Genetics Movies

The made-for-cable documentary film The Real Eve is predicated on the theory that the human race can be traced to a common ancestor. The...

The documentary depicts the birth of eugenics - a pseudo-science created in the 19th century that propounded the theory of perfecting the human race....

Can science help us understand these crimes?

A dangerous idea has threatened the American Dream from the beginning - the belief that some groups and individuals are inherently superior to others...

Documentary about living with an addict and grappling with the genetic propensity of becoming one.

Documentary accompanies scientists in their search for the common ancestors of all humans.

In a television first, Fat Family Tree sets out to prove that unlocking the secrets of a fat family’s genes can help provide the answer to...

Many geneticists and archaeologists have long surmised that human life began in Africa. Dr. Spencer Wells, one of a group of scientists studying the...

Lucie was born with a protruding ear that she got from her mother. In this documentary she tries to find answers in her fathers' features.

Scientists have long puzzled over the different fates of identical twins: both have the same genes, yet only one may develop a serious disease like...

This animated film was made by RIKEN Omics Science Center for the "Beyond DNA" exhibition at the National Science Museum of Japan. The filmmakers...

This educational film from 1970 traces the inheritance of traits such as sex, eye color, height, and weight, showing the role of chromosomes and...