Join best-selling author Steven Johnson to hear extraordinary stories behind remarkable ideas that made modern life possible, the unsung heroes who brought them about, and the unexpected and bizarre consequences each of these innovations triggered.

Cultural historians, collectors, and various celebrity obsessives, including Tom Hanks and John Mayer, launch us into the bittersweet moment when a beloved, but dying technology, the typewriter, faces extinction.

Presents the history, development, and decline of drive-in movie theaters. Features interviews and commentaries with actors, producers, critics, and others involved in the drive-in movie industry.

Niall Ferguson explores the reasons why the West once ruled the world and why its influence may decrease in the future.

A series of four documentaries that survey China through Chinese eyes to see how history has shaped them, and where the present is taking them. Deals with the governance of China; talks about the past and future for Chinese women; looks at China's environmental challenges; explores China's conflict between personal freedom and governance.

In this gripping documentary, filmmaker Nicholas de Pencier examines the complex global impact that the Internet has had on matters of free speech, privacy, and activism. Based on the book by Ron Deiber, it is the story of how the Internet is being controlled and manipulated by governments across the world in order to censor and monitor their citizens. As they battle for control of cyberspace, ideas of citizenship, privacy, and democracy are challenged...

For millennia, people have lived upon this planet without the need for electronic devices. No smart phones, tablets or gadgets running their homes. Some knew about the cycles of nature and the balance of life. Now, people live in an artificially created dream state that controls every aspect of their lives. The majority of people in the world have no idea how to hunt and gather, how to heal themselves, build a shelter and even communicate without...

Handmaid June finds herself once again in resistance to the dystopian regime of Gilead after opting not to flee to Canada with her baby at the end of the second season. Now, she will struggle to strike back against the regime despite overwhelming odds. This season there are startling reunions, betrayals and a journey to the terrifying heart of Gilead that will force all of the characters to take a stand, guided by one defiant prayer: Blessed be the...

"Forget water, oil and rare minerals--there is a new resource everyone wants: out time. Time Thieves reveals how companies monetize our time without our knowledge and how the social networks have, in their own words, become 'the new clockmaker.' Time Thieves is an eye-opening investigation into how our time became a currency and why 'time poverty' is on the rise. Who hasn't come across the situation where an airline has us printing our own boarding...

Each episode of this new documentary series focuses on a groundbreaking song pivotal to the evolution of American music and culture. From the early hip-hop battles to verses that sparked hope and inspired change, watch artists deconstruct their composition, revisit the impact the song had on them personally, and dissect the socio-economic and cultural conditions that inspired the landmark work and gave voice to a generation