This is Brain Awareness Week! Founded by the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives and the European Dana Alliance for the Brain, Brain Awareness week is an opportunity to discover and explore contemporary developments in neuroscience and cognitive science. Use this week to educate your students and patrons on both the fascinating functions of the human brain and the role that brain science plays in our daily lives.

Featured below are a selection of documentaries from the Bullfrog Films catalog that explore the science of the brain and the scientists, researchers and psychologists who are contributing to our growing body of knowledge about the human brain.

These films are available on DVD with public performance rights for school and library purchase or rental from Bullfrog Films. Academic streaming can be licensed from Docuseek. Campus and community groups can book in-person or virtual group screenings with Bullfrog Communities.
In these times of existential crisis, there has been an explosion of research into consciousness. After four centuries of silence, scientists are confronting the “Big Questions,” cutting a window into a realm previously held tight by philosophy and religion: What is consciousness? Is it in all living beings? What happens when we die? Why do we seem to be hardwired for mystical experience? Aware follows six brilliant researchers, approaching the greatest of all mysteries from radically different perspectives, from within and without: through high-tech brain research and Eastern meditation, by scientifically exploring inner space through psychedelic substances and by investigating the consciousness of plants.
Dr. Iain McGilchrist is a soft-spoken British psychiatrist and neuroscientist with a theory. He believes that one half of our brain—the left hemisphere—is slowly taking power, and that we in the Western world are simultaneously feeding its ambitions. This half of the brain is proficient at creating technologies, procedures and organizational systems, but cannot understand the impacts of these on the people and the world around it. The Divided Brain is a mind-altering odyssey about one man’s quest to prove a growing imbalance in our brains, and to help us understand how this makes us increasingly unable to grapple with critical economic, environmental and social issues; ones that shape our very future as a species.
My Love Affair with the Brain is a loving portrait of the late Dr. Marian Diamond, a popular college lecturer and one of the founders of modern neuroscience whose passion for the sciences serves as an inspirational example for girls and young women pursuing a career in the STEM fields. The film follows Dr. Diamond over a 5-year period and introduces the viewer to both her many scientific accomplishments and the warm, funny, and thoroughly charming woman herself, who describes her 60-year career researching the human brain as "pure joy.”
Whether you are an Inuit hunter, a foraging insect, or just someone out for a stroll, your brain is performing one of its most fundamental services -- navigation. Where Am I? explores the navigational skills we share with animals – and some we wish we had. Experts from around the world explain why some of us are naturally good at finding our way, while others are not. It’s all about using both memory and imagination: remembering where we’ve been and imagining where we’re going. This compelling look at wayfinding will change the way you think about finding your way around.
Celebrated anthropologist, philosopher, author, naturalist and systems theorist Gregory Bateson was a man who studied the interrelationships of the complex systems we live in with scientific rigor and enormous integrity. His theories, such as "the double bind" and "the pattern which connects", continue to impact the fields of anthropology, psychiatry, information science, cybernetics, urban planning, biology, and ecology, challenging people to think in new ways. An Ecology of Mind is a loving portrait of Bateson directed by his youngest daughter, Nora, and presents his thinking from a richly personal perspective.
All films are available on DVD with public performance rights for school and library purchase or rental. Academic streaming can be licensed from Docuseek. Campus and community groups interested in hosting a community screening can book now through Bullfrog Communities.

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Bullfrog Films is the oldest and largest publisher of documentary films about the environment in the United States. We define "environment" broadly, and our catalog includes programs on disability studies, energy, agriculture, performing arts, women's studies, genetics, social psychology, cultural anthropology, community regeneration, economics, ethics, and conflict resolution.