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  • Bombshell

    Aired January 6, 2026 | 85 min

    Bombshell explores how the U.S. manipulated the narrative about the impact of the WWII bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

  • Clearing the Air: The War on Smog

    Aired August 26, 2025 | 52 min

    The story of L.A.’s devastating smog problem and the creation of the EPA and the Clean Air Act.

  • Mr. Polaroid

    Aired May 19, 2025 | 52 min

    Before the iPhone, the Polaroid camera let people instantly chronicle their lives. Along with instant photo mania, its company culture became the model for Silicon Valley. Mr. Polaroid is the story of Edwin Land, the man behind the camera.

  • The Sun Queen

    Aired April 4, 2023 | 53 min

    Scientist Mária Telkes dedicated her career to harnessing the power of the sun. Though undercut and thwarted by her male colleagues, she persevered to design the first successfully solar-heated house in 1948 and held more than 20 patents.

  • The Sun Queen (español)

    Aired April 4, 2023 | 53 min

    La científica Mária Telkes dedicó su carrera a aprovechar la energía del sol. Menospreciada por sus colegas, todos hombres, perseveró; diseñó con éxito la primera casa con calefacción solar en 1948 y obtuvo más de 20 patentes.

  • The Codebreaker

    Aired April 29, 2023 | 53 min

    Discover the fascinating story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, the groundbreaking cryptanalyst who helped bring down gangsters and break up a Nazi spy ring in South America. Her work helped lay the foundation for modern codebreaking today.

  • Mr. Tornado

    Aired June 29, 2021 | 53 min

    Mr. Tornado is the remarkable story of the man whose groundbreaking work in research and applied science saved thousands of lives and helped Americans prepare for and respond to dangerous weather phenomena.

  • The Man Who Tried To Feed The World

    Aired December 21, 2022 | 53 min

    The Man Who Tried to Feed the World recounts the story of the man who would not only solve India’s famine problem but would go on to lead a “Green Revolution” of worldwide agriculture programs, saving countless lives.

  • Sealab

    Aired February 12, 2019 | 53 min

    In 1969 off the California coast, a US Navy crane carefully lowered a massive tubular structure into the waters. It was an audacious feat of engineering — a pressurized underwater habitat, designed for an elite group of divers to spend days or even months at a stretch living and working on the ocean floor.Sealab tells the little-known story of the daring program that tested the limits of human endurance and revolutionized undersea exploration.

  • The Eugenics Crusade

    Aired October 16, 2018 | 114 min

    The Eugenics Crusade tells the story of the unlikely –– and largely unknown –– campaign to breed a “better” American race, tracing the rise of the movement that turned the fledgling science of heredity into a powerful instrument of social control.

  • The Secret of Tuxedo Park

    Aired January 16, 2018 | 60 min

    Meet Wall Street tycoon Alfred Lee Loomis, who led a double life as a scientist and whose secret lab in upstate New York developed radar technology that altered the course of World War II.

  • The Race Underground

    Aired November 12, 2019 | 53 min

    Learn how Boston overcame a litany of challenges, the greed-driven interests of businessmen, and the great fears of its citizenry to create America’s first subway.