Release Date: 2004-10-20

Overview: Examines how politicians have used our fears to increase their power and control over society.

Rating: 8.073 (75 votes)

Release Date: 2022-10-13

Overview: What it felt like to live through the collapse of communism and democracy. A series of films by Adam Curtis.

Rating: 9.2 (13 votes)

Release Date: 2007-03-11

Overview: Individual freedom is the dream of our age. It's what our leaders promise to give us, it defines how we think of ourselves and, repeatedly, we have gone to war to impose freedom around the world. But if you step back and look at what freedom actually means for us today, it's a strange and limited kind of freedom.

Rating: 8 (33 votes)

Release Date: 2012-11-12

Overview: Oliver Stone's re-examination of under-reported events in American history.

Rating: 7.9 (21 votes)

Release Date: 1985-03-19

Overview: Documentary series about the effect of advances in science and technology on western society in its philosophical aspects.

Rating: 8.8 (10 votes)

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Overview: Detective Sean Flynn and scientist Kate Finch are the latest recruits of The Global Frequency, a secret rogue spy agency that handles threats to global security. They must find a man who's somehow been melting people with his mind.

Rating: 7 (3 votes)

Release Date: 2011-09-14

Overview: The stories of the biggest, deadliest and weirdest creatures ever to walk the Earth, using the latest fossil evidence and immersive computer graphics.

Rating: 8.2 (38 votes)

Release Date: 2010-09-07

Overview: It's 1986 - the year Maradona ends England's World Cup dreams in Mexico; the year Top Gun is the highest grossing film; the year over 3.4 million Brits are unemployed and the year Shaun is leaving school.

Rating: 7.7 (128 votes)

Release Date: 2014-04-11

Overview: Makoto 'Smile' Tsukimoto and his friend Yutaka 'Peco' Hoshino have been playing table tennis together since they were kids, but as they enter high school, they find that the game, and how they see it, has changed. Peco, brimming with confidence and energy, wants to be the best in the world, but the reserved Smile has little fighting spirit and doesn't want to sacrifice others' happiness just to win, despite his innate talent. As the two grow, and experience the ups and downs of the sport – and life – they try to figure out exactly who they really are and what drives them to play.

Rating: 8.193 (114 votes)

Release Date: 1984-12-26

Overview: Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden.

Rating: 8.3 (131 votes)

Release Date: 1980-09-28

Overview: Carl Sagan covers a wide range of scientific subjects, including the origin of life and a perspective of our place in the universe.

Rating: 8.6 (391 votes)

Release Date: 2017-11-14

Overview: Josh Futturman, a janitor by day/world-ranked gamer by night, is tasked with preventing the extinction of humanity after mysterious visitors from the future proclaim him the key to defeating the imminent super-race invasion.

Rating: 7.179 (522 votes)

Release Date: 1999-09-25

Overview: High school mathlete Lindsay Weir rebels and begins hanging out with a crowd of burnouts (the "freaks"), while her brother Sam Weir navigates a different part of the social universe with his nerdy friends (the "geeks").

Rating: 8.16 (799 votes)

Release Date: 2019-03-08

Overview: Tony had a perfect life. But after his wife Lisa suddenly dies, Tony changes. After contemplating taking his own life, he decides instead to live long enough to punish the world by saying and doing whatever he likes from now on.

Rating: 7.878 (942 votes)

Release Date: 2016-02-15

Overview: An English teacher travels back in time to prevent the Kennedy assassination, but discovers he is attached to the life he has made in a bygone era.

Rating: 7.768 (1577 votes)

Release Date: 2014-03-09

Overview: Famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson provides clarity for the vision of the cosmos as he voyages across the universe with never-before-told stories that delve into the scientific concepts of the laws of gravity and the origins of space and time.

Rating: 8.472 (1582 votes)

Release Date: 2009-09-17

Overview: Follow the lives of a group of students at what is possibly the world’s worst community college in the fictional locale of Greendale, Colorado.

Rating: 7.996 (1860 votes)

Release Date: 2002-06-02

Overview: Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.

Rating: 8.6 (2394 votes)

Release Date: 2015-06-24

Overview: A contemporary and culturally resonant drama about a young programmer, Elliot, who suffers from a debilitating anti-social disorder and decides that he can only connect to people by hacking them. He wields his skills as a weapon to protect the people that he cares about. Elliot will find himself in the intersection between a cybersecurity firm he works for and the underworld organizations that are recruiting him to bring down corporate America.

Rating: 8.2 (4897 votes)

Release Date: 1999-09-20

Overview: In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.

Rating: 7.936 (3979 votes)