Absolute Zero: The Conquest of Cold

Throughout history, scientists such as Francis Bacon, Robert Boyle, Michael Faraday and Antoinne Lavoisier attempted to harness the effects of the ultimate limit of cold, known as Absolute Zero. From the father of air conditioning, a 17th Century alchemist who turned summer into winter inside the Great Hall of Westminster, to frozen food pioneer Clarence Birdseye, this film traces the progress of the scientists, innovators and visionaries who enabled us to conquer the cold.