Name: The Gene: An Intimate History
Released: 2020-04-07T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: David Costabile

Available on DocPlay, Prime Video

A look at the history of the basic building block of life and efforts by scientists to decipher more precisely how genes operate.

Documentary · 2020 · 1 hr 54 min

Starring David Costabile

Director Chris Durrance , Jack Youngelson

EPISODE 1

Part 1: Dawn of the Modern Age of Genetics

Science and personal stories come together to reveal the history of the human genome; patients with rare genetic diseases and their doctors race against time to discover cures.

52 min · 7 Apr 2020
EPISODE 2

The Gene: An Intimate History

Geneticists wrestle with moral implications of new technologies that offer both promise and peril; a young scientist with spinal muscular atrophy researches a treatment for her condition.

51 min · 14 Apr 2020
EPISODE 101

Part One

Part One interweaves the present-day story of the Rosens, a young family on an odyssey to find a cure for their four-year old daughter’s rare genetic disease, with stories of the exciting discoveries of the early pioneers in genetics — Gregor Mendel, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Francis Crick and James Watson.

53 min · 1 Jan 2020
EPISODE 102

Part Two

Part Two continues to interweave stories of patients suffering from rare genetic diseases and the leading researchers racing to identify and treat, even cure, the errors in their DNA that afflict them.

54 min · 1 Jan 2020
EPISODE 103

Part Three

The third part of the four-hour series The Gene: An Intimate History begins with the story of the signature scientific achievement of our time: the mapping of the human genome.

54 min · 1 Jan 2020
EPISODE 104

Part Four

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.

54 min · 1 Jan 2020