The 16 Best Science Documentaries

16 documentaries

Discoveries, experiments and the people behind them.

Science documentaries that feel like thrillers. Apollo 11 is built entirely from footage nobody had seen, and Three Identical Strangers starts as a feel-good story before it turns into something else. The Farthest makes the Voyager probes genuinely moving.

Apollo 11 poster

1

Apollo 11

2019 · 1h 33m

8.199%

Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey poster

2

Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

2014 · 26 eps

9.2

Three Identical Strangers poster

3

Three Identical Strangers

2018 · 1h 37m

7.696%

The Farthest poster

4

The Farthest

2017 · 2h 1m

8.1100%

For All Mankind poster

5

For All Mankind

1989 · 1h 20m

8.195%

In the Shadow of the Moon poster

6

In the Shadow of the Moon

2007 · 1h 49m

8.095%

Human Nature poster

7

Human Nature

2019 · 1h 47m

7.797%

Fire of Love poster

8

Fire of Love

2022 · 1h 34m

7.698%

Into Eternity poster

9

Into Eternity

2010 · 1h 15m

7.3100%

Project Nim poster

10

Project Nim

2011 · 1h 33m

7.497%

Particle Fever poster

11

Particle Fever

2013 · 1h 39m

7.496%

Cave of Forgotten Dreams poster

12

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

2010 · 1h 30m

7.496%

A Brief History of Time poster

13

A Brief History of Time

1991 · 1h 20m

7.395%

Good Night Oppy poster

14

Good Night Oppy

2022 · 1h 45m

7.787%

Challenger: The Final Flight poster

15

Challenger: The Final Flight

2020 · 4 eps

7.8

Quiet Rage: The Stanford Prison Study poster

16

Quiet Rage: The Stanford Prison Study

1992 · 50m

6.7

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