BOOKS

TV  &  MOVIES

Return to Main List

'Science Matters'
Achieving Scientific Literacy

Robert M Hazen, James Trefil

'The Unnatural Nature of Science'
Why Science Does Not Make
(Common) Sense

Lewis Wolpert

'Unravelling the Mind of God'
Mysteries at the Frontier of Science

Robert Matthews

'Borderlands of Science'

Charles Sheffield

'Calculated Risks'
How to Know when Numbers Deceive You

Gerd Gigerenzer

'Conceptual Physics'

Paul G. Hewitt

'The Elegant Universe'
Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and
the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

Brian Greene

'The Fabric of the Cosmos'

Brian Greene

'Our Cosmic Habitat'

Martin Rees

'How The Universe Got Its Spots'
Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space

Jana Levin

'The Natural History of the Universe'
From the Big Bang to the End of Time

Colin A. Ronan

'To the Ends of the Universe'
A Voyage through Life, Space and Time

Heather Couper & Nigel Henbest

'Strange Universe'
The Weird and Wild Science of
Everyday Life — on Earth and Beyond

Bob Berman

'The Universe Next Door'
Twelve Mind-Blowing Ideas from
the Cutting Edge of Science

Marcus Chown

'The Whole Shebang'
A State of the Universe(s) Report

Timothy Ferris

'Time'
A Traveler's Guide

Clifford A. Pickover

'A Brief History of Time'
From the Big Bang to Black Holes

Stephen Hawking

'The Search for Infinity'
The Mysteries of the Universe

Gordon Fraser, Egil Lillestol, Inge Sellevag

'Creation Revisited'
The Origin of Space, Time
and the Universe

Peter Atkins

'The Naked Ape'
A Zoologist's Study of
the Human Animal

Desmond Morris

'The Blind Watchmaker'
Why the Evidence of Evolution
Reveals a Universe without Design

Richard Dawkins

'The Selfish Gene'

Richard Dawkins

'A Devil's Chaplain'
Reflections on Hope,
Lies, Science, and Love

Richard Dawkins

'River Out of Eden'
A Darwinian View of Life

Richard Dawkins

'Evolution vs. Creationism'
An Introduction

Eugenie C. Scott

'The Counter-Creationism Handbook'

Mark Isaak

'The Rise and Fall of the
Third Chimpanzee'
How Our Animal Heritage
Affects the Way We live

Jared Diamond

'Darwin's Dangerous Idea'
Evolution and the
Meaning of Life

Daniel C. Dennett

'The Physics of Star Trek'

Lawrence M. Krauss

'Beyond Star Trek'
Physics from Alien Invasions
to the End of Time

Lawrence M. Krauss

'The Biology of Star Trek'

Robert Jenkins & Susan Jenkins

'To Seek Out New Life'
The Biology of Star Trek

Athena Andreadis

'The Computers of Star Trek'

Lois Gresh & Robert Weinberg

'The First Three Minutes'
A Modern View of the
Origin of the Universe
(2nd Ed — 1993)

Steven Weinberg

'The Science of Discworld'

Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen

'The Science of Discworld II'
The Globe

Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen

'The Science of Discworld III'
Darwin's Watch

Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen

'The Science of Harry Potter'
How Magic Really Works

Roger Highfield

'The Science of Star Wars'
An Astrophysicist's Independent Examination
of Space Travel, Aliens, Planets, and Robots
as Portrayed in the Star Wars films

Jeanne Cavelos

'The Science of Superheroes'

Lois Gresh & Robert Weinberg

'The Real Science Behind The X-Files'
Microbes, Meteorites, and Mutants

Anne Simon

'A Teaspoon and an Open Mind'
The Science of Doctor Who

Michael White

'How to Clone the Perfect Blonde'
Making Fantasies come True
with Cutting-edge Science

Sue Nelson & Richard Hollingham

'In Our Own Image'
Building an Artificial Person

Maureen Caudill

'Hyperspace'
The Scientific Odyssey through
Parallel Universes, Time Warps
and the 10th Dimension

Michio Kaku

'Big Questions in Science'

Edited by Harriet Swain

'Secrets of Science'
Exciting, Unbelievable, Incredible
and All True

Graham Phillips

'The Search for
Extraterrestrial Intelligence'

Edward Ashpole

'Evolving the Alien'
The Science of Extraterrestrial Life

Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart

'Life Out There'
The Truth of — and Search for —
Extraterrestrial Life

Michael White

'Sharing the Universe'
The Quest for Extraterrestrial Life

Seth Shostak

'The Search for
Extraterrestrial Intelligence'
A Philosophical Inquiry

David Lamb

'In Search of the Big Bang'
Quantum Physics and Cosmology

John Gribbin

'In Search of the Double Helix'
Quantum Physics and Life

John Gribbin

'In Search of Schrodinger's Cat'
Quantum Physics and Reality

John Gribbin

'In Search of the Edge of Time'
The Definitive Account of the Science
of Time, Time Travel and Time Machines

John Gribbin

'What Makes You Tick?'
The Brain in Plain English

Thomas B. Czerner

'The Human Brain'
A Guided Tour

Susan Greenfield

'The Blank Slate'
The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Steven Pinker

'Billions and Billions'
Thoughts on Life and Death
at the Brink of the Millennium

Carl Sagan

'Remaking Eden'
Cloning, Genetic Engineering
and the Future of Humankind?

Lee M Silver

'Perfect Copy'
Unravelling the Cloning Debate

Nicholas Agar

'A Consumer's Guide to GM Food'
From Green Genes to Red Herrings

Alan McHughen

'Improving Nature?'
The Science and Ethics of Genetic Engineering

Michael J Reiss & Roger Straughan

'Genetic Engineering'
Dreams and Nightmares

Enzo Russo, David Cove

'The Last Mortal Generation'

Damien Broderick

'Immortality'
How Science is Extending your Lifespan
and Changing the World

Ben Bova

'Profiles of the Future'
An Inquiry Into the Limits of the Possible

Arthur C. Clarke

'Yes, We Have No Neutrons'
An Eye-Opening Tour through the
Twists and Turns of Bad Science

A. K. Dewdney

'Genome'
The Autobiography of a Species
in 23 Chapters

Matt Ridley

'Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors'

Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan

'Paradigms Regained'
A Further Exploration of the
Mysteries of Modern Science

John L. Casti

'Planetary Dreams'
The Quest to Discover Life Beyond Earth

Robert Shapiro

'A Little Knowledge ...'
A World of Ideas from Archimedes
to Einstein Clearly Explained

Michael Macrone

'The Theory of Almost Everything'
The Standard Model, the Unsung
Triumph of Modern Physics

Robert Oerter

'If A Lion Could Talk'
Animal Intelligence and the
Evolution of Consciousness

Stephen Budiansky

'The Universe and the Teacup'
The Mathematics of Truth and Beauty

K C Cole

'Why is Uranus Upside Down?'
And Other Questions about the Universe

Fred Watson

'Leonardo da Vinci'
The First Scientist

Michael White

'Galileo'
A Life

James Reston, Jr

'Isaac Newton'
The Last Sorcerer

Michael White

'Galileo's Daughter'
A Drama of Science, Faith and Love

Dava Sobel

'The Eerie Silence'
Are We Alone in the Universe?

Paul Davies

'A Short History of Nearly Everything'

Bill Bryson

'Emotion'
The Science of Sentiment

Dylan Evans

'The Planets'

Dava Sobel

'The Seven Daughters of Eve'
The Science that Reveals
our Genetic Ancestry

Bryan Sykes

'Adam's Curse'
A Future Without Men

Bryan Sykes

'Genes and Future People'
Philosophical Issues in Human Genetics

Walter Glannon

'Kluge'
The Haphazard Constuction
of the Human Mind

Gary Marcus

'The Origins of Virtue'

Matt Ridley

'The Moral Landscape'
How Science Can Determine
Human Values

Sam Harris

E=mc²
A Biography of the World's
Most Famous Equation

David Bodanis

'Unravelling Genes'
A Layperson's Guide to
Genetic E ngineering

Mark Walker & David McKay

'The Second Creation'
The Age of Biological Control by
the Scientists Who Cloned Dolly

Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell, Colin Tudge

'Absolutely Fabulous Moments
in Science'

Karl Kruszelnicki

'How to Fossilise Your Hamster'
And Other Amazing Experiments
for the Armchair Scientist

New Scientist

'Please Explain'
The Myriad Mysteries of
the Universe Revealed
(1973 — Outdated in places
but still interesting)

Isaac Asimov

'Written in Stone'
The Hidden Secret of Fossils
and the Story of Life on Earth

Brian Switek

'Virus Ground Zero'
Stalking the Killer Viruses with
the Centers for Disease Control

Ed Regis

'Lost Discoveries'
The Ancient Roots of Modern Science
— from the Babylonians to the Maya

Dick Teresi

'Boffinology'
The Real Stories Behind Our
Greatest Scientific Discoveries

Justin Pollard

'Stepping Through the Stargate'
Science, Archaeology and the
Military in Stargate SG-1

Edited by P. N. Elrod, Roxanne Conrad

'As Far As We Know'
Conversations About Science,
Life and the Universe

Paul Callaghan and Kim Hill

'Physics of the Impossible'
A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers,
Force Fields, Teleportation and Time Travel

Michio Kaku

'Rare Earth'
Why Complex Life Is
Uncommon in the Universe

Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee

'The Grand Design'
New Answers to the Ultimate Questions of Life

Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow

'Pale Blue Dot'
A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Carl Sagan

'The Serpent's Promise'
The Bible Retold as Science

Steve Jones

'Warped Passages'
Unraveling the Mysteries of the
Universe's Hidden Dimensions

Lisa Randall

'Just Six Numbers'
The Deep Forces that Shape the Universe

Martin Rees

'Big Bang'
The Origin of the Universe

Simon Singh

'Out of Eden'
The Peopling of the World

Stephen Oppenheimer

'Beyond UFOs'
The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Its
Astonishing Implications for Our Future

Jeffrey Bennett

'Woman'
An Intimate Geography

Natalie Angier

'What if the Moon Didn't Exist'
Voyages to Earths That
Might Have Been

Neil F. Comins

'Death by Black Hole'
And Other Cosmic Quandaries

Neil deGrasse Tyson

'Climbing Mount Improbable'

Richard Dawkins

'Knocking on Heaven’s Door'
How Physics and Scientific Thinking
Illuminate the Universe and the
Modern World

Lisa Randall

'The Moon'
A Biography

David Whitehouse

'The Invasion of the Moon 1969'
The Story of Apollo 11

Peter Ryan

'Why Aren't They Here?'
The Question of Life on Other Worlds

Surendra Verma

'The Science of Interstellar'

Kip Thorne

'Uncentering the Earth'
Copernicus and On the Revolution
of the Heavenly Spheres

William T Vollmann

'The Physics of Christmas'
From the Aerodynamics of Reindeer
to the Thermodynamics of Turkey

Roger Highfield

'Born in Africa'
The Quest for the Origins
of Human Life

Martin Meredith

'The Complete Idiot's Guide
to Human Prehistory'

Robert J. Meier

'A Shortcut Through Time'
The Path to the
Quantum Computer

George Johnson

'Alien Universe'
Extraterrestrial Life in Our
Minds and in the Cosmos

Don Lincoln

'The Prehistoric Boy-Racer Gene'
And other Tales from
Modern Science

Bob Brockie

'Origins Reconsidered'
In Search of What
Makes Us Human

Richard Leakey & Roger Lewin

'The Neandertal Enigma'
Solving the Mystery of
Modern Human Origins

James Shreeve

'The New Universe
and the Human Future'
How a Shared Cosmology
Could Transform the World

Nancy Ellen Abrams and
Joel R. Primack

'What If You Could
Unscramble an Egg?'

Robert Ehrlich

'On Being'
A Scientist's Exploration of the
Great Questions of Existence

Peter Atkins

'Walking Zero'
Discovering Cosmic Space and
Time along the Prime Meridian

Chet Raymo

'Parallel Worlds'
A Journey Through Creation, Higher
Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos

Michio Kaku

'The Science of Avatar'

Stephen Baxter

'What's Science Ever Done For Us?'
What The Simpsons Can Teach
Us About Physics, Robots,
Life, and the Universe

Paul Halpern

'Death From the Skies!'
These Are the Ways
the World Will End

Philip Plait

'Confessions of an Alien Hunter'
A Scientist's Search for
Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Seth Shostak

'Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics'
Hollywood's Best Mistakes, Goofs
and Flat-Out Destructions of the
Basic Laws of the Universe

Tom Rogers

'Longitude'
The True Story of a Lone Genius
Who Solved the Greatest Scientific
Problem of his Time

Dava Sobel

'The Science of TV's
The Big Bang Theory'
Explanations Even Penny
Would Understand

Dave Zobel

'The Science of
Battlestar Galactica'

Patrick Di Justo
and Kevin Grazier

'Bad Ideas?'
An Arresting History
of Our Inventions

Robert Winston

'Hollyweird Science'
From Quantum Quirks
to the Multiverse

Kevin R. Grazier and
Stephen Cass

'Hollyweird Science'
The Next Generation:
From Spaceships to Microchips

Kevin R. Grazier and
Stephen Cass

'The Secret Life of Dust'
From the Cosmos to the Kitchen Counter,
the Big Consequences of Little Things

Hannah Holmes

'Dreaming'
An Introduction to the
Science of Sleep

J. Allan Hobson

'What If?'
Serious Scientific Answers to
Absurd Hypothetical Questions

Randall Munroe

'Q & A'
Cosmic Conundrums and
Everyday Mysteries of Science

Robert Matthews

'The Greatest Show on Earth'
The Evidence for Evolution

Richard Dawkins

'The Scientific Secrets
of Doctor Who'

Simon Guerrier and
Dr Marek Kukula

'The Particle at the End of the Universe'
How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson
Leads Us to the Edge of a New World

Sean Carroll

'Higgs Discovery'
The Power of Empty Space

Lisa Randall

'Why is Sex Fun?'
The Evolution of Human Sexuality

Jared Diamond

'If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens
... Where Is Everybody?'
Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox
and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life

Stephen Webb

'A More Perfect Heaven'
How Copernicus Revolutionised
the Cosmos

Dava Sobel

'How To Think Like a Neandertal'

Thomas Wynn and
Frederick L. Coolidge

'Water From Heaven'
The Story of Water from the Big Bang
to the Rise of Civilization, and Beyond

Robert Kandel

'The Truth About Santa'
Wormholes, Robots, and What
Really Happens on Christmas Eve

Gregory Mone

'The Big Picture'
On the Origins of Life, Meaning,
and the Universe Itself

Sean Carroll

'The Realization of Star Trek Technologies'
The Science, Not Fiction, Behind
Brain Implants, Plasma Shields,
Quantum Computing, and More

Mark E. Lasbury

'It's Not Rocket Science'
Discover the Surprisingly Simple Ideas
Behind the Most Exciting Bits of Science

Ben Miller

'Stiff'
The Curious Lives
of Human Cadavers

Mary Roach

'The Never-Ending Days of Being Dead'
Dispatches from the
Front Line of Science

Marcus Chown

'Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That?'
And Other Reflections
on Being Human

Jesse Bering

'Deadly Companions'
How Microbes Shaped Our History

Dorothy H. Crawford

'Why Nothing Can Travel Faster Than Light'
And Other Scientific Curiosities

Barry E. Zimmerman and
David J. Zimmerman

'The Dawn of Human Culture'
A Bold New Theory on What Sparked
the "Big Bang" of Human Consciousness

Richard G. Klein with Blake Edgar

'Why the Toast Always Lands
Butter Side Down'
The Science of Murphy's Law

Richard Robinson

'The Earth After Us'
What Legacy Will Humans
Leave in the Rocks?

Jan Zalasiewicz

'The Fever'
How Malaria has Ruled Humankind
for 500,000 Years

Sonia Shah

'The Physics and Astronomy of Science Fiction'
Understanding Interstellar Travel,
Teleportation, Time Travel, Alien Life
and Other Genre Fixtures

Steven D. Bloom

'Humans'
An Unauthorized Biography

Claudio Tuniz and Patrizia Tiberi Vipraio

'Science(ish)'
The Peculiar Science Behind the Movies

Rick Edwards and Michael Brooks

'And Then You're Dead'
What Really Happens If You Get Swallowed
by a Whale, Are Shot from a Cannon, or
Go Barreling over Niagara...

Cody Cassidy and Paul Doherty

'My Beloved Brontosaurus'
On the Road with Old Bones,
New Science, and Our
Favorite Dinosaurs

Brian Switek

'Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs'
The Astounding Interconnectedness
of the Universe

Lisa Randall

'The Universe Inside You'
The Extreme Science of the Human Body from Quantum Theory to the Mysteries of the Brain

Brian Clegg

'Murmurs of Earth'
The Voyager Interstellar Record

Carl Sagan, F. D. Drake, Ann Druyan,
Timothy Ferris, Jon Lomberg,
Linda Salzman Sagan

'Films from the Future'
The Technology and Morality
of Sci-Fi Movies

Andrew Maynard

'The Science of Science Fiction'
The Influence of Film and Fiction on
the Science and Culture of Our Times

Mark Brake

'The Cartoon History of Time'

Kate Charlesworth and John Gribbin

'Feeding the Fire'
The Lost History & Uncertain Future
of Mankind's Energy Addiction

Mark E. Eberhart

'The Cartoon Introduction
to Climate Change'

Grady Klein and Yoram Bauman

'The Thinking Person's Guide
to Climate Change'

Robert Henson

'Cranky Uncle vs. Climate Change'
How to Understand and Respond
to Climate Science Deniers

John Cook

'The Physics of Climate Change'

Lawrence M. Krauss

'Nature's Clocks'
How Scientists Measure the
Age of Almost Everything

Doug Macdougall

'A Sense of the Mysterious'
Science and the Human Spirit

Alan Lightman

'Y'
The Descent of Men

Steve Jones

'The Dragons of Eden'
Speculations on the Evolution
of Human Intelligence

Carl Sagan

'The Science of the Big Bang Theory'
What America's Favorite Sitcom
Can Teach You about Physics, Flags,
and the Idiosyncrasies of Scientists

Mark Brake

'The View From the Center of the Universe'
Discovering Our Extraordinary
Place in the Cosmos

Joel R. Primack and
Nancy Ellen Abrams

'The Science of Marvel'
From Infinity Stones to Iron Man's Armor,
the Real Science Behind the MCU Revealed!

Sebastian Alvarado

'Information'
The New Language of Science

Hans Christian von Baeyer

'The Not-So-Intelligent Designer'
Why Evolution Explains the Human Body
and Intelligent Design Does Not

Abby Hafer

'Fantastic Voyages'
Learning Science Through
Science Fiction Films

Leroy W. Dubeck, Suzanne E. Moshier
and Judith E. Boss

'Good Germs, Bad Germs'
Health and Survival
in a Bacterial World

Jessica Snyder Sachs

'The Usborne Illustrated Dictionary of Science'
A Complete Reference Guide to
Physics, Chemistry and Biology

Corinne Stockley, Chris Oxlade, Jane Wertheim

'The Science of Time Travel'
The Secrets Behind Time Machines,
Time Loops, Alternate Realities,
and More!

Elizabeth Howell

'Introducing Time'
A Graphic Guide

Craig Callender and Ralph Edney

'13 Things that Don't Make Sense'
The Most Baffling Scientific
Mysteries of Our Time

Michael Brooks

'Why Do Men Have Nipples?'
Hundreds of Questions You'd Only
Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini

Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg

'The Knowledge'
How to Rebuild Our World
After an Apocalypse

Lewis Dartnell

'How to Invent Everything'
A Survival Guide for the
Stranded Time Traveler

Ryan North

'The Coronavirus Prevention Handbook'
101 Science-Based Tips
That Could Save Your Life

Edited by Wang Zhou, MD

'International Pulmonologist's
Consensus on COVID-19'

Edited by Dr. Tinku Joseph
and Dr. Mohammed Ashkan

'COVID-19'
The Pandemic that Never Should Have
Happened and How to Stop the Next One

Debora MacKenzie

'How Contagion Works'
Science, Awareness, and Community
in Times of Global Crises
The Essay That Helped Change
the Covid-19 Debate

Paolo Giordano

'How to Survive a Pandemic'
Overcoming COVID-19 and Preventing
the Next Deadly Outbreak

Michael Greger

'COVID-19'
What You Need to Know
about the Coronavirus and
the Race for the Vaccine

Michael Mosley

'Science(ish) Presents... Contagion'
The Science of Pandemics

Rick Edwards and Michael Brooks

'The Science of the
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'

Michael Hanlon

'Superspy Science'
Science, Death and Tech in
the World of James Bond

Kathryn Harkup

'Shaken, Not Stirred!'
James Bond in the
Spotlight of Physics

Metin Tolan and
Joachim Stolze

'How to Make a Zombie'
The Real Life (and Death)
Science of Reanimation
and Mind Control

Frank Swain

'The Next Fifty Years'
Science in the First Half
of the Twenty-First Century

Edited by John Brockman

'The Female Brain'

Louann Brizendine

'The Greatest Story Ever Told —
So Far'
Why Are We Here?

Lawrence M. Krauss

'The Science of Orphan Black'
The Official Companion

Casey Griffin and Nina Nesseth

'Blockbuster Science'
The Real Science
in Science Fiction

David Siegel Bernstein

'A Universe From Nothing'
Why there is Something
Rather than Nothing

Lawrence M. Krauss

'In Code'
A Mathematical Journey

Sarah Flannery
with David Flannery

'Edge of the Universe'
A Voyage to the
Cosmic Horizon and Beyond

Paul Halpern

'Anatomies'
A Cultural History of
the Human Body

Hugh Aldersey-Williams

'Treknology'
The Science of Star Trek
from Tricorders to Warp Drive

Ethan Siegel

'Will We Ever Speak Dolphin?'
And 130 Other Science
Questions Answered

New Scientist

'The Contact Paradox'
Challenging our Assumptions
in the Search for
Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Keith Cooper

'Where the Germs Are'
A Scientific Guide to the Microbes
You'll Meet in Everyday Life

Nicholas Bakalar

'The Physics of Star Wars'
The Science Behind a
Galaxy Far, Far Away

Patrick Johnson

'The World Without Us'

Alan Weisman

'Incognito'
The Secret Lives of the Brain

David Eagleman

'In Our Own Image'
Eugenics and the
Genetic Modification of People

David Galton

'The Science of Rick and Morty'
What Earth's Stupidest Show Can Teach Us
About Quantum Physics, Biological Hacking
& Everything Else In Our Universe

Matt Brady

'Quantum Physics, Mini Black Holes,
and the Multiverse'
Debunking Common Misconceptions
in Theoretical Physics

Yasunori Nomura, Bill Poirier, John Terning

'The Essential Guide to Time Travel'
Temporal Anomalies &
Replacement Theory

Mark Joseph Young

'What If…?'
Intriguing Answers for
the Insatiably Curious

Marshall Brain

'Armageddon Science'
The Science of Mass Destruction

Brian Clegg

'Coincidences, Chaos, and
All That Math Jazz'
Making Light of Weighty Ideas

Edward B. Burger & Michael Starbird

'Never Mind the B#ll*cks,
Here's the Science'
A Scientist's Guide to the
Biggest Challenges Facing
Our Species Today

Luke O'Neill

'The Moral Molecule'
The Source of Love
and Prosperity

Paul J. Zak

'The Aliens Are Coming!'
The Extraordinary Science Behind Our
Search for Life in the Universe

Ben Miller

'Extraterrestrial Languages'

Daniel Oberhaus

'The Canon'
The Beautiful Basics of Science

Natalie Angier

'Lightning Often Strikes Twice'
The 50 Biggest Misconceptions
in Science

Brian Clegg

'Does Anything Eat Wasps?'
And 101 Other Questions

New Scientist

'Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?'
And 114 Other Questions

New Scientist

'Hollywood Wants to Kill You'
The Peculiar Science of
Death in the Movies

Rick Edwards and Michael Brooks

'Fringe Science'
Parallel Universes, White Tulips,
and Mad Scientists

Edited by Kevin R. Grazier

'On Intelligence'
How a New Understanding of the
Brain will Lead to the Creation
of Truly Intelligent Machines

Jeff Hawkins
with Sandra Blakeslee

'Endless Forms Most Beautiful'
The New Science of Evo Devo

Sean B. Carroll

'How Much Does the Earth Weight?'
Plus Dozens of Other Engaging
Questions and Answers

Marshall Brain

'What's Next?'
Dispatches on the
Future of Science

Edited by Max Brockman

'Department of Mind-Blowing Theories'
Science Cartoons

Tom Gauld

'What If?'
Interesting Hypothetical Questions
That Will Blow Your Mind

Daniel Hadley

'The Pony Fish's Glow'
And Other Clues to Plan
and Purpose in Nature

George C. Williams

'Fragile Science'
The Reality Behind
the Headlines

Robin Baker

'Where Does the Weirdness Go?'
Why Quantum Mechanics is Strange,
But Not as Strange as You Think

David Lindley

'Naked Science'
Answers the Questions You
Always Wanted to Ask But
Never Got Around to Asking!

Christopher Smith

'Science Wars through the Stargate'
Explorations of Science and
Society in Stargate SG-1

Steven Gil

'Napoleon's Buttons'
How 17 Molecules
Changed History

Penny Le Couteur
& Jay Burreson

'The Science of Game of Thrones'
From the Genetics of Royal Incest to
the Chemistry of Death by Molten Gold —
Sifting Fact from Fantasy in the Seven Kingdoms

Helen Keen

'Fire, Ice, and Physics'
The Science of
Game of Thrones

Rebecca C. Thompson

'Wizards, Aliens, and Starships'
Physics and Math in Fantasy
and Science Fiction

Charles L. Adler

'The Drunkard's Walk'
How Randomness Rules Our Lives

Leonard Mlodinow

'More Than Human'
Embracing the Promise of
Biological Enhancement

Ramez Naam

'Falling for Science'
Asking the Big Questions

Bernard Beckett

'The Science of Star Trek'
The Scientific Facts Behind the
Voyages in Space and Time

Mark Brake

'The Science of Superwomen'
An Evolution from
Wonder Woman to WandaVision

Mark Brake

'The Science of Dune'
An Unauthorized Exploration into the
Real Science Behind Frank Herbert's
Fictional Universe

Edited by Kevin R. Grazier

'Your Inner Fish'
A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year
History of the Human Body

Neil Shubin

'The Science of Jurassic World'
The Dinosaur Facts
Behind the Films

Mark Brake & Jon Chase

'The Science of Jurassic Park
and the Lost World'
or, How to Build a Dinosaur

Rob DeSalle & David Lindley

'The Frontiers of Knowledge'
What We Know about Science,
History and the Mind

A. C. Grayling

'The Inflationary Universe'
The Quest for a New Theory
of Cosmic Origins

Alan H. Guth

'The Kiwi's Egg'
Charles Darwin &
Natural Selection

David Quammen

Return to Main List

'Planet Science'
TV Documentary Series

'Naked Science'
TV Documentary Series

'Science Friction: Creation'
The Clash between Evolution &
Creationism in the USA
BBC TV Documentary

Paul Sapin (Dir)

'A War on Science'
Intelligent Design vs Evolution
Horizon TV Documentary

James Van Der Pool (Dir)

'Walking with Cavemen'
TV Documentary, 4 Episodes

Prof Robert Winston

'Before We Ruled the Earth'
TV Documentary, 2 Episodes

'Walking with Dinosaurs'
TV Documentary Series

'What Really Killed the Dinosaurs'
TV Documentary

'Forensics Under Fire'
TV Documentary

'The Science of Superman'
TV Documentary

'The Web of Life'
TV Documentary

David Suzuki

'The Day the Earth was Born'
TV Documentary

'Human Ape'
TV Documentary, 2 Episodes

'What's the Problem with Nudity?'
BBC Horizon TV Documentary

Paul King (Dir)

'Secrets of the Cosmos'
TV Documentary

'The Time Lords'
TV Documentary

'10 Ways to End the World'
TV Documentary, 2 Episodes

National Geographic

'Doomsday'
10 Ways the World Will End
TV Documentary, 10 Episodes

'Life is Impossible'
TV Documentary

'On the Dark Side'
Dark Matter
TV Documentary

'Brain Story'
TV Documentary, 6 Episodes

Susan Greenfield

'Growing Up in the Universe'
TV Documentary, 5 Episodes

Richard Dawkins

'Journey to the Edge of the Universe'
TV Documentary

National Geographic

'Through The Wormhole'
TV Documentary, 8 Episodes

Morgan Freeman

'Wonders of the Solar System'
TV Documentary, 5 Episodes

Professor Brian Cox

'Wonders of the Universe'
TV Documentary, 4 Episodes

Professor Brian Cox

'Do You Know What Time It Is?'
Horizon TV Documentary

Professor Brian Cox

'What on Earth is Wrong with Gravity?'
Horizon TV Documentary

Professor Brian Cox

'Can We Make a Star on Earth?'
Horizon TV Documentary

Professor Brian Cox

'Planet Dinosaur'
TV Documentary, 6 Episodes

BBC

'Science Under Attack'
Horizon TV Documentary

Paul Nurse

'The President's Guide to Science'
Horizon TV Documentary

James Van Der Pool

'Are We Still Evolving?'
Horizon TV Documentary

Dr Alice Roberts

'The Cell'
TV Documentary, 3 Episodes

Dr Adam Rutherford

'The Story of Science'
Power, Proof and Passion
TV Documentary, 6 Episodes

Michael Mosley

'The Cosmos'
A Beginners's Guide
TV Documentary, 6 Episodes

Adam Hart-Davis

'Stephen Hawking's
Grand Design'
TV Documentary, 3 Episodes

Stephen Hawking

'Into the Universe
with Stephen Hawking'
TV Documentary, 4 Episodes

Stephen Hawking

'Stargate SG-1'
TV Science Fiction Series

Richard Dean Anderson, Michael Shanks,
Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge

'Battlestar Galactica'
TV Science Fiction Series

Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell,
James Callis, Tricia Helfer

'Star Trek: The Original Series'
TV Science Fiction Series

William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy,
DeForest Kelley, James Doohan

'Star Trek: The Next Generation'
TV Science Fiction Series

Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes,
Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner

'Alien'
Movie, Science Fiction

Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt,
Veronica Cartwright, John Hurt,
Ian Holm

'The Beast Within'
Making 'Alien'
TV Documentary

Charles de Lauzirika (Dir)

'Jurassic Park'
Movie, Science Fiction

Sam Neill, Laura Dern,
Jeff Goldblum

'House, M.D.'
TV Medical Drama Series

Hugh Laurie

'The Big Bang Theory'
TV Comedy Series

Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco,
Johnny Galecki

'Contagion'
Movie, Drama

Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Jude Law,
Laurence Fishburne, Gwyneth Paltrow

'Interstellar'
Movie, Science Fiction

Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway

'The Martian'
Movie, Science Fiction

Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain

'Arrival'
Movie, Science Fiction

Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner
Forest Whitaker

'NUMB3RS'
TV Detective Series

Rob Morrow, David Krumholtz

'Neanderthals: Meet Your Ancestors'
TV Documentary, 2 Episodes

Ella Al-Shamahi

'Neanderthal Code'
TV Documentary, 2 Episodes

Tim Lambert

'Contact'
Movie, Science Fiction

Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey

'In the Shadow of the Moon'
TV Documentary

David Sington (Dir)

'Body of Proof'
TV Medical Drama Series

Dana Delany, Jeri Ryan

'Bones'
TV Forensic Science Drama Series

Emily Deschanel, David Boreanaz

'Orphan Black'
TV Science Fiction Series

Tatiana Maslany, Jordan Gavaris,
Kevin Hanchard, Skyler Wexler

'The Last Ship'
TV Action, Drama Series

Eric Dane, Adam Baldwin,
Rhona Mitra

'Life After People'
How Would Earth Change
in Our Absence?
TV Documentary Series

'Aftermath: Population Zero'
What Might Become of Earth
Should Humanity Disappear?
TV Documentary

'Bird Brain'
Discover the Intelligence of Birds

Nova TV Documentary

'Science in A Golden Age'
TV Documentary, 6 Episodes

Jim al-Khalili

'Rick and Morty'

TV Animated Comedy Sci-Fi Series

'Peak Antibiotics'

TV Documentary

'In Search of Tomorrow'
A Journey Through 1980s
Sci-Fi Films
TV Documentary

David A. Weiner (Dir)

'Building Star Trek'
The Restoration of Props from
the Original Star Trek Series
TV Documentary

Mick Grogan (Dir)

'The Hunt for Planet B'
TV Documentary

Nathaniel Kahn (Dir)

'Last Exit: Space'
TV Documentary

Rudolph Herzog (Dir)

'The Female Brain'
Movie, Comedy

Whitney Cummings, Cecily Strong

'The End of God?'
A Horizon Guide to Science and Religion
Horizon TV Documentary

Naomi Law (Dir)

'The Farthest'
Voyager in Space
TV Documentary

Emer Reynolds (Dir)

'Black Hole Apocalypse'
TV Documentary

Rushmore DeNooyer (Dir)

'Dinosaurs'
The Final Day
TV Documentary

David Attenborough

'The Day the Dinosaurs Died'
TV Documentary

Alice Roberts, Ben Garrod

'How to Survive a Pandemic'
The Race to Produce
COVID-19 Vaccines
TV Documentary

David France (Dir)

'The Vaccine: Conquering Covid'
Developing, Manufacturing and
Distributing a Vaccine
TV Documentary

Jim Cozza (Producer)

'Who Killed the Neanderthal?'
TV Documentary

Thomas Cirotteau (Dir)

'The Revisionaries'
Creationism in US Schools
TV Documentary

Scott Thurman (Dir)

'The Search for
Life in Space'
TV Documentary

Steve Amezdroz (Dir)

'The Science of
Doctor Who'
TV Documentary

Brian Cox

'Picture a Scientist'
Sexual Harassment and
Gender Inequality in Science
TV Documentary

Sharon Shattuck, Ian Cheney (Dir)

'Inside the Milky Way'
A Journey Through
Our Galaxy
TV Documentary

Duncan Copp (Dir)

'The Jupiter Enigma'
The Impact of Jupiter on the
Evolution of the Solar System
TV Documentary

Thomas Lucas (Dir)

'Telescope'
A History of the Telescope
TV Documentary

Nathaniel Kahn (Dir)

'Unseen Enemy'
The Threat of Epidemics
in the 21st Century
TV Documentary

Janet Tobias (Dir)

'The End of Medicine'
Our Treatment of Animals &
Emerging Health Threats

Alex Lockwood (Dir)

'Good Night Oppy'
Follows Opportunity,
the Mars Exploration Rover
TV Documentary

Ryan White (Dir)

'Adult Under Construction'
Our Brain During
Our Teen Years
TV Documentary

Walther Jensen (Dir)

'A Trip to Infinity'
TV Documentary

Jonathan Halperin &
Drew Takahashi (Dir)

'A Brief History of Time Travel'
TV Documentary

Gisella Bustillos (Dir)

'Do We Really Need the Moon?'
TV Documentary

Tim Lambert (Dir)

'Brian Cox: Seven Days on Mars'
TV Documentary

Michael Lachmann (Dir)

'The Science of Interstellar'
TV Documentary

Gail Willumsen (Dir)

'Bill Nye:
Science Guy'
TV Documentary

David Alvarado,
Jason Sussberg (Dir)

'Fireball'
Visitors from Darker Worlds
TV Documentary

Werner Herzog &
Clive Oppenheimer (Dir)

'Hubble's Cosmic Journey'
The story of NASA's
Hubble Space Telescope
TV Documentary

Christopher Riley (Dir)

'Black Holes'
The Edge of All We Know
TV Documentary

Peter Galison (Dir)

'Wow Signal'
SETI and the 1977
Interstellar Signal
TV Documentary

Bob Dawson (Dir)

'Out of the Cradle'
Humanity's Earliest Ancestors
TV Documentary

Toru Suetsugu (Dir)

'Jurassic Ghost Town'
A Mass Murder Mystery
Paleontologists Investigate
15 Dinosaur Skeletons
TV Documentary

Ross Kirby (Dir)

'Nuclear Now'
Moving to Nuclear Power to
Address Climate Change
TV Documentary

Oliver Stone (Dir)

'Deep Time History'
How the Physical World
Shaped our History
TV Documentary, 3 Episodes

Wade Carney (Dir)

'Inside the Mind of a Cat'
TV Documentary

Andy Mitchell (Dir)

'Our Secret Universe'
The Hidden Life
of the Cell
TV Documentary

Michael Davis (Dir)

'The Last of Us'
TV Science Fiction Series

Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey

'Making of The Last of Us'
TV Documentary

Stephen Kemp (Dir)

'Silo'
TV Science Fiction Series

Rebecca Ferguson, Common,
Tim Robbins

'After Armageddon'
Surviving the Breakdown
of Society
TV Documentary

Stephen Kemp (Dir)

'The Secret Genius of Modern Life'
Secrets Behind Modern Technologies
TV Documentary, 12 Episodes

Hannah Fry

'Hidden Universe'
A Journey into Deep Space
TV Documentary

Russell Scott (Dir)

'The Truth Behind Zombies'
National Geographic
TV Documentary

Michael Wafer (Dir)

'When Whales Walked'
Journeys in Deep Time
TV Documentary

Chad Cohen, Graham Townsley (Dir)

'Unknown'
Cosmic Time Machine
The James Webb Space Telescope
TV Documentary

Shai Gal (Dir)

'Space Station'
Building the International
Space Station
TV Documentary

Jill Demby Guest, Toni Myers (Dir)

'When Aliens Attack'
(National Geographic)
TV Documentary

Louis Tarantino (Dir)

'World War A:
When Aliens Attack'
TV Documentary

Anne Siegele (Dir)

'Alien Apocalypse'
Could Humanity Survive?
TV Documentary

Mike Lenzini (Dir)

'Evacuate Earth'
Faced with Destruction,
Could We Evacuate Earth?
TV Documentary

Ted Schillinger (Dir)

'How Life Began'
Possible Origins of
Life on Earth
TV Documentary

Luke Ellis (Dir)

'Science of Drugs'
with Richard Roxburgh
TV Documentary, 4 Episodes

Anja Taylor (Dir)

'Life On Us'
A Microscopic Safari
TV Documentary

Annamaria Talas (Dir)

'Superbugs'
The Unseen Threat
TV Documentary

Kim Harrington (Dir)

'Calculating Ada'
The Countess of Computing
TV Documentary

Hannah Fry

'Woolly Mammoth'
Secrets from the Ice
TV Documentary

Alice Roberts

'The Hunt for Dark Matter'
TV Documentary

Daniel H. Birman (Dir)

'Death on a Comet'
The Rosetta Mission
TV Documentary

Shelley Ayres, Rory Griffin (Dir)

'Particle Fever'
The Large Hadron Collider
and the Higgs Boson
TV Documentary

Mark Levinson (Dir)

'Timelapse of the Future'
A Journey to the End of Time
TV Documentary

John D. Boswell (Dir)

'Asteroid Impact'
Asteroids & the Risk
They Pose Our Planet
TV Documentary

Matthew Huntley (Dir)

'Journey to Space'
Next Stop... Mars
TV Documentary

Mark Krenzien (Dir)

You've reached the end,
of our list.

Return to Main List

www.sillybeliefs.com

Last Updated Feb 2025