History of Science

Professor Jim Al-Khalili explores the history and science of electricity throughout this three-part documentary series.

Is there an ultimate formula, a mathematical equation, to make sense of our universe? Join the scientists unravelling the mystery.

Follow the story of scientists throughout history as they work towards understanding cold and conquering absolute zero.

Physicist Jim al-Khalili unveils the history of islamic science and how it has played a crucial role in modern inventions.

Jim Al-Khalili tackles two of the hardest questions our universe has to offer: What is everything, and what is nothing?

Journey through time with professor Simon Schafer as we explore the bizarre and untold history of androids and automata.

Jim Al-Khalili explores the scientific theories as to how our universe began and how it will end.

Set in a stunning 4k resolution, Apollo's New Moon takes a look at the science we've learned from the Apollo lunar program.

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.