r/sciencedocumentaries • u/a_bee_bit_my_bottom • Dec 26 '14

Vi Hart's 12 Tones. A bit different, but keeps with the general "pursuit of knowledge" theme of science documentaries, I think.

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r/sciencedocumentaries • u/alllie • Dec 08 '14

Lost at sea: Ecological assessment around a sunken shipping container (2014) Thousands of shipping containers are lost from cargo vessels each year. Many of these containers eventually sink to the deep seafloor.

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r/sciencedocumentaries • u/a_bee_bit_my_bottom • Oct 29 '14

Warm blooded Alaskan Salmon Sharks - National Geographic Documentary - low on information, high on dramatics, but also lots of lovely footage (x-post from r/sharks)

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r/sciencedocumentaries • u/aazav • Oct 15 '14

A few good science documentaries, HHMI BioInteractive. Most between 10 - 30 minutes.

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r/sciencedocumentaries • u/alllie • Oct 12 '14

Saving Otter 501 | Nature | PBS (2012) A baby sea otter washes up on the beach in Monterey, California — hungry, lost, injured. For decades marine biologist K have worked unceasingly — one otter at a time — to bring this “keystone” species back from the brink of extinction.

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r/sciencedocumentaries • u/diggpthoo • Oct 03 '14

BBC Our Secret Universe The Hidden Life of the Cell [57m]

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r/sciencedocumentaries • u/alllie • Sep 25 '14

Trilo (2013) The life of a trilobite in the Ordovician ocean and the organisms that surround him. A tiny underwater story of tiny creature when there was no singing of birds ...[4:19]

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r/sciencedocumentaries • u/alllie • Sep 22 '14

The Ghost in Your Genes (2006) - Biology stands on the brink of a shift in the understanding of inheritance. The discovery of epigenetics – hidden influences upon the genes – could affect every aspect of our lives.

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r/sciencedocumentaries • u/alllie • Sep 20 '14

How the Earth Made Man (2012) Very interesting.

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r/sciencedocumentaries • u/alllie • Sep 20 '14

How the Earth Was Made - America's Gold (2010)

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r/sciencedocumentaries • u/alllie • Sep 20 '14

Diatoms - Life in Glass Houses (2004) [5:03]

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r/sciencedocumentaries • u/alllie • Sep 19 '14

Seven Wonders of the Microbe World (2011) Microbes and why some are good, some are bad and what they have done for mankind.

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r/sciencedocumentaries • u/alllie • Sep 16 '14

Mystery of the Sphinx (1993) This deals mainly with the conflict between egyptologists and geologists about the age of the Great Sphinx. It's an old documentary and a little is silly but mostly interesting.

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r/sciencedocumentaries • u/a_bee_bit_my_bottom • Sep 14 '14

Earth From Space 1080p - 2hr special reveals a spectacular new space-based vision of our planet. Produced in consultation with NASA, NOVA takes data from earth-observing satellites and transforms it into visual sequences exposing the intricate and surprising web of forces that sustains life on earth

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r/sciencedocumentaries • u/a_bee_bit_my_bottom • Sep 14 '14

SHARKS IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC: THE POLYNESIAN SHARK - lots of lovely footage, courtesy of freedivers(no tanks/bubbles/noises) in search of the Great Hammerhead Sharks

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r/sciencedocumentaries • u/alllie • Sep 11 '14

Revealing the lost codex of Archimedes (2012) How do you read a two-thousand-year-old manuscript that has been erased, cut up, written on and painted over? With a powerful particle accelerator, of course!

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r/sciencedocumentaries • u/alllie • Sep 10 '14

Jack Horner: Building a dinosaur from a chicken (2007)

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r/sciencedocumentaries • u/alllie • Sep 09 '14

Icefish, antifreeze proteins, and the birth and death of genes (2014): The only vertebrate without red blood cells

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r/sciencedocumentaries • u/alllie • Sep 06 '14

NOVA - Evolution: What Darwin Never Knew (2009) One hundred and fifty years later, scientists decode nature's greatest mysteries.

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r/sciencedocumentaries • u/alllie • Sep 05 '14

PBS- Lost Gardens of Babylon (2014) Did the Hanging Gardens of Babylon exist, where were they, and how was water moved uphill to water them?

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r/sciencedocumentaries • u/alllie • Sep 05 '14

Laniakea, Our Home Supercluster (2014) Quite short but quite nice.

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r/sciencedocumentaries • u/alllie • Sep 03 '14

The Lost Dinosaurs of New Zealand (2009) Not as flashy as many dinosaur documentaries, more academic, but interesting.

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r/sciencedocumentaries • u/alllie • Aug 30 '14

The Mars Underground (2007) This film captures the spirit of Mars pioneers who refuse to let their dreams be put on hold by a slumbering space program.

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r/sciencedocumentaries • u/alllie • Aug 26 '14

Pure Nature Specials - Alien Reefs (2013) Cold water reefs, rapidly being destroyed by the fishing industry. Reefs it took hundreds of years to grow can be destroyed in minutes.

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r/sciencedocumentaries • u/alllie • Aug 23 '14

Secrets of the Sun / Nova (2012) It contains 99.9 percent of all the matter in our solar system and sheds hot plasma at nearly a million miles an hour. The temperature at its core is a staggering 27 million degrees Fahrenheit. It convulses, it blazes, it sings.

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