Science & Technology Programs

Series

Frontiers of Construction Every "Frontiers Of Construction" episode focuses on a single engineering specialty, like blasting, underwater construction, forensic engineering, robotics and virtual engineering. Each episode sees the emerging world of that specialty through the eyes of a world leader, a pioneer in that field - people like Bill Bauer, who travels the world blowing things up; Frank Gehry, architect of some of the world's most revolutionary new buildings; Michael Oube, the designer behind the magic of Cirque de Soleil; Todd Dalland, who is developing lightweight fabric skyscrapers ... visionaries whose courage and daring have opened up new worlds for all of us. Each episode gives the viewer an overview of that specialty, a history of where it has been, as well as where it is going. It introduces the visionaries of the past and their grand designs for our future - sometimes mad, sometimes utopian, and sometimes surprisingly realistic.

Light: More Than Meets the Eye This two-part series considers the fierce, wondrous power we call light. Featuring interviews with the world's leading scientists and thinkers, eye-popping displays of their fantastic innovations, historical re-enactments, and archival footage, these documentaries illuminate a vast, extended family of energies (a.k.a. light) that make up the forces at the very heart of our universe.

Rough Science Our scientists-without-laboratories are back and they're on top of the world! They're based high up in the peaks of Colorado in an old ore-processing mill in the spectacular Rocky Mountains. Their first task will be to make the mill safe and habitable, finding a way to provide power and light using only the natural resources around them. In later episodes they'll be making a fire extinguisher to keep themselves safe and cleaning up the environment after a century of pollution. They'll get to know this peak very well while determining how high it is and how much it weighs. At an altitude of 3000m, they face physical as well as scientific obstacles - it's the highest Rough Science ever!

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Individual Documentaries