Living Virtually
How might the desire to invent photography lead us to a world where we live entirely virtually? From photojournalism, war and anarchy, to wild hedonistic people gathered naked in the desert in search of communion, Alie Ward will point us towards a future where we might upload ourselves to the web.
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Fighting Mortality
What is the secret to eternal life? Alie Ward takes us on a journey from an ancient herbal remedy, through naturalistic theatre, the horrifying results of atomic weapons, to embryonic stem cells and a tantalizing prospect - a future where our bodies are tricked into keeping us forever young.
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Hacking Happiness
What could possibly link rockets and antidepressants? Are we on the cusp of having a neural switch that can control our moods? Alie Ward weaves a chain of extraordinary connections, from our earliest dreams of standing on the moon, to our pill-popping present and a future of happiness on-demand.
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Faking Faces

Wed, Nov 08, 2023
Alie Ward takes us on a journey that at face value seems very dubious. From deceitfully taking Parisian women to a swamp in Louisiana, poker faced mischief, a mathematical code for winning games, to machines that can invent faces so real that nobody, not even other machines, can tell they are fake.
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Engineering Earth
A heroic bid for freedom by an enslaved couple in 19th century America precipitates great innovation and genius, culminating in people literally making the heavens open. With a process called cloud seeding. But can controlling the weather save us from climate catastrophe or are we playing god?
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Becoming Bionic

Wed, Nov 08, 2023
A discovery in a gold mine in the Ural Mountains leads to a vivid paint that revolutionizes art and will later stun the world of science. From dissecting stolen corpses and peering into microscopes, the secret structure of the brain and nervous system is exposed. Could this lead to a race of superhumans?
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The Mystery of Britannic

The Mystery of Britannic

"The Mystery of Britannic" - a historical docudrama that reveals a unique scenery on the terrible fate of the sister ship of the famous Titanic, whose final destiny was to be lost while at sea. The project presents the on-screen combination of re-enacted historical events intertwined with the scientific underwater documentary. The narration of the re-enacted story is being done by Nelly - who has departed her affluent family to serve as a newly recruited volunteer nurse on the hospital ship. Nelly shares her heart-piercing story of a courageous voyage aboard of the legendary Britannic - an ill-fated ocean liner, converted into the military hospital ship, bound for a shattering demise. One of the most famous shipwreck researchers, Richard Kohler, whose expertise and knowledge of the Britannic history developed into the life-long passion, helps the viewer to clearly apprehend the documentary materials. High-tech, deep-ocean submersibles and underwater research equipment allowed to capture the unique footage of a sleeping giant on the depths exceeding 100 meters. The combined efforts of researchers, scientists and SFX team made it possible to life-like witness the last minutes of the gigantic hospital ship. Together with the characters of the movie, the viewer will go through the actions of noble sacrifice, the story of love, the horrors of war, re-live the unspeakable tragedy happened a century ago and behold the long-gone wreck of the hospital ship in all her silent glory.

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