How We Learned to Look Inside
Chapter 1 of How the Brain Works: How We Learned to Look Inside.
Full film · 2 hr 59 min
How the Brain Works
The complete documentary: signals, living tissue, memory, development, disease, interventions, brain mapping, and conscious experience.
Sources by episode
This full-film edition brings together the films below. Open an episode for its research references, visual sources, and music credits.
18 min
How a Nerve Cell Sends a Signal
Chapter 2 of How the Brain Works: How a Nerve Cell Sends a Signal.
The Living Tissue
Chapter 3 of How the Brain Works: The Living Tissue.
Circuits and an Organized Brain
Chapter 4 of How the Brain Works: Circuits and an Organized Brain.
Perceiving, Learning, and Remembering
Chapter 5 of How the Brain Works: Perceiving, Learning, and Remembering.
A Brain Changing Through Life
Chapter 6 of How the Brain Works: A Brain Changing Through Life.
When the System Changes
Chapter 7 of How the Brain Works: When the System Changes.
Medicines, Drugs, and Brain Activity
Chapter 8 of How the Brain Works: Medicines, Drugs, and Brain Activity.
Maps, Measurements, and Experiments
Chapter 9 of How the Brain Works: Maps, Measurements, and Experiments.
Conscious Experience
Chapter 10 of How the Brain Works: Conscious Experience.
Compilation credits
Editorial assembly, explanatory animations, chapter titles, and transitions: Documentary Heaven.
This compilation combines material from the component episodes credited above.
Episode-intro bronze strike and intra-section page-turn sound: channel production assets.
How this film was made
Created and editorially directed by Anders Lunde using a custom production system developed over six months. AI assists research, drafting, programming, and visual production; I review and edit the material and make the final editorial decisions. Narration uses text-to-speech. Visuals combine custom-built scientific animations, AI-generated reconstructions, and credited scientific imagery.
Generated reconstructions illustrate scientific interpretations. They are distinct from photographs, specimens, and measured data.
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