Best Online Documentaries

How the universe began, how stars and black holes are created and how the universe will end.

Hawking explores one of the most important questions facing humankind: are we alone in the Universe?

From BBC's Horizon series - this documentary has to do with parallel universes, string theory, M theory, supergravity, and other theoretical physics concepts.

Cambridge University:

Was Darwin the most revolutionary scientist ever? If, by revolutionary, we mean the scientist whose discovery initiated the most seismic overturning of pre-existing science, the honour would at least be contested by Newton, Einstein and the architects of quantum theory. But Darwin probably did revolutionize the world view of people outside science more comprehensively than any other scientist. I want to recognize four bridges to evolutionary understanding. The first bridge is to natural selection as a force for weeding out the unfit. The second bridge is the recognition that natural selection can drive evolutionary change. Bridge number three leads to the imaginative grasp of the importance of natural selection in explaining all of life, in all its speciose richness. Bridge number four is the bridge to public understanding and appreciation. Darwin crossed it alone.

Order out of Chaos

Every so often a giant emerges on the stage of science, someone who transcends the narrow boundaries of a particular line of research and alters our perspective on the world. E.O. Wilson is such a man.

Documentary about the most probable reason(s) for the Permian mass extinction 250 million years ago.