universe Documentaries
Through The Wormhole: Are We Alone?
We know with almost certainty that aliens are out there in the universe, but why have we not found them yet? Scientist are hoping to change this equilibrium and make contact, a mission that will change our view on the universe like never before. In the documentary Through The Wormhole: Are We Alone?[...]
The Story of God with Morgan Freeman 3: Who is God?
In The Story of God With Morgan Freeman episode three, we explore the idea of who god might be. Cultures around the world worship their religion in many different ways however they all agree that there is one overall force that created the universe. To investigate Morgan travels around the wor[...]
Aliens: The Big Think
Aliens: the big think documentary. Before Frank Drake and his team of astronomers, cosmologists and thinkers went on a mission to discover extraterrestrial life more than 60 years ago you really could not be taken as a serious scientist if that was your field of study. It’s true our place in t[...]
The Story of God with Morgan Freeman 2: Apocalypse
The second episode in the documentary series presented by Morgan Freeman: The Story of God. In the second episode, we look into the Apocalypse, a tale described in almost all religions and something that we all think about from time to time. The universe had a beginning so surely it m[...]
The Invocation
“The Invocation” is a documentary about the notion of God and world Peace. There are a lot of problems in the world and the reality is we should be working towards world peace and trying to reduce Earth pollution. Narrator Sharon Stone interviews many influential people such as, Dee[...]
How the Universe Works: What Caused the Big Bang?
This documentary looks into what caused the big bang which if we turn back the cosmic clock we would see happened around 13.8 billion years ago. The big bang describes the state of the universe only a couple of femtosecond’s after time started which is a time so close to the beginning of time[...]
The Universe: The Biggest Things in Space
The universe is so big that it troubles one's mind to even think about it, but the objects within the universe are equally as astonishing. The Earth seems like a pretty big place however it is merely a spec of dust compared to the largest objects and structures in the universe, the closest objec[...]
Dancing in the Dark: The End of Physics?
Scientists still do not know what the universe is really made of. Its true that we only fully understand how atoms work which from our point of view seems like a massive part of the universe since they are the building blocks of stars, planets and us, however the reality is that atoms only make up a[...]
How Big is the Universe?
In this documentary BBC horizon investigates the question, how big is the Universe? At face value the idea of mapping out the universe is a simple task much like making accurate maps here on Earth however you would be wrong as the universe is certainly not a static object. The known or visible unive[...]
Visions of the Future: The Quantum Revolution
The quantum revolution is only just around the corner and the projects that scientists are working on around the world will more than likely find their way into our homes within the next 50 years. This new branch of science presents a number of challenges and more especially responsibility because o[...]
Tails You Win: The Science of Chance
A documentary about the science of chance presented by David Spiegelhalter. In this film we look into the world of chance which controls everything that we do, essentially we cannot predict precisely the future according our current knowledge however the mathematical principal of probability is cert[...]
Stephen Hawkings Grand Design: Did God Create the Universe?
In this documentary Stephen Hawking explores whether or not god created the universe. What is the universe and what is our place within it? This question has been embedded in the human mind forever and its based on the idea that there is something greater, a higher being that you could call “g[...]
Order and Disorder- Episode 2
Episode 2 in the two part documentary series Order and Disorder presented by Jim Al-Khalili. We are surrounded by both order and disorder. The universe is constantly falling into a disorderly state and this has been happening since the big bang when universally, molecules were in a much more or[...]
Order and Disorder- Episode 1
Episode 1 in the two part documentary series Order and Disorder presented by Jim Al-Khalili. Energy is vital to us all, it powers our cars built the monumental cities that dominate the landscape and has provided us with homes which protect us. You only have to see the images from the international s[...]
Is Everything We Know About the Universe Wrong?
Is everything that we know about the universe wrong? Scientists are used to having theories that they have worked on for years suddenly debunked but the idea that everything that we know about the universe being incorrect is a scary notion yet something that is scientific at its core. This troubling[...]
Faster Than the Speed of Light?
As we know the speed at which photons can travel is essentially the “speed limit” within our Universe. To our current knowledge nothing can travel faster than 299,792,458 meters per second and even getting close to this golden number takes an enormous amount of energy. CER[...]
Human Universe - Why Are We Here?
The second documentary in the series Human universe presented by Brian Cox. In this episode we look into a seemingly fundamental yet unanswerable question: Why are we here? To understand this we have to look at the incredible number of complex chance events which have put us here today on planet Ear[...]
Lost Horizons The Big Bang
In this documentary Jim Al Khalili takes us back through 50 years of BBC archive footage to document the history of two competing theories for the beginning of the Universe. However only one of the theories said that the universe “started”; the big bang theory, the name of[...]
The Lives of Stars
Episode 9 of Carl Sagans legendary series takes us into to the world of the giants, the light sources of our universe, and the varying types of stars we see throughout the cosmos. From blue giants, far larger than own sun to white dwarves which can be smaller than Earth. We look at how our live[...]
What on Earth is Wrong with Gravity?
From the swamps of Louisiana to the deserts of Arizona Brian Cox is looking for what the big problem with Gravity is. What is that problem? Well none of it really makes any sense in the grand scheme of things. Sure for the solar system it would seem that gravity is one of the major reasons why all o[...]
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