History of Science

Join in, as famed BBC presenter and professor Jim Al-Khalili unlocks the history of energy manipulation and information technology - the two most important concepts of the human modern age.

The Saturn V Story shows the history behind the space technology invented to get to outer space and getting a man on the moon in 1969.

Geologist Iain Stewart retraces the lives of scientist and geologists who reshaped our geological world view.

In a three-part science documentary series Jim Al-Khalili chronicles the story behind atoms, and the brilliant minds who studied it.

Where does mathematics get its power? The Great Math Mystery explores math and its many discoveries across the ages.

Prof. Jim Al-Khalili tells the story of light and darkness in terms of their astronomic importance, and their role in our understanding of the universe.

This educational biography of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace tells the story of two independent discoveries of the natural origin of species: the Theory of Evolution.