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ScienceThe Default Mode Network & End of Suffering (2015)

1 point 1 comment submitted 2 days ago by AlwaysBeNice to /r/Documentaries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeNmydIk8Yo

ScienceA is For Atom (1953) General Electric Animated Doc on Nuclear Power And Its Peaceful Uses

19 points 3 comments submitted 11 days ago by AnAmericanPatrician to /r/Documentaries

https://youtu.be/dZSBuIHLVFg?t=3

ScienceSpace Dive (2012) "Space Dive tells the story of Felix Baumgartner’s historic, record-breaking freefall from the edge of space to Earth."

3 points 1 comment submitted 13 days ago by llrajsll to /r/Documentaries

http://vebup.com/space-dive

ScienceInto the Eternity: A Film For the Future (2010) - "Onkalo"

3 points 2 comments submitted 18 days ago by clueless_as_fuck to /r/Documentaries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HArxuzs1AA

ScienceEinstein (2008) directed by Philip Shane - The life story and achievements of dreamer and physicist Albert Einstein

14 points 5 comments submitted 20 days ago by com2mmm2mm to /r/Documentaries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eFkFiirMxI

Music, ScienceThe Reach of Resonance (2011) - "A meditation on the meaning of music" (runtime 1:41)

7 points 4 comments submitted 23 days ago by intesvensk to /r/Documentaries

https://vimeo.com/37039314

ScienceABSOLUTE ZERO - PBS NOVA DOCUMENTARY ABOUT COLD (2015) [55:10]

34 points 3 comments submitted 26 days ago by Bitcoin0 to /r/Documentaries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTFRgosx4aQ

ScienceQuantum Leap (2010) - "National Geographic"

4 points 0 comments submitted 1 month ago by tauqeers to /r/Documentaries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ystqPDQLcw

ScienceA Mathematical Mystery Tour (1984), [57:06]; a BBC-Horizon film discussing the world of abstract mathematics. absolutely fantastic and accurate.

13 points 7 comments submitted 1 month ago by peecatchwho to /r/Documentaries

https://vimeo.com/127338218

ScienceCounting From Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture (2015)

6 points 3 comments submitted 1 month ago by davidreiss666 to /r/Documentaries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIIyKWxGhEA

ScienceThe Secret Of Antarctica (2013) - "A surprising discovery below the ice"

0 points 2 comments submitted 1 month ago by tauqeers to /r/Documentaries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqCKfsvi4iI

ScienceWe of the Sea (2016) "a short film that shows personal connections to the ocean for three people of various backgrounds."

1 point 0 comments submitted 1 month ago by Fossilhog to /r/Documentaries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFrBf0U11FA&feature=youtu.be

ScienceBest US Army Ground Attack Jet The Fairchild Republic A 10 Thunderbolt (2016) - Speechless

0 points 4 comments submitted 2 months ago by lukewhitesell2 to /r/Documentaries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HONFqHP_pbw

ScienceWhat Really is Magnetism? : Documentary on the Science of Magnetism (2014)

4,824 points 413 comments submitted 2 months ago by armchairdictator to /r/Documentaries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht5iQyqoors

ScienceRobotics Engineer :Next Future Robotics Technology (NOVA ScienceNow) (2016) - This is how the robots will change the future

0 points 3 comments submitted 2 months ago by qela1 to /r/Documentaries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2hoIXALWwM

ScienceThe Infinite Voyage: Unseen Worlds (1987) - advances in visual technologies are effecting the entire realm of science, microbiology, astronomy, archaeology, and medicine.

3 points 0 comments submitted 2 months ago by MyTravelClips to /r/Documentaries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uESvtL3ME0

ScienceQuantum Physics and Microscopic Universe (2010)

6 points 4 comments submitted 2 months ago by Zeetechsee to /r/Documentaries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gIdMEAvQk0

Science[PBS] NOVA: The Race For Absolute Zero (2014)

0 points 1 comment submitted 2 months ago by Theeeantifeminist to /r/Documentaries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzYdo1xEbQo

ScienceThe Story Of The Trieste - (1960) the first manned vessel to have reached the bottom of the Challenger Deep

32 points 4 comments submitted 2 months ago by ichaelf to /r/Documentaries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmkgbMrzN3Q

ScienceThis Innocent Looking Airship Can Spot Incoming Missile From 340 Miles Away JLENS (2016)

64 points 18 comments submitted 2 months ago by jenniferpro3 to /r/Documentaries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4n2tF_fNH0

Science"The Evolution of Time" (Director's Cut) (2014) The Evolution of Time and the Carnot Cycle at the Edge of the Universe. [3:27:14]

6 points 4 comments submitted 2 months ago by schwartzchild76 to /r/Documentaries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7bbYNCdqak

ScienceBBC Horizon - project greenglow - the quest for gravity control (2016) [59:13]

13 points 7 comments submitted 2 months ago by starkiwi to /r/Documentaries

http://thevideo.me/8rgc0ql8sd5v/horizon.s55e02.project.greenglow.the.quest.for.gravity.control.hdtv.x264-c4tv.mp4

Science/MathematicsThe Banach–Tarski Paradox (2015) [1080p]

6 points 4 comments submitted 2 months ago by MeowMixSong to /r/Documentaries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s86-Z-CbaHA

ScienceLight Darkness And Colours (1998)(51:15) - A description of color as we perceive it: as an interplay between light and shadow that goes beyond newton's one-Dimensional color spectrum

23 points 5 comments submitted 2 months ago by LittleAsi to /r/Documentaries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmhSXTMTtJM

ScienceA modern Aladdin's lamp (1940) - a documentary on how vacuum tubes affected every day life in the 1940s.

178 points 17 comments submitted 3 months ago by TlMTAM to /r/Documentaries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-JzxX75oYc

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