Looks at how children in India get to school, and goes along with Indian students as they attend many different types of schools, in city classrooms, on mountaintops, and in buses, tents, and other unusual locations.
Safety Smart Science with Bill Nye the Science Guy explores the science of safety by going behind the scenes at Underwriters Laboratories and discovering how products that use electricity are fire-tested to ensure they meet safety standards. By explaining the science of fire, including the roles heat, fuel, and oxygen play, Bill demonstrates how fire can be helpful as well as destructive.
Explores the life of Jesus and the movement he started, challenging familiar assumptions and conventional notions about the origins of Christianity. Drawing upon new and sometimes controversial historical evidence and interviews with the nation's leading New Testament scholars, the series transports the viewer back two thousand years to the time and place where Jesus once lived and preached. Traces Jesus' life, focusing on the events that occurred after he died and on his first followers.
Discusses the fluidity of the definition of race, with demonstrations that challenge racial concepts, and input from sociologists, anthropologists, and other experts.
Video recording following Hollywood director Tom Shadyac and his film crew of four around the world to discover what is wrong with the world and how they can help to fix it. Presents interviews with religious leaders, scientists, and notable humanitarians.
Presents historical re-enactments that show the rise of Islamic power and faith during its first 1,000 years. Spans the time periods of the Prophet Muhammed's birth to the Ottoman Empire under Suleyman the Magnificent's reign. Explores Islamic art, artifacts, and architecture. Features interviews about early Islamic civilization.
Examines the twentieth century through the perspectives of social scientists whose statistical work measuring the lives of American citizens created successes, controversies, and failures. Includes interviews with Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Betty Friedan, Milton Freeman, and George Gallup Jr. among others.
Estranged spouses King Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine battle over which of their sons should ascend the English throne, while King Philip of France plots to make their arguments moot.
