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Curated short documentaries and original Aeon productions exploring big ideas

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Values and beliefs

Why a single tree, uprooted in a typhoon, means so much to one man in Hanoi

7 minutes

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Consciousness and altered states

‘I want me back’ – after a head injury, Nick struggles with his altered reality

7 minutes

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Meaning and the good life

Why Orwell urged his readers to celebrate the spring, cynics be damned

11 minutes

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Making

On the Norwegian coast, a tree is transformed into a boat the old-fashioned way

6 minutes

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Animals and humans

One man’s quest to save an orphaned squirrel, as narrated by David Attenborough

14 minutes

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Computing and artificial intelligence

A future in which ‘artificial scientists’ make discoveries may not be far away

9 minutes

Painting of two armoured warriors confronting three hooded witches under a turbulent sky, with one warrior holding a spear.

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History

Hags, seductresses, feminist icons – how gender dynamics manifest in witches

13 minutes

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Wellbeing

Children of the Rwandan genocide face a unique stigma 30 years later

20 minutes

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Earth science and climate

Images carved into film form a haunting elegy for a disappearing slice of Earth

3 minutes

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Meaning and the good life

Leading 1950s thinkers on the search for happiness in trying times

29 minutes

Microscopic image showing a close-up view of a butterfly’s proboscis covered with vibrant pink and orange structures.

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Biology

Butterflies become unrecognisable landscapes when viewed under electron microscopes

4 minutes

Photo of two boys sitting in a dilapidated room surrounded by debris with a view of an overgrown outside through a broken wall.

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War and peace

Two Ukrainian boys’ summer unfolds just miles from the frontlines

22 minutes