Powers of Ten™ (1977)
Eames Office9.48M views
Charles and Ray Eames's classic short film zooming out and in by powers of ten, from a picnic to the edge of the known universe and down to a proton.
Lectures & Documentaries
63,459 videos · Full university lectures and long-form documentaries.
AT&T Archives: The UNIX Operating System
AT&T Tech Channel2.23M views
The 1982 Bell Labs film on the UNIX system, with Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan explaining pipes, tools and the shell.
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Decoding the Universe: Quantum | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS
NOVA PBS Official8.96M views
NOVA's documentary on quantum mechanics: superposition, entanglement and the experiments that established them, with working physicists.
54:10When the Earth Swallows You Whole | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS
NOVA PBS Official604K views
How sinkholes form: karst geology, groundwater and the human activities that trigger collapses.
The Fallen of World War II
Neil Halloran15M views
Neil Halloran's animated, data-driven documentary on the human cost of World War II and the long-term trend in war deaths.
53:56Egypt's Tombs of Amun | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS
NOVA PBS Official290K views
Excavating tombs of the priests of Amun in Egypt and what they reveal about Theban society.
53:32Cat Tales | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS
NOVA PBS Official6.19M views
How cats were domesticated and how their senses and behaviour work, from genetics and archaeology.
AlphaGo - The Movie | Full award-winning documentary
Google DeepMind38.5M views
The full feature documentary on DeepMind's AlphaGo and its 2016 match against Lee Sedol, including how the system was built and tested.
53:50Evolution: Brain Power | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS
NOVA PBS Official175K views
How the human brain evolved: fossil and genetic evidence for the growth of our brains.
53:55Stone Age Temple Mystery | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS
NOVA PBS Official1.19M views
Göbekli Tepe and the Stone Age temples of Anatolia: what excavations reveal about hunter-gatherers who built monuments.
54:02The Bizarre Mutations That Allow Us to Eat | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS
NOVA PBS Official143K views
How genetic mutations such as lactase persistence let human populations digest new foods.
Secret History of Silicon Valley
Computer History Museum491K views
Steve Blank traces Silicon Valley's origins to WWII electronic warfare and Cold War military funding.
Regreening the desert with John D. Liu | VPRO Documentary | 2012
vpro documentary5.46M views
VPRO follows John D. Liu documenting the restoration of China's Loess Plateau and other desert-regreening projects.
Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea | KQED Truly CA
KQED Arts1.31M views
KQED's documentary on California's Salton Sea: how an accidental lake formed, boomed as a resort and collapsed into an ecological crisis.
53:19Einstein's Quantum Riddle | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS
NOVA PBS Official6.61M views
The story of entanglement from the Einstein–Bohr debate to Bell's theorem and a cosmic Bell test using distant quasars.
Birth of BASIC
Dartmouth1.46M views
Dartmouth's documentary on how John Kemeny, Tom Kurtz and undergraduates created BASIC and the time-sharing system that let students program.
53:33When Whales Could Walk | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS
NOVA PBS Official2.31M views
The fossil evidence for how whales evolved from land mammals, from Pakicetus to modern whales.
Always/Never: The Quest for Safety, Control, and Survivability - Part 1
Sandia National Labs303K views
Part one of Sandia's documentary on how US nuclear weapons were engineered for safety, use control and survivability.
Happy People | Spring (part 1) [Happy People Documentary | Spring in Siberia Part 1
Дмитрий Васюков1.41M views
The first part of Happy People: A Year in the Taiga, following trappers in the Siberian village of Bakhta through spring as they prepare traps, boats and skis by hand.
UNIX: Making Computers Easier To Use -- AT&T Archives film from 1982, Bell Laboratories
AT&T Tech Channel499K views
AT&T's 1982 film on UNIX's design principles, showing small tools combined through pipes.
53:56Decoding the Universe: Cosmos | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS
NOVA PBS Official3.43M views
NOVA's Decoding the Universe episode on cosmology: the Big Bang, cosmic microwave background and dark energy.
1:53:04Black Hole Apocalypse: What's Inside a Black Hole? | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS
NOVA PBS Official7.72M views
Janna Levin hosts NOVA's two-hour documentary on black holes: formation, event horizons, gravitational waves and imaging.
54:07Inside Einstein's Mind | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS
NOVA PBS Official3.49M views
How Einstein's thought experiments led to special and general relativity, retold through his own reasoning.
16:04
Men and Dust (1940)
National Film Preservation FoundationA 16-minute video from National Film Preservation Foundation: “Men and Dust (1940)”.
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Trauma en Oriente Medio: el terrorismo de Hamás y la guerra de Israel en Gaza | DW Documental
DW DocumentalA 86-minute video from DW Documental: “Trauma en Oriente Medio: el terrorismo de Hamás y la guerra de Israel en Gaza | DW Documental”.
42:27Bután - Un viaje al sur desconocido | DW Documental
DW DocumentalA 42-minute video from DW Documental: “Bután - Un viaje al sur desconocido | DW Documental”.
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11 Alexander Wetmore en Panamá: 1955 - Instituto Gorgas
Smithsonian Tropical Research InstituteA 16-minute video from Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute: “11 Alexander Wetmore en Panamá: 1955 - Instituto Gorgas”.
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The Making of a Renaissance Book (1969)
Rare Book SchoolA 21-minute video from Rare Book School: “The Making of a Renaissance Book (1969)”.
52:40
আচার্য জগদীশচন্দ্র বসু - এক আলোকবর্তিকা
Ananda DasguptaA 53-minute video from Ananda Dasgupta: “আচার্য জগদীশচন্দ্র বসু - এক আলোকবর্তিকা”.
42:27Arabia Saudita, entre la represión y el cambio | DW Documental
DW DocumentalA 42-minute video from DW Documental: “Arabia Saudita, entre la represión y el cambio | DW Documental”.
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Dutch free range farming - The Netherlands from above
vpro world storiesA 32-minute video from vpro world stories: “Dutch free range farming - The Netherlands from above”.
28:27Yemen dividido - Bajo control de la milicia hutí | DW Documental
DW DocumentalA 28-minute video from DW Documental: “Yemen dividido - Bajo control de la milicia hutí | DW Documental”.
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From Hurricanes to Your Street Corner: Photography from Space
Smithsonian National Air and Space MuseumA 28-minute video from Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: “From Hurricanes to Your Street Corner: Photography from Space”.
28:26Hockey sobre hielo en el Himalaya | DW Documental
DW DocumentalA 28-minute video from DW Documental: “Hockey sobre hielo en el Himalaya | DW Documental”.
13:077 Alexander Wetmore en Panamá: 1951 - Cerro Campana
Smithsonian Tropical Research InstituteA 13-minute video from Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute: “7 Alexander Wetmore en Panamá: 1951 - Cerro Campana”.
42:32Tel Aviv y el 7 de octubre | DW Documental
DW DocumentalA 43-minute video from DW Documental: “Tel Aviv y el 7 de octubre | DW Documental”.