Chris Durrance

As scientists learn to read the genetic code, they grapple with the dangers inherent in increasingly sophisticated and easily available methods of intervening in the very essence of what makes us human, our DNA.

THE GENE: AN INTIMATE HISTORY interweaves the story of the revolution in modern genetic science with stories from the frontlines of medicine, featuring patients, and researchers racing to cure the errors in their DNA that afflict them.

Gerrymandering has become an immensely powerful weapon of partisan advantage, creating an unresponsive and unaccountable government. But ahead of the 2020 elections and a new round of redistricting, voters are fighting back. With exclusive access to influential, citizen-led activist groups, as well as the legal team that brought the most important voting rights case in a generation to the Supreme Court, the film chronicles the civic grit that is turning...