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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.

    videoBiology

    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.

    videoBeauty 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.

    videoEcology 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.

    videoThe 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.

    videoDemography 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.

    videoDeath

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

    19 minutes

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

    videoMusic

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

    16 minutes

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

    videoSports and games

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

    13 minutes

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

    videoHistory 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.

    videoBiology

    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.

    videoDeath

    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.

    videoKnowledge

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

    9 minutes