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Curated short documentaries and original Aeon productions exploring big ideas

Black and white photo of a teenage girl with dark hair smoking, eyes closed, with a blurred outdoor background.

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Meaning and the good life

Wander through the English countryside with two teens trying to make sense of the world

10 minutes

A DNA double helix with overlapping images: lined pages, the printed pages of an old book, and a painted portrait of a woman that is the Mona Lisa, all on a black background.

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Computing and artificial intelligence

The ‘cloud’ requires heaps of energy to stay aloft. Could synthetic DNA be the answer?

12 minutes

Close-up of a man smiling and interacting closely with a puppet of an old man wearing a black beret, both faces nearly touching.

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Art

A puppeteer makes sense of an overwhelming world by shrinking it down to size

5 minutes

Photo of a street sign reading ‘Gipsy Lane’, mounted on a brick wall with green foliage behind, and a car in the background.

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History

There are fragments of Romani Gypsy history all over the UK – if one knows where to look

3 minutes

Close-up photo of butterfly wing scales in shades of orange, pink, white and black arranged in a mosaic-like pattern.

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Biology

Brilliant dots of colour form exquisite patterns in this close-up of butterfly wings

3 minutes

A child peeking over the back of a horse in a grassy open field with a distant horizon and a slightly cloudy sky.

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Anthropology

Does Mogi’s future lie with her horses on the Mongolian steppe, or in the city?

16 minutes

A man and a woman smiling with their hands on the shoulders of a Neanderthal figure with long hair and a beard but in modern clothes.

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Genetics

Why it took a century to work out that humans interbred with Neanderthals

22 minutes

A colourful mural depicting a Mexican American family, a Mexican American woman being tackled by a white policeman, and a stadium resembling a U F O descending from the sky.

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Art

The sprawling mural that depicts an unflinching people’s history of Los Angeles

7 minutes

A person at night placing an object in a large bin labelled ‘TRASH ONLY’ on an empty street lit by streetlights.

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Personality

A ‘dumpster archeologist’ reconstructs strangers’ stories via what they’ve discarded

14 minutes

A woman in a purple jumper, named María Victoria Maldonado, picking berries in a lush green forest.

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Human rights and justice

An unarmed Indigenous group aims to protect their native lands in this stirring portrait

15 minutes

Black-and-white drawing of labourers working in a warehouse, overlaid with the text “Marks of weakness, marks of woe” in yellow.

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Art

In his poem ‘London’, William Blake crafted a bleak vision of the city he loved

9 minutes

Illustration of four adult giraffes, and a young one lying down, with Mount Kilimanjaro and acacia trees in the background.

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Ageing and death

We’re not the only animals that appear to grieve. What are the implications?

6 minutes