Armchair Inventions

An animation shown on Sex Toons.

101 Inventions That Changed The World

It starts with a spark, but some ideas catch fire and in the process change the world. Necessity is the mother of invention--from darkness, man found light (the candle) and from even the farthest distances we can still f

Cavemen - Inventions in History

A short film released by Mapo Proyectos.

Black Inventions: Shaping the Modern World

Black Inventions: Shaping the Modern World is an inspiring documentary that explores the stories of seven African American innovators whose groundbreaking inventions helped shape the modern world and continue to influenc

Maria's Inventions

Maria's favourite pastime is machine inventing. She can't stay still. She's always thinking of something to build. She's invented so much that one day she just couldn't invent more.

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Greatest Inventions: Seven Big Inventions That Changed Our World

The Science Museum, housing 35,000 items, is the biggest invention time capsule in the world. These big inventions are: the TV, presented by Sir Trevor McDonald; penicillin, shown by Angela Rippon; the fridge, fronted by

Just The Facts: Inventions That Changed Our Lives - The Wonder Of Electricity

The modern world never sleeps, but it still dreams. It's these nighttime visions that electrify our lives when they become a reality. These everyday electrical products bring the world's best entertainers into the room a

Just the Facts: Inventions That Changed Our Lives - Inventions and Innovations

"Why?" Learn how these inventors turned their theories into tangible proof. In doing so, they changed forever the way people live, work and play. Inventions and Innovations explains how the atom is the basic building blo

Famous Inventors and Inventions

Inventors and their wondrous invention have shaped society since the beginning of time, always searching for ways to make life easier, better, and more convenient. With each new discovery, inventors throughout the ages h

Michel Bras: Inventing Cuisine

Made in France, English subtitled. In-depth portraits of internationally acclaimed chefs featuring exclusive interviews. Michel Bras is one of France's greatest cooks, obtaining his third star in 2000 and rated #7 on the

Michel Troisgros: Inventing Cuisine

Well before many chefs of his generation, Michel Troisgros hit on culinary practice and culture which today lie at the heart of world gastronomy. Refusing to bend to fashion, his cuisine is unrestrained and personal, bri

Caramuru: Brazil Reinvented

Diogo Álvares, a Portuguese map illustrator, reaches the Brazilian coast, after his caravel sinks. He is saved by the Indian chief Itaparica and his two daughters, Paraguaçu and Moema. They call him Caramuru and together

Hugo

Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken

Cinema Finds Its Voice

The story of how sound was paired with images in early years of cinema; offering an in-depth look at the people behind-the-scenes and the technological innovations that culminated in Warner Brothers' ground breaking film

Arthur - Die Erfindung eines Königs

Breakout

Zack Hadley has invented a new, environmental friendly, super-charged battery capable of powering cars. But the oil companies are none too pleased by his genius and soon set out to kidnap Zack's son, Joe. What they don't

The Fabulous World of Jules Verne

As the world progresses into the industrial age, a professor studying the "nature of pure matter" is spirited away by a would-be dictator and connived into building a super-bomb, as a young reporter and a girl rescued f

Caligari: When Horror Came to Cinema

On February 26, 1920, Robert Wiene's world-famous film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari premiered at the Marmorhaus in Berlin. To this day, it is considered a manifesto of German expressionism; a legend of cinema and a key wo

Attenborough's Wonder of Eggs

David Attenborough has a passion for birds' eggs. These remarkable structures nurture new life, protecting it from the outside world at the same time as allowing it to breathe. They are strong enough to withstand the ful