Video Lectures
115 documentaries and lectures covering the entire history of physics
1The Scientific Revolution — Copernicus & Galileo(18 videos)
Copernicus — BBC The Beauty of Diagrams (2of6)
Copernicus
Chasing the Masterpiece of Copernicus
Copernicus
Copernicus and His World
Copernicus
Was Copernicus Right?
Copernicus
Galileo Galilei Documentary — The World Changes
Galileo
PBS Nova — Galileo's Battle for the Heavens
Galileo
Nova Galileo Documentary — The Earth Spins
Galileo
Galileo Galilei: First Astronomical Telescope
Galileo
History: Galileo's Battle for the Heavens — Science And Church
Galileo
Galileo Galilei by Brecht
Galileo
The Church Versus Galileo — Introduction
Galileo
Queen Elizabeth I's Astronomer, John Dee
John Dee
Christianity — God and the Scientists
Science & Religion
Universe Documentary — Universe in Motion
Astronomy
De Humani Corporis Fabrica — Andreas Vesalius
Vesalius
Transformations — Les écrits inédits de Simon Stevin
Simon Stevin
A Visual Riddle — The Epitaph of Stevinus
Simon Stevin
Historical Scientific Instruments
Instruments
2Newton & the Royal Society(23 videos)
BBC Documentary — Sir Isaac Newton
Newton
Newton's General Scholium in 17th & 18th Century Religion
Newton
Newton on the Beach: Principia Mathematica
Newton
Newton on the Ganges: Asiatic Enlightenment of British Astronomy
Newton
Rare Bites: Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton (1687)
Newton
Isaac Newton: His Life and Work — Simon Schaffer (1983)
Newton
Le monde d'Isaac Newton
Newton
On the Shoulders of Giants: Newton Revealed
Newton
Secret Life of Isaac Newton
Newton
Supplemental — Isaac Newton, Magic and Heresy
Newton
Alchemy — Documentary 1995 (Paracelsus, Newton, Jung)
Alchemy
Brilliant Minds: Galileo, Newton, Einstein, Hawking
Overview
Brilliant Minds: Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton
Overview
Sir Christopher Wren: Buildings, Places and Genius
Wren
Wren, Hooke, Boyle, Newton, Halley
Royal Society
Cosmos de Christopher Wren
Wren
London's Leonardo: Robert Hooke at the Dawn of Modern Science
Hooke
Robert Hooke — Beginnings of Science and Surveying
Hooke
Robert Hooke: Victim of Genius
Hooke
Robert Hooke: The Man Who Measured London
Hooke
The Trouble with Leviathan and the Air Pump
Boyle
Defining Science Through History — The Royal Society
Royal Society
Otto von Guericke's Magdeburg Hemisphere Experiment
Von Guericke
3Chemistry & the Enlightenment(13 videos)
Joseph Priestley Discovers Oxygen
Priestley
Discoveries of Joseph Priestley House: Nitrous Oxide
Priestley
At Home with Joseph Priestley
Priestley
The Mystery of Matter: "OUT OF THIN AIR"
Chemistry
The Mystery of Matter: "UNRULY ELEMENTS"
Chemistry
The Mystery of Matter: "INTO THE ATOM"
Chemistry
Antoine Lavoisier — Conservation of Mass
Lavoisier
La découverte de l'oxygène et de la combustion (1946)
Combustion
Investigating the Periodic Table with Experiments — Peter Wothers
Periodic Table
Forgotten Thinkers: Émilie du Châtelet
Du Châtelet
Alexander von Humboldt — Documentary
Humboldt
The Measure of All Things
Measurement
The New Scientific Institution in Paris (18th–19th Century)
French Science
4Steam, Industry & Thermodynamics(7 videos)
Les amis qui ont changé le monde — La Lunar Society de Birmingham
Lunar Society
The Lunar Society of 18th Century Britain
Lunar Society
James Watt and the Lunar Society
Watt
Exploring the Life and Times of James Watt
Watt
History of Thermodynamics — Documentary 2017
Thermodynamics
Ludwig Boltzmann — The Genius of Disorder (2007)
Boltzmann
ICTP Documentary — Ludwig Boltzmann: The Genius of Disorder
Boltzmann
5Electricity & Magnetism(9 videos)
Story of Electricity — The Greeks to Franklin (1968)
Early Electricity
Michael Faraday: From Electricity to Power Generation
Faraday
Early Experiments of Michael Faraday (ca. 1933)
Faraday
André-Marie Ampère: Electromagnetism
Ampère
James Clerk Maxwell — A Sense of Wonder
Maxwell
Nikola Tesla vs Thomas Edison — Documentary 2015
Tesla & Edison
From Voltage to Flow: How Georg Ohm Quantified Electricity
Ohm
Tesla's Forgotten Genius: The Discoveries That Shaped Our World
Tesla
Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity — Jim Al-Khalili (BBC)
Electricity
6Radioactivity & Atomic Physics(14 videos)
Atomic Physics — 1948 Documentary
Atomic Physics
The Discovery of Radioactivity
Radioactivity
Rutherford and the Birth of Nuclear Physics
Rutherford
Rutherford and the Old Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge
Rutherford
Lise Meitner
Meitner
Lise Meitner — NTV Einstein's Big Idea
Meitner
Lise Meitner Symposium — Panel 1: Life and Work
Meitner
Atom: The Clash of Titans — Jim Al-Khalili
Atomic Theory
Subatomic Particles — CBSE Chemistry Class 11
Subatomic
Max Planck — Original Interview (1942)
Planck
Max Planck & Albert Einstein: How Quantum Theory Changed Everything
Planck & Einstein
Nuclear History: From Atom to B Reactor
Nuclear
The World of Enrico Fermi (1970)
Fermi
Steven Weinberg: "Glimpses of a World Within" (2014)
Weinberg
7Einstein & Relativity(2 videos)
Inside Einstein's Mind — Full Documentary (NOVA PBS)
Einstein
Secrets of Einstein's Equation — Sean Carroll (2023)
Einstein
8Quantum Mechanics & Wave-Particle Duality(11 videos)
A Brief History of Quantum Mechanics (Part 1)
Quantum History
Discovering Science: Uncertain Principles
Uncertainty
AT&T Archives: Matter Waves — Davisson-Germer Experiment
Wave-Particle
Paul Dirac — Interview by Friedrich Hund (1982)
Dirac
Quantum Physics & Quantum Theory — Discovery Science Channel
Quantum
Schrödinger's Quantum Leap: The Birth of Modern Physics
Schrödinger
Who is Erwin Schrödinger the Quantum Pioneer?
Schrödinger
Experiments with the Bubble Model of Metallic Structure (1952) — Sir Lawrence Bragg
Bragg
A Century of Crystallography: The Heritage of the Braggs
Bragg
How Quantum Entanglement Changed Reality Forever
Entanglement
How Arnold Sommerfeld Revolutionized Electricity with Quantum Mechanics
Sommerfeld
9Particle Physics & the Standard Model(4 videos)
The Standard Model Through History
Standard Model
A Crash Course in Particle Physics (1 of 2)
Particles
A Crash Course in Particle Physics (2 of 2)
Particles
The Story of Physics ft. Edward Witten
String Theory
10Modern Physics, Medical Imaging & Computing(14 videos)
Fondements de la physique — Cours intensif
Foundations
How Gravity Shapes the Human Body — Jim Al-Khalili
Gravity
The True Nature of Light and Energy — BBC
Light & Energy
History of Computerized Tomography (CT Scanner)
CT Scanning
MRI: Physics & A Brief History
MRI
The History of Computing — From Vacuum Tube to Integrated Circuit
Computing
Tracing the Path of Computer Science
Computing
He Climbed the Eiffel Tower... and Changed Physics Forever
Radio & Broadcasting
Dennis Gabor: The Man Who Invented Holography
Holography
The Man Who Named Plasma: How a Lightbulb Revealed the 4th State of Matter
Plasma Physics
Richard Tolman: The Physicist Who United Relativity and Thermodynamics
Tolman
George Gamow: The Physicist Who Explained Nucleosynthesis
Gamow
Niels Ryberg Finsen: The Physicist Who Pioneered Light Therapy! (1860-1904)
Light Therapy
How Four Equations Changed The World Forever
Maxwell Equations