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Curated short documentaries and original Aeon productions exploring big ideas

Illustration of two people observing ants on a forest floor with a textured tree background.

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Family life

One family’s harrowing escape from postwar Vietnam, told in a poignant metaphor

10 minutes

A beach with a white S U V, chairs and a bird in the foreground, and a rocket on a launch pad in the background.

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Fairness and equality

Visit the small Texas community that lives in the shadow of SpaceX launches

14 minutes

Close-up photo of a textured surface with vibrant purple, orange and blue abstract patterns.

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Film and visual culture

Our world has very different contours when a millimetre is blown up to a full screen

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Black and white photo of British and German First World War soldiers wearing winter uniforms and hats, one with a cigarette, looking at the camera.

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War and peace

A frontline soldier’s moving account of the fabled ‘Christmas truce’ of 1914

12 minutes

Cartoon of three surgeons wearing scrubs and masks performing surgery on a patient, with surgical lights overhead.

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Bioethics

What a 1970 experiment reveals about the possibility and perils of ‘head transplants’

6 minutes

A photo of a printshop workbench featuring a newspaper layout, metal type blocks, and tools.

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History of technology

Replicating Shakespearean-era printing brings its own dramas and comedy

19 minutes

A man with a long beard wearing glasses holding a net against a backdrop of a grassy field and cloudy sky.

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Animals and humans

The wild tale of a young animal keeper, an angry tiger and a torn circle net

10 minutes

A woman on a sofa injecting her abdomen surrounded by stuffed toys on a shelf.

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Technology and the self

Why single Chinese women are freezing their eggs in California

24 minutes

Abstract painting with geometric shapes, lines and circles in various colours on a beige background.

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Beauty and aesthetics

Can you see music in this painting? How synaesthesia fuelled Kandinsky’s art

10 minutes

Painting of Roman soldiers in red carrying shields, forming a testudo (tortoise) formation during battle, viewed from the side.

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The ancient world

Petty squabbles and bloody battles – the life of an ancient Roman soldier

18 minutes

Young girls dressed in riot police helmets and gear standing outdoors in the rain.

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Childhood and adolescence

The police camp where tween girls enter a sisterhood of law and order

28 minutes

Illustration of a tattooed man from behind looking at a starry sky with trees silhouetted in the foreground.

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Astronomy

The remarkable innovations inspired by our need to know the night sky

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