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1.
Genius of Britain: The Scientists Who Changed the World (2010)
Episode:
Out of the Darkness
(2010)
48 min | Documentary
In the face of war, courage can manifest itself in myriad ways. From the invention of radar to fend of Luftwaffe attacks to the sheer genius that drove wartime codebreaking, the British ... See full summary »
Directors: Christopher Sykes, Jonathan Rudd | Stars: Jim Al-Khalili, Richard Dawkins, James Dyson, Stephen Hawking
Votes: 7
2. The Astronomers (1991– )
57 min | Documentary
A look at the work and worlds of leading scientists and astronomers who are helping to unlock the mysteries of the universe.
Stars: Heather Couper, Vera C. Rubin, Tony Tyson, John Lowry Dobson
Votes: 57
3.
Genius of Britain: The Scientists Who Changed the World (2010)
Episode:
A Roomful of Brilliant Minds
(2010)
48 min | Documentary
A second generation of British scientists includes the son of a boat builder, a charismatic risk-taker, an unsung botanist pioneer, and the visionary who kick-started the Industrial Revolution by perfecting the steam engine.
Directors: Christopher Sykes, Jonathan Rudd | Stars: Jim Al-Khalili, Richard Dawkins, James Dyson, Stephen Hawking
Votes: 8
4. Beyond the Horizon (2009)
Documentary, Drama
Olivia is a twenty-something reporter assigned to the religion beat for the London Times. She is on deadline to write a feature story about cosmology and the meaning of existence on the ... See full summary »
Director: Bruce Neibaur | Stars: Stephen Hawking, Lina Patel, Josie Gammell
Votes: 50
5.
StarTalk (2015– )
Episode:
Stephen Hawking
(2018)
TV-PG | 47 min | Talk-Show
Host Neil deGrasse Tyson features his interview with world-renowned physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking. Tyson is joined in the Hall of the Universe by comedian co-host Matt Kirshen, ... See full summary »
Director: Jaron Berman | Stars: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Matt Kirshen, Janna Levin, Stephen Hawking
Votes: 30
6.
Genius of Britain: The Scientists Who Changed the World (2010)
Episode:
Asking Big Questions
(2010)
46 min | Documentary
Recent advances probing the secrets of DNA, human nature, and nanotechnology are explored, and Stephen Hawking and Richard Dawkins have a thought-provoking exchange about the future that faces us all.
Directors: Michael Waterhouse, Jonathan Rudd | Stars: Jim Al-Khalili, Richard Dawkins, James Dyson, Stephen Hawking
Votes: 8
7. How the Universe Works (2010– )
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary
A users guide to the cosmos from the big bang to galaxies, stars, planets and moons. Where did it all come from and how does it all fit together. A primer for anyone who has ever looked up at the night sky and wondered.
Stars: Phil Plait, Michelle Thaller, Richard Lintern, Mike Rowe
Votes: 7,253
8.
Genius of Britain: The Scientists Who Changed the World (2010)
Episode:
The Lights Come On
(2010)
48 min | Documentary
Science came of age by the early 19th century, propelling Britain to the future with communications delivered at the tap of a finger, electrical power and light conjured from trial and ... See full summary »
Directors: Robert Bee, Jonathan Rudd | Stars: Jim Al-Khalili, Richard Dawkins, James Dyson, Stephen Hawking
Votes: 9
9. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (2014– )
TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy, News, Talk-Show
Former Daily Show host and correspondent John Oliver brings his persona to this weekly news satire program.
Stars: John Oliver, David Kaye, Ryan Barger, Noel MacNeal
Votes: 95,873
10. Jaguar Stephen Hawking James Bond Style Villain Television Commercial (2016 Video)
1 min | Short, Adventure, Thriller
Stars: Stephen Hawking, Luke Allen-Gale
Votes: 12
11.
Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking (2010)
Episode:
The Story of Everything
(2010)
TV-PG | 88 min | Documentary
In two mind-blowing hours, Hawking reveals the wonders of the cosmos to a new generation. Delve into the mind of the world's most famous living scientist and reveal the splendor and majesty... See full summary »
Director: Iain Riddick | Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Melissa Ricci, Phoebe Haines, Simon Haines
Votes: 349
12.
PewDiePie (2010– )
Episode:
YouTube Rewind 2018 but it's actually good
(2018)
TV-PG | 6 min | Comedy, Talk-Show
PewDiePie's attempt at a better YouTube Rewind 2018.
Director: Felix Kjellberg | Stars: Felix Kjellberg, Tyler Blevins, Shane Dawson, Mark Fischbach
Votes: 67
13. The Simpsons (1989– )
TV-14 | 22 min | Animation, Comedy
The satiric adventures of a working-class family in the misfit city of Springfield.
Stars: Dan Castellaneta, Nancy Cartwright, Harry Shearer, Julie Kavner
Votes: 436,477
14. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Set almost 100 years after Captain Kirk's 5-year mission, a new generation of Starfleet officers sets off in the U.S.S. Enterprise-D on its own mission to go where no one has gone before.
Stars: Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton
Votes: 136,332
15. Horizon (I) (1964– )
50 min | Documentary
British documentary series that covers a variety of subjects in science and philosophy.
Stars: Paul Vaughan, Jack Fortune, Dilly Barlow, Colin Riach
Votes: 1,149
16. Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time (2019)
TV-PG | 29 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
View what the modern science points to what the future looks like from the present year all the way to trillions upon trillions of years into the future.
Director: John D. Boswell | Stars: David Attenborough, Sean Carroll, Craig Childs, Brian Cox
Votes: 454
17. Visions of Heaven and Hell (1994– )
52 min | Documentary
Dennis Potter, Esther Dyson, William Gibson and other techno-thinkers appeared in this award-winning three-part documentary series which examined social changes brought about by new ... See full summary »
Stars: Tilda Swinton, Stephen Hawking, David Byrne, Douglas Adams
Votes: 35
18. Futurama (1999– )
TV-14 | 22 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Philip J. Fry, a pizza delivery boy, is accidentally frozen in 1999 and thawed out on New Year's Eve 2999.
Stars: Billy West, John DiMaggio, Katey Sagal, Tress MacNeille
Votes: 261,286
19. Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking (2010)
88 min | Documentary
In this comprehensive cosmology series Stephen Hawking looks at the entire universe, from the Big Bang to the end of time.
Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Stephen Hawking, Melissa Ricci, Christopher Goh
Votes: 5,550
20. The Challenge of Quantum Reality (2009 Video)
60 min | Documentary, History
Explores wave-particle duality: the mind-bending notion that electrons can be two completely different things - waves and particles.
Director: Peter Conrad | Stars: Aris Athanasopoulos, Madeline Base-Bursey, Akia Munga, Markus Arndt
Votes: 15
21. Last Light of Orion (2017)
Sci-Fi
Last Light of Orion. Emotional Sci/Fi, Drama.
Director: Troy Pearce | Stars: Andrew Sloey, Alexis Johnson, Jason Tobias, Susan Bennett
Votes: 14
22. Bioperfection: Building a New Human Race (1998 TV Movie)
120 min | Sci-Fi
The world's greatest scientific minds discuss distant future technologies that will affect human anatomy and evolution.
Director: John Jopson | Stars: Stephen Hawking, Michio Kaku, Garry Kasparov, Mark Pauline
Votes: 10
23.
Futurama (1999– )
Episode:
Anthology of Interest I
(2000)
TV-14 | 23 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
The Professor's "What If" machine answers four questions.
Directors: Chris Loudon, Bret Haaland, Rich Moore | Stars: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Tress MacNeille
Votes: 3,093
24.
The Big Bang Theory (2007–2019)
Episode:
The Hawking Excitation
(2012)
TV-PG | 19 min | Comedy, Romance
Sheldon uses any and all means to meet his hero, Dr. Stephen Hawking.
Director: Mark Cendrowski | Stars: Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Simon Helberg
Votes: 4,191
25.
Brave New World with Stephen Hawking (2011– )
Episode:
Machines
(2012)
Documentary
This episode explores the new generation of machines. Mark Evans fuses his brain with a computer to test a new breed of machine while Kathy Sykes hits the streets of San Francisco in a driverless car.
Stars: Mark Evans, Stephen Hawking, Kathy Sykes
Votes: 8
26.
Brave New World with Stephen Hawking (2011– )
Episode:
Biology
(2011)
46 min | Documentary
The experts unearth the amazing breakthroughs transforming the resilience and strength of the human body, including the possibility of humans regenerating their own hearts.
Stars: Maggie Aderin-Pocock, David Attenborough, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking
Votes: 9
27. The Sky at Night (1957– )
20 min | Documentary
Astronomy programme.
Stars: Patrick Moore, Chris Lintott, Pete Lawrence, Maggie Aderin-Pocock
Votes: 365
28. Red Dwarf A-Z (1998 TV Movie)
30 min | Comedy
An alphabet-based compilation of clips from Red Dwarf (1988) with celebrities discussing their favorite characters and moments.
Director: Ed Bye | Stars: Chloë Annett, Chris Barrie, Garry Bushell, Craig Charles
Votes: 85
29. Stephen Hawking's Favorite Places (2016)
Not Rated | 26 min | Documentary
Commander Stephen Hawking pilots his space ship the SS Hawking on the journey of a lifetime, zooming from black holes to the Big Bang, Saturn to Santa Barbara. After all, why should astronauts have all the fun?
Star: Stephen Hawking
Votes: 144
30. CERN, or The Factory for the Absolute (2010)
58 min | Documentary
Documentary film about the Large Hadron Collider in the world (LHC), which is located under the French - Swiss border.
Director: Jan V. Sacher | Stars: Niels Bohr, Richard Feynman, Donald A. Glaser, Stephen Hawking
Votes: 14
31.
Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking (2010)
Episode:
Time Travel
(2010)
TV-PG | 43 min | Documentary
The promise of time travel has long been one of the world's favorite scientific "what-ifs?" Hawking explores all the possibilities, warping the very fabric of time and space as he goes. ... See full summary »
Director: Nathan Williams | Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Christopher Goh, Stephen Hawking, Leon Mitchell
Votes: 291
32. Stephen Hawking's Universe (1997– )
Not Rated | 360 min | Documentary
6-part documentary series from arguably the greatest scientific mind in the world, the wheelchair-bound Stephen Hawking, which describes all current thinking on the Big Bang, origins of the... See full summary »
Stars: Stephen Hawking, Jeff Rawle, Eugene Babaev, Frank Langella
Votes: 1,047
33. Stephen Hawking's Grand Design (2012)
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary
In this documentary, Stephen Hawking tries to explain what science can tell us about the meaning of life through physics, philosophical discussion,and Hawking's own unique scientific ... See full summary »
Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Stephen Hawking, Bill Hutchens, Tom Bonington
Votes: 1,439
34. Brave New World with Stephen Hawking (2011– )
46 min | Documentary
These machines will completely transform the way we live. Be whisked into the future in a driverless car, then watch as motorized artificial limbs transform paraplegics into pedestrians--and average humans into bionic miracles.
Stars: Stephen Hawking, Kathy Sykes, David Attenborough, Richard Dawkins
Votes: 144
35. TV Offal (1997–1998)
30 min | Comedy
Comedian Victor Lewis-Smith presents an alternative view of the world. Archive and news footage are re-dubbed with new commentaries, taking them completely out of context, in order to make ... See full summary »
Stars: Victor Lewis-Smith, Stephen Hawking, Redvers Kyle
Votes: 65
36. The Making of 'A Brief History of Time' (1992 TV Movie)
26 min | Documentary
Director: Edmund Coulthard | Stars: Ted Bafaloukos, Randall Balsmeyer, Philip Glass, Stephen Hawking
Votes: 15
37.
Stephen Hawking's Grand Design (2012)
Episode:
Did God Create the Universe?
(2012)
TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary
Hawking unfolds his personal, compelling vision of the biggest question of all: Is there a god who created and controls the universe in which we live? To answer this controversial and age ... See full summary »
Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Gary Green, Stephen Hawking
Votes: 118
38.
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (2014– )
Episode:
Immigration Reform
(2014)
TV-MA | 29 min | Comedy, News, Talk-Show
John discusses immigration, the Washington Redskins and Iraq and talks to Stephen Hawking.
Director: Joe Perota | Stars: John Oliver, Stephen Hawking, David Kaye, André Sogliuzzo
Votes: 358
39. Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993–2009)
TV-14 | 60 min | Comedy, Music, Talk-Show
Conan O'Brien, a Harvard Lampoon alumnus, hosts this late-night comedy/talk-show, which is often silly and whimsical.
Stars: Conan O'Brien, The Max Weinberg 7, Andy Richter, Joel Godard
Votes: 18,978
40. Great Composers (1997– )
Documentary, Music
Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Georg Solti, Charles Rosen, Zuzana Parmova
Votes: 46
41. Creation of the Universe (1985 TV Movie)
92 min | Documentary
Trip through the creation of the Universe from the Bog Bang to the frontiers of science. Musical score from Brian Eno. Includes visits with great thinkers.
Stars: Timothy Ferris, Bob Elliott, Murray Gell-Mann, Ray Goulding
Votes: 90
42. Genius of Britain: The Scientists Who Changed the World (2010)
Documentary
Charismatic men of action and reclusive eccentrics. Eureka moments and serendipitous strokes of luck. Discoveries born of crisis and insatiable curiosity. The history of scientific progress... See full summary »
Stars: Jim Al-Khalili, Richard Dawkins, James Dyson, Stephen Hawking
Votes: 159
43. Destination Mars (2015– )
Not Rated | Documentary
How will humans take the next step into outer space - traveling to Mars not to visit, but to stay?
Stars: Seth Shostak, Sophie Cartman, Tom Butterworth, Bas Lansdorp
Votes: 17
44. Stephen Hawking's Science of the Future (2014– )
Documentary
Stars: Stephen Hawking, Jim Al-Khalili, Carin Bondar, Aarathi Prasad
Votes: 57
45.
Curiosity (2011–2014)
Episode:
Did God Create the Universe?
(2011)
TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary
Are the earliest moments of existence a question for science? Or religion? The world's most famous living scientist takes on the ultimate question: Did god create the universe?
Stars: Stephen Hawking, Benedict Cumberbatch, Chad A. Fehr
Votes: 236
46.
Stephen Hawking: Master of the Universe (2008)
Episode:
Episode #1.1
(2008)
44 min | Documentary
Director: Gary Johnstone | Stars: Judith Croasdell, Albert Einstein, Pedro Ferreira, Stephen Hawking
Votes: 13
47.
Stephen Hawking: Master of the Universe (2008)
Episode:
Episode #1.2
(2008)
44 min | Documentary
Director: Gary Johnstone | Stars: Sam Blackburn, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Judith Croasdell
Votes: 13
48.
Stephen Hawking's Grand Design (2012)
Episode:
The Meaning of Life
(2012)
TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary
Hawking tackles the question: Is there a meaning to life? Is there a purpose to our existence? Hawking explores this fascinating territory with fearless zeal as he questions the very nature... See full summary »
Director: Matthew Huntley | Stars: Funke Adeleke, Tom Bonington, Benedict Cumberbatch, Stephen Hawking
Votes: 110
49.
Stephen Hawking's Grand Design (2012)
Episode:
The Key to the Cosmos
(2012)
TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary
Hawking poses the ultimate of ultimate questions: Why does the universe exist and why does it follow rules and laws? Finding out leads to the very deepest of secrets, to the one principle ... See full summary »
Director: Dan Clifton | Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Stephen Hawking, Bill Hutchens, Jermaine Liburd
Votes: 82
50.
Stephen Hawking's Science of the Future (2014– )
Episode:
Designer Human
(2014)
Documentary
A look at how breakthroughs in technology are being applied to humans, not only for more effective repairs, but also for upgrading the brain.
Star: Stephen Hawking
Votes: 9