Life, this film argues, is inseparable from information: the coded instructions written into DNA, the molecular machinery that reads and executes those instructions inside every cell. The film sets the standard chemical-evolution account of life's origin, in which self-replicating molecules assemble through unguided natural processes, against the framework of information science, which treats coded information as something that in every other known context comes from a mind. Illustrations and graphics walk through the double helix and cellular processes to make the coding analogy concrete, and the film uses that analogy to press a specific question: can natural chemistry alone generate a functioning code, or does the presence of information in a cell point toward design? It presents this as an open scientific and philosophical dispute rather than settled fact, laying out where mainstream biology and information-theoretic arguments agree and where they diverge. A sequel, Programming of Life 2: Earth, continues the argument beyond the cell.