Movies and TvShows featuring "field-research" theme.

Do animals have feelings? Empathy even? A documentary with some insights due to advancing technology.

Up the Sandbox is a comedy-drama film that follows the story of Margaret Reynolds, a history professor in New York City. As she navigates life as a wife, mother, and professional, she begins to question the traditional roles assigned to women. Through various humorous and thought-provoking situations, Margaret explores her own identity and challenges societal expectations.

Chasing Ice is a documentary that follows photographer James Balog as he sets out to capture the effects of climate change on polar ice caps. Using time-lapse photography, Balog documents the melting glaciers and the impact it has on the environment.

After a drilling rig off the coast of Miami triggers a dormant super-volcano, a divorced couple must put aside their differences and work together to save the city from a catastrophic eruption. They navigate a treacherous journey through lava-filled streets, a water park turned into a death trap, and a corporate cover-up that puts their lives at risk.

The end of the Franco-Prussian war (1870-71) saw the birth of the panoramas of war, huge circular paintings depicting scenes of war, cruelty and desolation that were contemplated by thousands of spectators, a kind of inmersive static newsreels, a mass media prior to the era of mass media, a virtual reality on canvas.

Born in London in 1934, Jane Goodall spent decades in Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park, studying the social and family structures of chimpanzees and helping to bring their ecological vulnerability into the public consciousness. She also founded and remains integral to the Jane Goodall Institute, which encourages environmental activism and stewardship among young people. In this program, the famous scientist reflects on her many years spent observing and learning about our primate cousins.

When a group of college students travel to a village called Niyang Rapik to conduct research for school, they thoughtlessly remove an item that desperately changes their fates and imperils the people of the village.

A humorous yet raw and authentic study of women’s reproductive labour across the marriage-market continuum, including, sex work, erotic dancing, surrogacy and egg donation, paid domestic work and unpaid domestic/care work across India, while also offering a comparison of the law’s highly differential regulation of these apparently disparate forms of female reproductive labour.

Explores the Pyramids of Giza as Egyptologists try to unravel the mysteries and decipher the clues behind these stone giants built over 4,500 years ago.

Around four million years ago, ape-like creatures discovered the advantages of walking upright. The starting point of a fascinating journey that, with many dead ends and setbacks, leads to modern man, who populates the whole world as a successful model of evolution. The impressive computer animations bring viewers closer to prehistoric and early man than ever before. The film also accompanies the world-renowned paleoanthropologist Friedemann Schrenk from the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt to hotspots of human history between South Africa and Europe. The film shows documentary scenes from the hotspots of human history as well as spectacular computer animations.

A team of archaeologists examines an ensemble of finely crafted gold and silver artifacts from a temple in Laos. The expedition takes the researchers from the vault where the treasure is now housed to ancient temples hidden deep in the jungle. The team makes spectacular discoveries at excavation sites scanned from the air...

Why did the Roman Empire, which dominated Europe and the Mediterranean for five centuries, inexorably weaken until it disappeared? Archaeologists, specialists in ancient pathologies and climate historians are now accumulating clues converging on the same factors: a powerful cooling and pandemics. A disease, whose symptoms described by the Greek physician Galen are reminiscent of those of smallpox, struck Rome in 167, soon devastating its army. At the same time, a sudden climatic disorder that was underway as far as Eurasia caused agricultural yields to plummet and led to the westward migration of the Huns. Plagued by economic and military difficulties, attacked from all sides by barbarian tribes, the Roman edifice gradually cracked.

Tornado Video Classics, Vol. 1 takes you on a thrilling journey through the world of tornadoes. Witness the destructive power of these natural disasters and the stunning beauty of their swirling winds. This documentary combines stunning slow-motion footage, time-lapse photography, and expert commentary to provide a comprehensive look at tornadoes. From storm chasers risking their lives to scientists studying these phenomena, Tornado Video Classics, Vol. 1 explores every aspect of tornadoes. Prepare to be amazed by the raw power of nature.

Twister 2: The Terror Continues follows a group of storm chasers as they document and study tornadoes. Through thrilling footage, slow-motion shots, and educational explanations, the film explores the power and devastation of these natural disasters.