Silver River

Documentaries for the curious

Could the Halo ring actually be built? How did we prove black holes are real?

Silver River Studios makes cinematic documentaries about the science inside science fiction — and the detective stories behind humanity’s greatest discoveries. Every film makes one promise: you’ll leave knowing something true about the universe, and how we know it.

The ancient astronomers of China looked up at the Milky Way and named it 银河 — the Silver River. Every story we tell flows from it.