Le clitoris
Women are lucky, they get to have the only organ in the human body dedicated exclusively for pleasure: the clitoris! In this humorous and instructive animated documentary, find out its unrecognized anatomy and its...
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1984 and the modern state of surveillance
Metaflix takes a look at George Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece ‘1984‘ and how modern surveillance has gone far beyond even his most frightening predictions. Zero Days is a documentary focused on Stuxnet, a piece of self-replicating computer...
Sous le donjon de Manu Le Malin
A night in 1997, Manu Le Malin (Emmanuel Dauchez), invited by the Astropolis crew, discovered the Castle of Keriolet, in Concarneau. He was only 26 years old. Twenty years later, the “enfant terrible” of...
Unit 731
Unit 731 (731部隊 Nana-san-ichi butai, Chinese: 731部队) was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)...
Kraftwerk and the electronic revolution
As innovative as they are influential, Kraftwerk‘s contribution to the development of electronic music since their formation in 1970 remains unsurpassed. Having inspired everyone from Bowie to Coldplay, Siouxsie to Radiohead, this bizarre collective...
The man who saw the number Pi in dreams
On January 16, 1913, a letter revealed a genius of mathematics. The missive came from Madras, a city – now known as Chennai – located in the south of India. The sender was a...
The science of Interstellar
Interstellar, from acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan, takes us on a fantastic voyage far beyond our solar system. Yet in The Science of Interstellar, Kip Thorne, the theoretical physicist who assisted Nolan on the scientific...
The Bridge
The Golden Gate Bridge‘s clearance above high water averages 67 m while its towers, at 227 m above the water, were the world’s tallest on a suspension bridge until 1998 when bridges in Denmark and Japan...
Viva Amiga
Viva Amiga: The true story of the best damned computer in the world. In a world of green on black, they dared to dream in color. 1985: An upstart team of Silicon Valley mavericks...
Conspiracy of Silence
Conspiracy of Silence is a powerful, disturbing Discovery Channel documentary revealing a child sex abuse ring that leads to the highest levels of United States government. Featuring intrepid investigator John DeCamp, a highly decorated...
