Human, All Too Human

Friedrich Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil



Martin Heidegger: Design for Living



Jean-Paul Sartre: The Road to Freedom


From its roots in the 19th century to its full flowering in the 20th, existentialism has made a profound impression on the course of modern history. This powerful three-part series profiles the lives and critically examines the contributions of proto-existentialist Friedrich Nietzsche; Martin Heidegger; and Jean-Paul Sartre, under whom it ripened to its fullest expression. 3-part series, 50 minutes each.

Cosmic Journeys

Cutting-edge stories about the origins of the universe, black holes, exploding stars, the search for ET life, and the nature of the planets. Original productions from SPACERIP TV and Space.com.
Series features 12 episodes, each lasting around 20 minutes.
It's very professionally done, nice production and no time-wasting, each of 12 episodes has enough information for a full length documentary film.

Richard Dawkins – Break the Science Barrier

Richard Dawkins, a renowned author and a professor of public understanding of science at Oxford delivers a documentary about the importance of understanding the general scientific principles. It's not about the details of scientific methods, but about the general principles that should be understood by everyone, most importantly by politicians and government officials.

The Cell

Part 1: The Hidden Kingdom

Part 2: The Chemistry of Life

Part 3: The Spark of Life

The Cell, a three-part BBC documentary about the building blocks of all life, cells.
Starting with a bit of history about the first discoveries of the existence of cells and how it shattered the general view on life in a world filled with religious dogmas.
It then continues delving deeper in the cell itself, the structure and the famous DNA code contained in its heart.
The final part offers a glimpse on the future possible technologies that could be made possible with the knowledge about the cell we have now. Genetic manipulation offers many wonders...bacteria producing diesel fuel? - possible

What we still don't know

Part 1: Are we alone?


Part2: Why are we here?


Part 3: Are we real?



A three-part series in which cosmologist Sir Martin Rees tackles some of the most fundamental questions of existence. Are we alone? Why are we here? Are we real? Answer to each of them is a journey of it's own and well worth the watch.

Imagining the Tenth Dimension

A short presentation explaining the higher dimensions. Mind-boggling at first and even more so at second or third watch. Although the presentation itself is very simple, the concepts it tries to explain is far from that. Recommended if you want to blow your brains.

Douglas Adams: Parrots the Universe and Everything

Douglas Adams was the best-selling British author and satirist who created The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In this hilarious talk, Adams describes some truly weird lifestyles of some creatures that most of us never heard about as well as describing his travels around the world and the difficulties he faced during that time. Throughout the whole talk, Douglas Adams delivers his typical satirical and common-sense humor while providing a scientific talk about the biology of different species, meaning of the universe, and everything else.

Technocalyps

Part 1: Transhuman


Part 2: Preparing for Singularity


Part 3: The digital Messiah



A three part documentary, provocatively titled "Technocalyps", describes the various ideas and prediction about the future technologies and how it would affect us. Divided into three parts, it begins with exploring the ideas how would technology change the human race physically thus evolving us into "Transhumans" which is the name of the first part. In the second part, "Preparing for Singularity" it explores the idea of Rai Kurzweil's singularity, a fascinating prediction of the near-future where the amount of new information created in a unit of time approaches infinity...which brings us to "The digital Messiah", the last part of this series describing the appearance of a godlike artificial intelligence.

Dark energy rules the universe

The revolutionary discovery that the expansion of the universe is speeding up, not slowing down from gravity, means that 75 percent of our universe consists of mysterious dark energy. Berkeley Lab theoretical physicist Eric Linder delves into the mystery of dark energy as part of the Science in the Theatre lecture series on Nov. 24, 2008.

Very fast paced lecture, covering a lot of information very quickly, however nicely presented so it's not too difficult to follow. Recommended for anyone interested in astronomy.

Richard Dawkins: Growing up in the universe

Oxford professor Richard Dawkins presents a series of lectures on life, the universe, and our place in it. With brilliance and clarity, Dawkins unravels an educational gem that will mesmerize young and old alike. Illuminating demonstrations, wildlife, virtual reality, and special guests (including Douglas Adams) all combine to make this collection a timeless classic.

Building Gods

Is it possible to construct an artificial intelligence? If it is, how far away is it? A truly thought-provoking documentary about the advancements in robotics, cybernetics and AI presented by four people, each having a different viewpoint. In the movie itself they are presented as a philosopher, a brain builder, a "cyborg" and a theologian. All of those viewpoints are very interesting but what really surprised me was a theologian's point that Abrahamic religions should not be in conflict with the hypothetical artificial life.

Kevin Kelly TED Technology

This is a short talk from TED given by Kevin Kelly. It's an interesting presentation of what technology is in a philosophical sense, displaying it not only as human technology meaning the things or ideas that our civilization invented but more as a natural process that has become the extension of life. I'm not really certain what to think about some thing Kelly mentions here, like connecting the climate changes to the first appearance of man made technology thousands of years ago, however, it beautifully illustrates the irrationality of the fear of technology which makes it is so common in our society to confuse wrong uses of technology for the technology itself, often at the expense of scientific progress.