Movies: Discovery

As Christmas nears, a young orphan, haunted by his father's suicide, embarks on a soul-searching journey. Guided by hidden memories, he forms a bond with a kindred spirit, sparking a quest for healing and self-discovery....

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The death of a young girl's cat provokes a self-discovery journey of what it means to accept the inevitability of change....

By the end of the Ice Age - only ten thousand years ago - many great mammals had died out. The woolly mammoth, the dire wolf, the saber-tooth cat and others disappeared as a result of severe climatic changes that engulfed the planet. And yet other an...

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Adelina, going for the first time to a museum, discovers her artistic side....

An old widower, Jasper, routinely makes coffee in two mugs and picks up trash around his community. Some of his more interesting finds speckle his home. His neighbors mostly disregard him. On one of his regular hunts, he chances upon an envelope. To ...

A troubled loner longing for purpose finds it when a phone call gone wrong puts him on the scent of a mysterious woman’s murder....

Move over, King Tut: There's a new pharaoh on the scene. A team of top archaeologists and forensics experts revisits the story of Hatshepsut, the woman who snatched the throne dressed as a man and declared herself ruler. Despite her long and prospero...

The film presents compelling evidence that Altlantis wasn't so far away after all, but what it omits is just as compelling. Although Plato’s account of Atlantian masonry, consisting of red, white and black stones, was a visually perfect match for the...

Documentary of an underwater archaeological expedition led by French explorer Franck Goddio that explores the sunken ancient city of Alexandria, Egypt, where Cleopatra made her home over 2,000 years ago. The underwater exploration team uses advanced ...

The complex engineering challenges that make re-entry into the earth's atmosphere so dangerous. Scientists have labored for years to bring a crew safely home in what is essentially a meteorite, wrapped in a cocoon of fire, hurtling towards earth six ...

A look back at the origins of rocket science and forward to the cutting edge technology of reusable rockets and shuttles. Using computer animation, the program also explores the future of space travel that may some day carry commercial passengers or ...

Self-discovery and introspection...

A little girl finds herself in a completely dark room, except for the spotlight that follows her. Parts of the room lit up when she interacts and keeps in touch with certain objects. With each part of the room uncovering, she starts learning about th...

Under a black sky a stretch of highway cuts deep into the forest. Bobby's car careens out of control and comes to a stop on the shoulder. He gets out to replace a tire when he hears the desperate cry of a girl out in the woods. Despite the shivering ...

In June 1942, Japanese bombers tried to level the American presence on Midway Island in a bid to steam unimpeded toward the U.S. mainland. Yet the U.S. Navy had two aces up its sleeve: advance knowledge of Japanese plans and a dive-bomber that was ne...

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short looks at how a few specific inventions made a major contribution to the U.S. war effort....

An old man and his sidekick attempt to capture footage of a mysterious creature to surpass their young neighbours' popularity on social networks....

Nikola is about to join his girlfriend at her father’s house for a summer holiday, but after wearing makeup for the very first time, he begins a startling and life-changing process of self-discovery....