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Islam is one of the great monolithic world religions practiced today. Discover the Islamic culture through the daily life and rituals of Muslims around the world.

Narrated by Academy Award winner, Ben Kingsley, Religions of the World offers insight into the striking similarities and vast differences among the world's major religions as well as the unique perspective of its many individual cultures.

One of the world's oldest surviving religions, Judaism is both a theology and a way of life for over 12 million followers in the world today. The first religion to be founded upon the principle of monotheism, Judaism has survived despite persecution against its people throughout the ages.

Narrated by Academy Award winner, Ben Kingsley, Religions of the World offers insight into the striking similarities and vast differences among the world's major religions as well as the unique perspective of its many individual cultures.

Explores the causes and consequences of World War I. Featuring four live-action segments, the program explores a history of Czarist Russia and the birth of Communism in Russia, as well as the life on World War I battlefields and the story of the Red Baron. Rise of Nationalism explores the rise of nationalism in the early 20th century, specifically oppression in Czarist Russia.

Examines natural disasters throughout history, highlighting how some disasters have led to important developments for future generations. Discusses the Potato Famine and the resulting wave of immigration to the U.S. Also looks at how the Bubonic Plague contributed to the end of feudalism in Europe.

Part 1: Origins: Search for and discover the origin of today's animal life. Part 2: Life On the Move: When we think of animals, we think of movement. Surprisingly, the diverse and graceful ballet of movement may have started with a single group of creatures whose descendents were the first to harness the power of muscles and nerves.

Part 1: The First Hunter - The first animal to develop a head, eyes and a brain also pioneered a new way to survive: it would become Earth's first hunter. Dramatic new evidence points to an unlikely and oddly charismatic subject...the flatworm.

Part 1: The Conquerors: For hundreds of millions of years, animal life resided only in the oceans. And then, in one extraordinary event, something happened that enabled one group of animals to emerge from the sea. Follow scientists as they track how the shape of life transformed to create the animals that led the first successful land invasion and were the first to pioneer flight.

The Shape of Life tells the gripping and magnificent tale of the beginnings of all animal life.

Chronicles the historical development of the concept of an "element" from the ideas of ancient Greece through modern quantum theory. Viewers learn that scientists like Boyle, Dalton, and Lavoisier began to recognize patterns in the behavior of chemicals, they sought a unifying principle that would explain why different elements had different properties.

Join us as we investigate the links between chemistry and real life using the most successful arrangement of scientific data ever devised - the modern periodic table! This fascinating series reveals layer after layer of meaning contained in this simple table with dynamic graphics and exciting lab footage.

Students will see how the elements are arranged and underlying patterns are revealed. A dynamic tour of the groups that make up the table combined with lab footage allows viewers to see chemistry in action. Includes a look at some of the many patterns found in periods and groups of elements that combine to create the world around us.

Explores the connection between the atomic structure of an element and its properties. Students see how the behavior of the elements and the compounds they form is related to their valence shells -- and learn that anything that affects the valence shell will affect the chemical and physical properties of the element!

Includes 2 programs. Program 1: Seeing Is Believing (60 min.): Today we take for granted that the earth is round, that we orbit the sun. But these things are not obvious - our knowledge today is built on the foundation of hundreds of years of study. This program explores mathematics and how it revolutionized our view of the universe. Discusses Ptolemy, Newton, Einstein, and Hubble.