Genetics Movies

Young Alice Mason wishes to start a family, but because her own has been deemed "defective" by the state health authorities—her parents are...

Earth teems with a staggering variety of animals, including 9,000 kinds of birds, 28,000 types of fish, and more than 350,000 species of beetles....

Introduction to DNA by Frank Baxter and Bell Labs.

A dangerous idea has threatened the American Dream from the beginning - the belief that some groups and individuals are inherently superior to others...

When a wide-eyed 10-year-old girl visits her fathers insect laboratory, she receives an unorthodox education in genetics.

How did your body become the complicated, quirky, amazing machine it is today? Anatomist Neil Shubin uncovers the answers in this 3-part science...

World-famous geneticist Professor Hülsenbeck is a man of integrity who refuses to mix science and political gain. When his findings are being...

A geneticist wakes up from an accident with only fragments of his memory intact and is forced to relearn who he is via his twin brother. But as he...

If we compare ourselves with our genetically closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, we have few physical advantages. We are far weaker, cannot...

This educational film from 1970 traces the inheritance of traits such as sex, eye color, height, and weight, showing the role of chromosomes and...

The film tells a very personal story from two perspectives: our protagonist is both doctor and patient. As a patient, he has struggled with recurring...

Many geneticists and archaeologists have long surmised that human life began in Africa. Dr. Spencer Wells, one of a group of scientists studying the...

The development of nature is controlled by the genetic chain. Life goes on as the information code is stored in the gene chain. Every living being...

The made-for-cable documentary film The Real Eve is predicated on the theory that the human race can be traced to a common ancestor. The...

Can science help us understand these crimes?

Spared by cancer, diabetes and possibly Alzheimer’s, men and women of small stature are intriguing scientists that are trying to postpone...

Documentary about living with an addict and grappling with the genetic propensity of becoming one.

Directed by Pernille Rose Grønkjær.