Movies: Physics
- 2015
Scotland's Einstein: James Clerk Maxwell - The Man Who Changed the World (2015)
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Professor Iain Stewart reveals the story behind the Scottish physicist who was Einstein's hero; James Clerk Maxwell. Maxwell's discoveries not only inspired Einstein, but they helped shape our modern world - allowing the development of radio, TV, mob...
- 2013
Pop! The Science of Bubbles (2013)
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Physicist Dr Helen Czerski takes us on a journey into the science of bubbles - not just fun toys, but also powerful tools that push back the boundaries of science....
- 2020
The Last Artifact (2020)
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Just outside Paris, France, inside a high-tech vault, requiring three independently controlled keys, rests a small metallic cylinder about the diameter of a golf ball. Encased within three vacuum-sealed bell jars it may not look like much, but it is ...
- 2013
CERN (2013)
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CERN in Switzerland is a research center where they try to recreate the big bang. Nikolaus Geyrhalter follows the center's infrastructure and meets the people who created the "Large Hadron Collider"....
- 2013
Fermilab: Science at Work (2013)
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Six days. Three frontiers. One amazing lab. From 2010 to 2012, a film crew followed a group of scientists at the Department of Energy's Fermilab and filmed them at work and at home. This 40-minute documentary shows the diversity of the people, resear...
- 2019
Undo (2019)
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A physicist celebrates a breakthrough in reversing the flow of time… until a haunting figure pays him a visit....
- 2018
Almost Nothing (2018)
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CERN, the world's largest physics laboratory, is also a society in itself. A mythological microcosm and science's answer to the Tower of Babel, with its many thousand employees as an indispensable element among cables and computers. The researchers s...
- 2017
The Hunt for Dark Matter (2017)
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CERN and the University of California-Santa Barbara are collaborating in the search for the elusive substance that physicists and astronomers believe holds the universe together -- dark matter. Where is this search now in the realm of particle physic...
- 2018
The Birth of Narcissus (2018)
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A young agoraphobic and megalomaniac scientist expresses a strong contempt for his fellows. Obsessed with a physical paradox he can't seem to solve, he decides to clone himself, since, according to him, only a brain similar to his can accomplish his ...
- 2010
CERN, or The Factory for the Absolute (2010)
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- 2020
Cyclotron (2020)
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A film about the world's oldest functional particle accelerator and the people who keep it running today....
- 1960
Frames of Reference (1960)
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An educational physics film utilizing a fascinating set consisting of a rotating table and furniture occupying surprisingly unpredictable spots within the viewing area, Leacock’s Frames of Reference (1960), features fine cinematography by Abraham Mor...
- 1952
Polarograf (1952)
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- 2015
Riding Light (2015)
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In our terrestrial view of things, the speed of light seems incredibly fast. But as soon as you view it against the vast distances of the universe, it's unfortunately very slow. This animation illustrates, in realtime, the journey of a photon of ligh...
- 1964
What is the Theory of Relativity? (1964)
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In a compartment of the Moscow-Novosibirsk train, a young physicist meets famous film actors. The conversation accidentally comes to Einstein, and the woman begins to explain to her fellow travelers what the theory of relativity is. The actors are in...
- 2021
Alessandra Pacini: Extreme Weather from the Sun to the Earth (2021)
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Alessandra Pacini, solar physicist and mother of two, has dedicated her life to researching our sun and its relation to the rest of our solar system. Traveling across the globe with her family, from Finland to Puerto Rico, Alessandra is on a mission ...
- 1952
Proměny energie (1952)
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- 1981
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out (1981)
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Richard Feynman was a scientific genius with - in his words - a "limited intelligence". This dichotomy is just one of the characteristics that made him a fascinating subject. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out exposes us to many more of these intrigu...
- 2022
Way Beyond (2022)
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The Future Circular Collider is the machine of the future. Thanks to it, we will finally be able to go back in time to the origin of our universe. But which way do we go to set up the largest scientific instrument of all time? Between metaphysics and...
- 2013
Why Do I Study Physics (2013)
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A short animated query exploring the perplexing affection that comes with an appreciation of the laws of physics....