and protecting our planet.

Emmy-nominated The Battle to Beat Malaria tells the story of a new vaccine that may finally help humanity triumph against one of the world’s deadliest diseases.

Winner of the Giving Voice to the Voiceless award at the Hamptons International Film Festival, Wilding tells the story of a young couple that turns to a rag-tag group of animals to help rewild their family estate. 

Blue Whales: Return of the Giants 3D takes viewers on a journey of a lifetime to explore the world of the magnificent blue whale.

The surprise discovery of an uncharted coral reef sparks a race to document its ecological riches—and protect them—before they’re lost.  

Oscar-nominated ALL THAT BREATHES is the first film to win Best Documentary at both the Cannes Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival. 

ENDING HIV IN AMERICA explores the unexpected scientific journey that has led us to this pivotal moment: the end of HIV in America. 

Emmy- nominated MY GARDEN OF A THOUSAND BEES took home the Golden Panda Award at the Wildscreen Film Festival (the “Green Oscars") and won the IMPACT DOCS Award for outreach. 

Broadcast in the U.S. on CNN, the UK on BBC and around the world in spring 2021, RACE FOR THE VACCINE, which captured scientists developing the COVID vaccine at the height of the pandemic, reached millions of viewers at the moment the science was most needed.

A bold experiment to bring rare and fierce African wild dogs back to Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique reveals how predators—and the fear they trigger—play a surprising and crucial role in keeping wild ecosystems healthy.

Ric Burns explores the life of the legendary neurologist as he shares details of his battles with addiction, homophobia, and a medical establishment that accepted his work only decades after the fact. 

The course of life on Earth changed radically on a single day 66 million years ago. The impact ended the Age of Dinosaurs and launched our age, the Age of Mammals.

Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique has become one of the most celebrated wildlife restoration stories in Africa. 

An original theatrical film, and Emmy and Kavli award-winning PBS/Nature release, THE SERENGETI RULES tells the story of five pioneering scientists that flipped our understanding of nature on its head, and offers new hope for restoring our natural world.

BACKYARD WILDERNESS will surprise and entertain viewers with the unexpected wonders of nature that are right under our noses—in our own backyards.

A Peabody award-winning story of passionate teenage inventors from around the globe creating cutting-edge solutions to the world's environmental threats. INVENTING TOMORROW premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2018.

I CONTAIN MULTITUDES leads a journey through the microbiomes of our planet–a realm of surprising alliances between microbes and larger creatures, including ourselves.

THE FARTHEST tells the epic story of the perilous 40-year odyssey of the Voyager mission, which revolutionized our understanding of the outer planets and ushered humanity into the interstellar age.

Follow planetary scientist Carolyn Porco as she explores what it takes to look for life beyond Earth, and what conditions are required for life to exist.

Through intimate stories of families whose lives are being transformed, THE GENE DOCTORS takes viewers to the frontlines of a medical revolution.

AMAZON ADVENTURE tells the epic, true story of explorer Henry Bates’ fascinating 11-year journey through the visually stunning and biodiverse Amazon rainforest as a young man who risks his life for science in the 1850s.

Meet everyday people confronting this devastating disease and the researchers hoping to slow its advance.

Set in southern Africa, THE LUCKY SPECIALS uses popular music from the region and weaves a dramatic storyline with important public health information about how to prevent and treat tuberculosis.