Release Date: 2011-05-23

Overview: We have been colonised by the machines we have built. Although we don't realise it, the way we see everything in the world today is through the eyes of the computers.

Rating: 8.3 (48 votes)

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: 2000-03-26

Overview: Alain de Botton's psychobabble-free self-help course for the philosophically minded.

Rating: 7.2 (8 votes)

Release Date: 2008-07-17

Overview: When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the outlawed but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion — a disbanded group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers — Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future.

Rating: 7.9 (51 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: 2018-02-11

Overview: A provocative and darkly comic meditation on the disparate forces polarizing present-day American culture, as experienced by the members of a progressive multi-ethnic family — a philosophy professor and his wife, their adopted children from Vietnam, Liberia and Colombia and their sole biological child — and a contemporary Muslim family, headed by a psychiatrist who is treating one of their children.

Rating: 6.74 (50 votes)

Release Date: 2007-11-04

Overview: Follows the humorous musings of an itinerant humanoid pseudo-shaman and spiritual seeker named Xavier.

Rating: 8.5 (38 votes)

Release Date: 2004-05-02

Overview: Dr. Samantha Hill is an earthquake research scientist at a noted university in Washington State. Her alternative theories and her take-charge attitude cause friction with her peers. When the controversial Dr. Hill is ultimately put in charge, she is effectively entrusted with saving the entire population of the West Coast from a series of earthquakes that threaten to permanently fracture the West Coast from the rest of North America.

Rating: 6.5 (66 votes)

Release Date: 2013-10-29

Overview: Tom Mathias comes to Aberystwyth having abandoned his life in London. He's a brilliant but troubled man. Despite his faults he is an excellent detective, who knows that the key to solving the crime lies not in where you look for truth, but how you look.

Rating: 7.275 (91 votes)

Release Date: 1995-11-19

Overview: A documentary series on the career of The Beatles.

Rating: 8.089 (79 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: 2017-08-25

Overview: Pot activist Ruth Whitefeather Feldman runs a medical marijuana dispensary while encouraging her loyal patients to chill out and enjoy the high life.

Rating: 6.113 (115 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: 2009-04-21

Overview: Life After People is a television series on which scientists, structural engineers, and other experts speculate about what might become of Earth should humanity instantly disappear. The featured experts also talk about the impact of human extinction on the environment, and the vestiges of civilization thus left behind.

Rating: 7.234 (139 votes)

Release Date: 1999-10-04

Overview: Combining fact and informed speculation with cutting-edge computer graphics and animatronics effects, the series set out to create the most accurate portrayal of prehistoric animals ever seen on the screen.

Rating: 8.188 (165 votes)

Release Date: 2020-05-09

Overview: The parallel lives of identical twin brothers Dominick and Thomas Birdsey in an epic story of betrayal, sacrifice and forgiveness set against the backdrop of 20th century America.

Rating: 7.568 (241 votes)

Release Date: 2019-09-06

Overview: In the 1960s, Israeli clerk-turned-secret agent Eli Cohen goes deep undercover inside Syria on a perilous, years-long mission to spy for Mossad.

Rating: 7.417 (278 votes)

Release Date: 2012-04-22

Overview: A look into American politics, revolving around former Senator Selina Meyer who finds being Vice President of the United States is nothing like she expected and everything everyone ever warned her about.

Rating: 7.421 (468 votes)

Release Date: 2002-10-01

Overview: In the future when technological enhancements and robotics are a way of life, Major Motoko Kusanagi and Section 9 take care of the jobs that are too difficult for the police. Section 9 employs hackers, sharpshooters, detectives and cyborgs all in an effort to thwart cyber criminals and their plans to attack the innocent.

Rating: 8.219 (395 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)