Steven Pinker
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Filmography
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Data Mining the Deceased: Ancestry and the Business of Family
(2018)The family history business is booming. English Professor Julia Creet explores the bigger picture behind the ancestry industry. This documentary explores what may be the largest historical enterprise in the world, and one of the largest data-mining operations, and how it is driven by big religion, big technology and big business.

Humans and Other Animals
(2024)As we discover that other animals are more like us than we thought possible, a growing movement is exposing the secretive global industries that use animals in bizarre and disturbing ways...

Creating Freedom: The Lottery of Birth
(2013)From birth onwards, our minds are a familial and cultural battleground whose outcome determines not only who we become, but the society we create.

Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World
(2021)Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World traces a life journey that started with an introduction to the Harlem Library and culminated at the esteemed Hoover Institution. The story of one of this era's greatest authors on race, history, and economics is told by The Wall Street Journal's Jason Riley.
Nature and Us: A History Through Art
In this groundbreaking arts documentary, BBC Select explores the often complex relationship that human beings have with the natural world. Taking a unique approach, Dr James Fox uses art as evidence of our developing attitudes towards nature across the globe and throughout history, from prehistory to the present. Can culture help to explain our evolving relationship with nature?