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Curated short documentaries and original Aeon productions exploring big ideas

Photo of a woman in a floral headscarf with a man in the background against a rural autumn landscape under a clear sky.

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Home

Life moves slowly in a Romanian mountain village, shaped by care and the seasons

13 minutes

A white playroom with a boy in a tent and his mother reading to him holding stuffed animals, toys scattered around.

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Family life

A mother and child bond in an unusual prison visitation space in this poignant portrait

11 minutes

Weathered hands holding a small, carved stone tool with intricate details, set against a blurred background.

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Archaeology

At a prehistoric pigment mine, researchers glimpse our earliest moments in the Americas

25 minutes

Photo of an older man with white hair and beard in a cityscape with tall modern buildings in the background.

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Economics

A tour of New York’s gaudiest neighbourhood with the Marxist geographer David Harvey

13 minutes

Abstract painting of textured forms resembling fibres and foliage overlaid on an antique map background.

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Art

Defying classification, fantastical artworks reframe the racism of Carl Linnaeus

8 minutes

Futuristic digital artwork of Earth with two large transparent rings arching over it in space.

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Engineering

Building a prosperous future demands bold ideas. These are some of the boldest

40 minutes

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Film and visual culture

Space and time expand, contract and combust in this propulsive animation

5 minutes

Aerial photo of a large circular crater with a dark centre in a brown landscape, resembling an impact site.

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Environmental history

In Kazakhstan, ‘atomic lakes’ still scar the landscape decades after Soviet nuclear tests

13 minutes

Black and white photo of two girls in dresses touching foreheads while sitting on a rock in a field of daisies.

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Childhood and adolescence

‘Do worms cry?’ – and other questions collected from the mind of a curious child

4 minutes

Photo of a young woman in a pink hijab skateboarding on a ramp, with a building and a flag visible in the background.

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Sports and games

Young Palestinians find fleeting moments of freedom at a West Bank skate park

13 minutes

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Philosophy of mind

‘Am I not at least something?’ A surreal dive into Descartes’s Meditations

3 minutes

Black and white photo of a woman cycling down a street with a wicker basket on the bike. She wears a checked coat.

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History of science

Meet the Quaker pacifist who shattered British science’s highest glass ceilings

14 minutes