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1.
How the Universe Works (2010– )
Episode:
How to Build a Planet
(2020)
TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary
Some of the brightest minds and theorists on the planet explore the limits of human knowledge and explain the science behind the rules of the universe.
Stars: Moogega Cooper, Erik Dellums, Dan Durda, Phil Hopkins
Votes: 14
2. Captain Disillusion: Fame Curve Collection (2011 Video)
Short, Comedy
The famous YouTube Captain disillusion appears in this movie. It has some of his favourite episodes and extra content!
Director: Alan Melikdjanian | Stars: Lauren Hardie, George Hrab, Penn Jillette, Alan Melikdjanian
Votes: 72
3. The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe (2005 Podcast Series)
Talk-Show
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe is a weekly science podcast discussing the latest science news, critical thinking, bad science, conspiracies and controversies.
Stars: Phil Plait, Bill Nye, George Hrab, Brian Dunning
Votes: 11
4.
How the Universe Works (2010– )
Episode:
Moon
(2021)
TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary
New scientific discoveries reveal that the moon has an incredible, violent, and dynamic history. Was the moon originally more similar to earth than previously thought?
Stars: Erik Dellums, Dan Durda, Nina Lanza, Kimberly Moore
Votes: 14
5.
Space's Deepest Secrets (2016– )
Episode:
Alien Hell Storms
(2019)
TV-PG | 42 min | Documentary
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are homes to the deadliest storms in our solar system, and new discoveries reveal the secrets of this hellish alien weather, helping experts understand these alien worlds better than ever.
Stars: Brigette Hesman, Carly Howett, Sarah Hörst, Dominik Kraus
Votes: 7
6.
Space's Deepest Secrets (2016– )
Episode:
Asteroid Apocalypse
(2019)
TV-G | 42 min | Documentary
New discoveries reveal the apocalyptic consequences of an asteroid strike.
Stars: Laura Danly, Sylvester James Gates Jr., Jess Johnson, Timothy Linn
Votes: 6
7.
How the Universe Works (2010– )
Episode:
Journey to a Black Hole
(2021)
TV-PG | 84 min | Documentary
Journey to the M87 supermassive black hole and explore its mystery.
Stars: Mike Rowe, James S. Bullock, Alex Filippenko, Philip Hopkins
Votes: 57
8. How the Universe Works (2010– )
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary
A users guide to the cosmos from the big bang to galaxies, stars, planets and moons. Where did it all come from and how does it all fit together. A primer for anyone who has ever looked up at the night sky and wondered.
Stars: Phil Plait, Michelle Thaller, Richard Lintern, Mike Rowe
Votes: 7,252
9.
How the Universe Works (2010– )
Episode:
Edge of the Universe
(2020)
TV-PG | 42 min | Documentary
We don't yet know where the edge of the universe is or what happens there; but thanks to cutting-edge technology and new discoveries, experts might finally reveal the secrets of the ... See full summary »
Stars: Erik Dellums, Richard Lintern, James S. Bullock, Sean Carroll
Votes: 74
10.
Space's Deepest Secrets (2016– )
Episode:
Hunt for the Mars Aliens
(2020)
Not Rated | Documentary
NASA's brand-new Mars rover is on the hunt for alien life, and with the help of cutting-edge engineering, scientists embark on a search for fossilized remains, which might prove the Red ... See full summary »
Stars: Hakeem Oluseyi, Phil Plait, Parker Sawyers, Michelle Thaller
Votes: 8
11.
Strip the Cosmos (2014– )
Episode:
Hunting a Comet
(2014)
TV-G | 45 min | Documentary
Comets appear from nowhere and then blaze across the sky in a magnificent display of cosmic fireworks before disappearing into the darkness. This film reveals our extraordinary relationship with comets, exploring how these icy dirt balls may actually hold the key to all life on Earth. Stunning CGI animation tears open the comet to reveal the secrets locked inside its nucleus. We travel back in ... See full summary »
Director: Martin Kemp | Stars: Eric Loren, Hakeem Oluseyi, Phil Plait, Mark Sykes
Votes: 17
12.
Space's Deepest Secrets (2016– )
Episode:
Mystery of the Alien Megastructure
(2018)
TV-PG | 42 min | Documentary
A mysterious star hundreds of light years away might hold the hard evidence of extraterrestrial life, as experts speculate that its bizarre behavior points to proof of a massive alien-made megastructure.
Director: Tom Hewitson | Stars: Tabetha Boyajian, Dan Clemens, Steve Croft, Brian Greene
Votes: 7
13. Game on! (2012– )
News, Talk-Show
Stars: Brian Brushwood, Veronica Belmont, Jim Cutler, Chad Johnson
Votes: 10
14.
How the Universe Works (2010– )
Episode:
Cassini's Final Secrets
(2019)
TV-PG | 42 min | Documentary
For twenty years, NASA's Cassini spacecraft revealed the strange secrets of Saturn until it vaporized in its atmosphere in a blaze of glory. But today its legacy lives on, as fresh data ... See full summary »
Stars: Richard Lintern, Mike Rowe, Chris McKay, James S. Bullock
Votes: 65
15.
Strip the Cosmos (2014– )
Episode:
Alien Worlds
(2014)
TV-G | 44 min | Documentary
Alien worlds are out there. Astronomers now think almost every star has planets orbiting around it, creating billions of different environments in deep space. Weird bacteria exist in the most extreme places on Earth, there's no reason why life shouldn't thrive elsewhere. How will we find life elsewhere in the universe? Diving into the deepest depths of our galaxy in search of the places life ... See full summary »
Director: Matthew Walters | Stars: Eric Loren, Hakeem Oluseyi, Phil Plait, Michelle Thaller
Votes: 16
16.
How the Universe Works (2010– )
Episode:
Edge of the Solar System
(2015)
TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary
Giant magnetic bubbles millions of miles wide, bizarre invisible matter, and a death star tearing through bands of icy comets, flinging them into violent orbits. All this and more could be ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Bridge | Stars: Richard Lintern, Mike Rowe, Hakeem Oluseyi, Michelle Thaller
Votes: 101
17.
How the Universe Works (2010– )
Episode:
Are black holes real
(2018)
TV-PG | 43 min | Documentary
Various eminent scientists explain the current knowledge of Black Holes and try to answer the question, do they really exist? The two great theories of Einstein's General Relativity and ... See full summary »
Stars: Richard Lintern, Mike Rowe, James S. Bullock, Moogega Cooper
Votes: 73
18.
How the Universe Works (2010– )
Episode:
Mystery of Spacetime
(2018)
TV-PG | 42 min | Documentary
Spacetime is the secret structure that controls our universe, time, light, and energy.
Stars: Richard Lintern, Mike Rowe, Rana Adhikari, James S. Bullock
Votes: 69
19.
How the Universe Works (2010– )
Episode:
Nightmares of Neutron Stars
(2019)
TV-PG | 42 min | Documentary
Neutron stars are strange and violent phenomena that defy the laws of physics, and new discoveries reveal that these bizarre nightmares are far more deadly than previously believed, with the power to destroy planets and even other stars.
Director: Paul O'Connor | Stars: Richard Lintern, Mike Rowe, Edo Berger, James S. Bullock
Votes: 80
20. Nova (1974– )
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary
Science documentaries about various topics.
Stars: Jay O. Sanders, Craig Sechler, Stacy Keach, Eric Meyers
Votes: 3,099
21.
How the Universe Works (2010– )
Episode:
The End of the Universe
(2014)
TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary
How and when will the Universe end? Gravity and dark matter are poised to annihilate the Universe in a big crunch. Expansion and dark energy may tear it apart. Or, a phase transition could kill us tomorrow in a cosmic death bubble.
Director: Mark Bridge | Stars: Richard Lintern, Mike Rowe, Michelle Thaller, Sean Carroll
Votes: 130
22.
How the Universe Works (2010– )
Episode:
Our Voyage to the Stars
(2014)
TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary
One day, a cosmic disaster will make life on Earth impossible. To survive, we must find a new home amongst the stars. Scientists are already developing new propulsion systems to take us to these distant worlds.
Director: Mark Bridge | Stars: Richard Lintern, Mike Rowe, Michelle Thaller, Chris McKay
Votes: 106
23.
How the Universe Works (2010– )
Episode:
Monster Black Hole
(2015)
TV-PG | 43 min | Documentary
Black holes are the least understood places in the universe, where the rules of physics collapse. We go inside the super-massive black hole in the center of the Milky Way.
Director: Mark Bridge | Stars: Erik Dellums, Richard Lintern, Phil Plait, Michelle Thaller
Votes: 98
24.
How the Universe Works (2010– )
Episode:
Strange Lives of Dwarf Planets
(2018)
TV-PG | 42 min | Documentary
New discoveries reveal the secrets of hundreds of strange, tiny worlds called dwarf planets.
Stars: Richard Lintern, Mike Rowe, Kevin Walsh, Dan Durda
Votes: 61
25.
How the Universe Works (2010– )
Episode:
When Supernovas Strike
(2019)
TV-PG | 42 min | Documentary
Supernovas are the violent death of giant stars, and new discoveries reveal that these cataclysmic events create the elements that are essential to all life in the universe.
Director: Claire Justin | Stars: Richard Lintern, Mike Rowe, James S. Bullock, Moogega Cooper
Votes: 73
26.
How the Universe Works (2010– )
Episode:
Great American Eclipse: One Year Later
(2018)
TV-PG | Documentary
Director: Paul O'Connor | Stars: Mike Rowe, James S. Bullock, Amir Caspi, Yaireska M. Collado-Vega
Votes: 8
27. Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time (2019)
TV-PG | 29 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
View what the modern science points to what the future looks like from the present year all the way to trillions upon trillions of years into the future.
Director: John D. Boswell | Stars: David Attenborough, Sean Carroll, Craig Childs, Brian Cox
Votes: 453
28. Smarter Every Day (2011– )
Documentary
Destin explores the world using science.
Stars: Destin Sandlin, Tara Sandlin, Gordon McGladdery, Phil Torres
Votes: 130
29.
How the Universe Works (2010– )
Episode:
Monsters of the Milky Way
(2020)
TV-PG | 42 min | Documentary
The center of the Milky Way is home to strange and deadly phenomena that we don't yet understand, but using the latest science, experts are revealing how the super-massive black hole at our galaxy's core shapes life on Earth.
Stars: Erik Dellums, Richard Lintern, Katie Bouman, James S. Bullock
Votes: 57
30.
How the Universe Works (2010– )
Episode:
Earth's Death Orbit
(2020)
TV-PG | 42 min | Documentary
Earth's journey through the universe is a perilous one, and new discoveries reveal that our planet is heading toward a mysterious area of the cosmos that could eject us out of the Milky Way and into oblivion.
Stars: Erik Dellums, Richard Lintern, James S. Bullock, Moogega Cooper
Votes: 51
31.
How the Universe Works (2010– )
Episode:
Jupiter: Destroyer or Savior?
(2014)
TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary
Beneath Jupiter's swirling clouds lie our solar system's deepest secrets: from its violent youth, through the birth of life to the death of the sun. Now, scientists are unlocking these ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Bridge | Stars: Richard Lintern, Mike Rowe, Phil Plait, Lawrence Krauss
Votes: 120
32.
How the Universe Works (2010– )
Episode:
Dawn of Life
(2015)
TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary
We're on the verge of unconvering the how life on Earth came to be. Our origin is a hotly contested scientific debate. Did we come from strange volcanic hatcheries deep under the sea? Or did life on Earth come from another planet?
Director: Mark Bridge | Stars: Richard Lintern, Mike Rowe, Phil Plait, Moogega Cooper
Votes: 97
33.
How the Universe Works (2010– )
Episode:
The First Oceans
(2015)
TV-PG | 43 min | Documentary
For years, scientists suspected that the oceans came from molecules delivered to Earth from distant stars by asteroids, but a new discovery suggests that their true origins may be more exotic.
Director: Mark Bridge | Stars: Richard Lintern, Mike Rowe, Moogega Cooper, Phil Plait
Votes: 80
34.
How the Universe Works (2010– )
Episode:
The Mystery of Planet 9
(2016)
TV-PG | 43 min | Documentary
Scientists have discovered a mysterious ninth planet on the very edge of our solar system. Ten times the size of Earth, this strange world could have moons with extraterrestrial life.
Stars: Richard Lintern, Mike Rowe, Mike Brown, Michelle Thaller
Votes: 83
35.
How the Universe Works (2010– )
Episode:
The Quasar Enigma
(2018)
TV-PG | 42 min | Documentary
Quasars are the brightest and most powerful objects in our universe, and though they have shaped the cosmos, they might ultimately destroy everything that exists.
Stars: Richard Lintern, Mike Rowe, James S. Bullock, Jedidah Isler
Votes: 68
37.
How the Universe Works (2010– )
Episode:
Death of the Last Stars
(2020)
TV-PG | 42 min | Documentary
Our universe's stars are dying off faster than new ones are born, and using the latest technology, experts investigate the secrets of the last stars of the cosmos and what this stellar apocalypse means for life on earth.
Stars: Erik Dellums, Richard Lintern, James S. Bullock, Moogega Cooper
Votes: 55
38.
How the Universe Works (2010– )
Episode:
Secrets of Time Travel
(2020)
TV-PG | 42 min | Documentary
A look at the concepts behind changing the way we travel through the space-time continuum, and how extreme speed and extreme gravity can change the rules of the game.
Stars: Erik Dellums, Richard Lintern, James S. Bullock, Sean Carroll
Votes: 62
39.
How the Universe Works (2010– )
Episode:
When NASA Met Jupiter
(2020)
TV-PG | 42 min | Documentary
NASA's Juno spacecraft is part of a cutting-edge mission to explore the mysteries of Jupiter. As this mighty probe is pummeled with deadly radiation, it gathers new data that could change ... See full summary »
Stars: Erik Dellums, Richard Lintern, Scott Bolton, Moogega Cooper
Votes: 53
40.
How the Universe Works (2010– )
Episode:
Gravitational Waves Revealed
(2021)
TV-PG | 42 min | Documentary
Gravitational waves allow scientists to explore the universe in a new way.
Stars: Mike Rowe, Jessica Esquivel, Chiara Mingarelli, Hakeem Oluseyi
Votes: 47
41.
How the Universe Works (2010– )
Episode:
First Second of the Big Bang
(2014)
TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary
The first second of the Universe, the creation of everything when space, time, matter and energy burst into existence. It is the most important second in history, which seals the Universe's... See full summary »
Director: Mark Bridge | Stars: Richard Lintern, Mike Rowe, Lawrence Krauss, Michio Kaku
Votes: 117
42.
How the Universe Works (2010– )
Episode:
Is Saturn Alive?
(2014)
TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary
Saturn's secrets are out. The ferocious weather, the evolving ring system and the discovery of active geology on Saturn's moons has rewritten the textbooks. Scientists are looking for life ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Bridge | Stars: Erik Dellums, Richard Lintern, Mike Rowe, Phil Plait
Votes: 103
43.
How the Universe Works (2010– )
Episode:
The Search for a Second Earth
(2014)
TV-PG | 42 min | Documentary
Is there another Earth out there with liquid oceans, rocky continents and life like us? Astronomers seek the answer with spectroscopy, direct imaging and telescopes. They hope to find ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Bridge | Stars: Richard Lintern, Mike Rowe, James S. Bullock, Dan Durda
Votes: 108
44.
How the Universe Works (2010– )
Episode:
Secret History of the Moon
(2015)
TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary
Our Moon is stranger than you think, and we reveal its incredible secrets. Can we thank the Moon for life on Earth? What explains the mysterious tunnels beneath its surface? Is a lunar base the key to humanity's future in space?
Stars: Richard Lintern, Mike Rowe, Moogega Cooper, Phil Plait
Votes: 96
45.
How the Universe Works (2010– )
Episode:
Uranus & Neptune: Rise of the Ice Giants
(2018)
TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary
Uranus and Neptune are mysterious, icy worlds at the edge of our solar system, and new discoveries reveal that these strange planets may have helped start life on Earth.
Stars: Richard Lintern, Mike Rowe, Kevin Walsh, Konstantin Batygin
Votes: 69
46.
How the Universe Works (2010– )
Episode:
The Interstellar Mysteries
(2019)
TV-PG | 42 min | Documentary
Discoveries about interstellar space, the space between the universe's stars, reveal that it's not empty and unremarkable as previously thought, but filled with weird objects and strange ... See full summary »
Stars: Richard Lintern, Mike Rowe, James S. Bullock, Moogega Cooper
Votes: 70
47.
How the Universe Works (2010– )
Episode:
Did the Big Bang Really Happen?
(2019)
TV-PG | 42 min | Documentary
New discoveries are causing astronomers to question if the Big Bang really happened, and using the latest science, they investigate if it wasn't just the start of our universe but many mysterious multiverses.
Director: Paul O'Connor | Stars: Richard Lintern, Mike Rowe, James S. Bullock, Sean Carroll
Votes: 70
48.
How the Universe Works (2010– )
Episode:
Finding the New Earth
(2019)
TV-PG | 42 min | Documentary
New discoveries have revealed thousands of exoplanets beyond the solar system. Some resemble earth enough that one could be a new home for humanity. Even with cutting-edge technology, ... See full summary »
Stars: Richard Lintern, Mike Rowe, Amir Caspi, Moogega Cooper
Votes: 61
49. The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005–2015)
TV-14 | 40 min | Comedy, Music, Talk-Show
Making a satire out of the entire Late Night Show concept Scotsman Craig Ferguson hosts his show with a robot skeleton and a "horse" as his sidekicks. The show features the stereotypical parts of a Late Show, but all in their own, raw way.
Stars: Craig Ferguson, Shadoe Stevens, Josh Robert Thompson, Joseph Bolter
Votes: 11,498
50. The Expanse: Expanded (2016 TV Short)
19 min | Short, Sci-Fi
Adam Savage (of Mythbusters) takes you behind the scenes of The Expanse and gives you a look into Season 2.
Director: Timothy M. Gray | Stars: Daniel Abraham, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Cas Anvar, Pirate Baban
Votes: 180