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“We are as gods and might as well get good at it.” This is the audacious opening line of the Whole Earth Catalog, a compendium of wonderful tools compiled by counterculture legend Stewart Brand. A psychedelic experimenter, cyberspace pioneer, and environmentalist, he is now urging humanity to use our god-like powers to reframe our relationship with time and life itself. Today, Stewart is using biotech to resurrect extinct species. He and a team of scientists travel to Siberia to collect ancient DNA in an effort to make a hybrid Woolly Mammoth. Former allies in the environmental movement vow to stand in his way, but Stewart forges ahead in his life-long mission to conserve the whole earth.
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Forced to go legal, an outlaw pot farmer fights to preserve her way of life.
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Forced to go legal, an outlaw pot farmer fights to preserve her way of life.
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Facing the impending death of a loved one, a mother and son have a blackly comic encounter with a funeral home director.
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Bill Nye is retiring his kid show act in a bid to become more like his late professor, astronomer Carl Sagan. Sagan dreamed of launching a spacecraft that could revolutionize interplanetary exploration. Bill sets out to accomplish Sagan's mission, but he is pulled away when he is challenged by evolution and climate change contrarians to defend the scientific consensus. Can Bill show the world why science matters in a culture increasingly indifferent to evidence?
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A bio-hacker seeks to cure himself by swapping his microbiome with a donor's, a controversial and dangerous technique.
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A bio-hacker seeks to cure himself by swapping his microbiome with a donor's, a controversial and dangerous technique.
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Julio Saucé came to the U.S. from Ecuador 15 years ago searching for a better life. In the midst of a struggling to make ends meet and living undocumented in the U.S., Julio runs 80 miles a week training for the biggest race in the world, the New York City Marathon. After years of dedication, sacrifice, and sweat, Julio lines up to compete against the world's most elite runners in an attempt to be the fastest man in New York City.
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Two eccentric scientists struggle to create eternal youth in a world they call “blind to the tragedy of old age.” As they battle their own aging and suffer the losses of loved ones, their scientific journeys ultimately become personal.
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This short documentary film focuses on Joesy, a Fijian woman who works long hours providing live-in care for 95-year-old Haru Tsurumoto. Through intimate and quiet scenes, we explore Joesy's complex relationship with Haru. The two respect one another, because at different times, both have felt like outsiders in the U.S. - Joesy as an undocumented immigrant who fears she could be sent back to Fiji, and Haru as a Japanese American who was sent to the internment camps during World War II.
