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Curated short documentaries and original Aeon productions exploring big ideas

Close-up of a yellowish amphibian embryo with black markings inside a transparent egg, on a dark background.

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Biology

Watch a single cell become a complete organism in six pulsing minutes of timelapse

6 minutes

A woman in a yellow saree standing among large piles of colourful clothes outdoors, with trees in the background.

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Beauty and aesthetics

This is the final resting place of your cast-off clothing

14 minutes

Man in a blue shirt and cap playing a cello in a forest setting.

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Ecology and environmental sciences

Yo-Yo Ma performs a work for cello in the woods, accompanied by a birdsong chorus

4 minutes

Digital artwork of an ancient Roman town, red roofs and columns, with Mount Vesuvius erupting in the background under a cloudy sky.

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The ancient world

From eruption to obliteration – the sights and sounds of 48 fateful hours in Pompeii

9 minutes

A map illustrating global human population distribution (1.2 billion) over time with significant historical events, created as an infographic.

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Demography and migration

How we became more than 7 billion – humanity’s population explosion, visualised

6 minutes

A CCTV image showing a man walking in a lobby area with double wooden doors, a signboard, a plant and seating visible.

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Death

In 2009, a man arrived in an Irish town with a plan to disappear forever

19 minutes

Photo of a diver in a blue suit exploring a deep underwater canyon with rugged, vertical rock formations on either side.

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Sports and games

Dances with whales: the ethereal underwater vistas of an elite freediving team

13 minutes

A man playing a string instrument with focus on his face and hands, with books and furniture in the background.

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Music

Music was ubiquitous in ancient Greece. Now we can hear how it actually sounded

16 minutes

Cartoon-style artwork depicting ancient Greek philosophers discussing the concept of beauty, with various speech bubbles and ladders.

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History of ideas

Why Socrates believed that sexual desire is the first step towards righteousness

2 minutes

A close-up of a rosy maple moth with yellow and pink furry body and wings, set against a pastel purple background.

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Biology

Witness the majesty of moths taking flight at 6,000 frames per second

5 minutes

Elderly man wearing glasses, a black hat and an orange cardigan, sitting indoors with a colourful stained glass window behind him.

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Death

An ageing philosopher returns to the essential question: ‘What is the point of it all?’

18 minutes

Abstract illustration of four seated human figures looking at their shadows on the wall in an orange room.

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Knowledge

Orson Welles’s psychedelic 1973 adaptation of Plato’s timeless allegory of the cave

9 minutes