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Mythbusters Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman conduct experiments to determine if there is any truth or scientific basis to the myth that plants grow better when people talk to them.

Mythbusters Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman test various myths related to bacteria, including whether or not a wet toothbrush will pick up bacteria from a nearby toilet if the brush is left in the bathroom.

When Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon a group of murdered men, a stash of heroin, and more than two million in cash, he makes a rash decision and takes the money, which soon puts himself and his young wife in danger as they are hunted by an assassin hired by the drug lord to retrieve the money.

Jack Crabb, a 121-year-old man who claims to be the only white survivor of Custer's Last Stand, regales a twentieth-century historian with an account of his life as an orphan adopted and raised by the Cheyenne, and the results of his forays into the world of white men.

Examines planetary orbits, circadian rhythms, time dilation, intergalactic wormholes, and other phenomena that quantify time, and discusses how the Maya relied on math, and rational numbers in the context of physics.

Follows eight talented teenagers on their way to stardom through four years at Manhattan's High School for the Performing Arts.

The son of a famous radical feminist spends his life struggling with his diverse personal relationships and with his ambition to be a writer.

Tom Stall becomes a local hero after killing two criminals intent on robbing his diner in small-town Indiana and leaving no witnesses, but Tom's past is called into question when the media hype attracts three mobsters who insist they have an old score to settle with the quiet family man.

Arthur Kirkland, an idealistic, young lawyer, rebels against the corrupt judicial system when he is forced to defend a detestable judge accused of rape.

Presents an introduction to elements known as alkaline-earth metals, found in the second group of the periodic table, and explaining their properties and uses and why they react with water so easily.

Presents an introduction to the elements known as metals, providing information on the properties and uses of aluminum, indium, tin, lead and other metals of the periodic table.

Presents an introduction to elements known as metalloids, explaining how they display similar characteristics but are not metals, including arsenic, boron, and others.

Rick Deckard, a twenty-first-century detective, searches for a group of rogue replicants--genetically engineered humans with fixed life spans--who have hijacked a space ship and come to Earth illegally, and finds his job complicated by his feelings for a woman who is not quite what she seems.

A violent teen named Alex is "rehabilitated" by the government in this satirical view of the future of the industrialized world.

Explains the scientific discovery that there is a second chemical code on top of regular DNA that has a large influence on health, and discusses how environment and lifestyle directly affect how genes are expressed.