Most likely a hallmark of your 5th-grade math class experience, POWERS OF TEN holds celebrity status amongst the [non-existent] educational film hall of fame. Described as "dealing with the relative size of things in the universe," the film shows the staggering effect of adding a simple "zero" to the end of a number, or what multiplying something by ten means or looks like. Viewing distances of micro to macro amounts, the audience travels from the molecules on a person's hand out to the far reaches of the universe, with each step's visual distance from the subject only one "zero" away from the previous. The massive zoom-out and subsequent zoom-in gives a simultaneous clarifying and mind-boggling account of scale and perspective. POWERS OF TEN was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for its cultural, historical, and aesthetic significance... and rightfully so, since it's nearly impossible to make it out of elementary schools even today without seeing it. Physicist Robbert Dijkgraaf stated, "If I wanted to show an alien how we view the world, I would show this movie."