War of the Worlds is truly the mother of all space invasions: a rare combination of chills, thrills and great literature.

Arthur Conan Doyle’s rollicking adventure tale follows a scientific jungle expedition back into the time of dinosaurs and cavemen.

Arcadia examines the relationship between past and present, order and disorder, and the certainty of knowledge through the history of one English country estate.

The story of Alan Turing, an early pioneer in computer science, and his struggle to live authentically while serving his country.

A teenage misfit is coming of age in the comforting glow of late-night horror movies. But when reality begins to intrude on his fantasy world, he realizes that hiding in the closet is no longer an option.

A respected physician must choose between the lives of two terminally ill men in George Bernard Shaw’s sharp-tongued satire of the medical profession.

A suburban family undergoes a spiritual crisis following the September 11th attacks, in this wry meditation on the ultimate destiny of humankind.

In 1914, quarry workers in Piltdown, England, discover the fragmented skull of an early human previously unknown to scientists. But is the skull really the “missing link”?

The Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 comes to life as William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow square off over human evolution and the divide between faith and science.

Melanie Laidlaw is a reproductive scientist who has just pioneered a new method of fertilization. But will her hunger for motherhood undermine her objectivity?

Bertolt Brecht’s dramatic portrait of Galileo Galilei: the very archetype of the struggle between science and faith.

A mother struggles with her daughter Lucy’s autism… and we hear Lucy’s own inner efforts to process the world around her.

Moving Bodies tells the story of Richard Feynman, one of the towering figures of 20th-century physics.

The air is thick with Freud and sex as eminent psychoanalyst Melanie Klein comes roaring to life in a 1930s drawing room.

Johann Mobius, the world’s greatest physicist, is locked away in a madhouse along with two other scientists. But are they actually mad … or are they playing a murdererous game with the world at stake?

The science of genetics explains how you inherit eye color, the shape of your hairline, or even the ability to roll your tongue. But can a parent pass along a trait for genius that’s paired with mental illness?

The first H-Bomb detonates and the proud father is Edward Teller. But he’s on a collision course with Robert Oppenheimer, head of the team that created the atom bomb.

A brilliant young biogeneticist’s research brings her into ideological conflict with her mother, Claire, who runs a foundation dedicated to melanin science.

A young inventor conceives of a medium that might inspire world peace … but her forecast proves to be far from perfect.

A young biochemist believes he may have discovered the cure for cancer … only to find himself at odds with his data and his conscience.