The Best Brain Documentaries

Mind & Psychology - 42 free documentaries about the brain.

Start with Your Brain: Who's in Control? (54 min, NOVA PBS Official), then The Man With The Seven Second Memory (48 min, Real Stories). All 42 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on the brain is The Brain by David Eagleman.

• Your Brain: Who's in Control? (54 min, NOVA PBS Official)
• The Man With The Seven Second Memory (48 min, Real Stories)
• Your Brain: Perception Deception (54 min, NOVA PBS Official)
• Our memory - A phenomenal storage system (42 min, DW Documentary)
• From LSD to AI with Switzerland's Brain Explorers | Hello World with Ashlee Vance (24 min, Bloomberg Originals)
• How Are Memories Stored Inside Your Brain? (14 min, Kurzgesagt)
• Are You A Dream Of The Universe? (10 min, Kurzgesagt)
• What Is Intelligence? Where Does it Begin? (10 min, Kurzgesagt)
• How Your Brain Makes Its Own Electricity (20 min, Be Smart)
• The NFL's Concussion Crisis (22 min, Wendover Productions)
• The Optimal Morning Routine - Andrew Huberman (16 min, After Skool)
• How to Quickly Improve Focus - Andrew Huberman (21 min, After Skool)
• How Feedback Affects Performance - Andrew Huberman - Growth Mindset (18 min, After Skool)
• Why You Should Put YOUR MASK On First (My Brain Without Oxygen) - Smarter Every Day 157 (10 min, Smarter Every Day)
• Your Brain on Birth Control - Dr. Sarah Hill (19 min, After Skool)
• How Your Memory Works (10 min, Be Smart)
• How to Maximize Dopamine & Motivation - Andrew Huberman (11 min, After Skool)
• How Your Brain Makes Time Pass Fast or Slow (10 min, Be Smart)
• The Dunning-Kruger Effect - Cognitive Bias - Why Incompetent People Think They Are Competent (10 min, After Skool)
• Why Getting Dizzy is Kinda Like Temporary Brain Damage (9 min, Be Smart)
• What’s Your Brain’s Role in Creating Space & Time? (17 min, PBS Space Time)
• Can Neuroscience Research Help Solve Her Son's Medical Mystery? (48 min, Real Stories)
• How Your Brain Is Changing (56 min, Spark)
• What Happens To The Brain In Old Age? (58 min, Spark)
• How Does The Brain Actually Work? (175 min, Spark)
• How Much Can The Human Brain Learn (55 min, Spark)
• Evidence That Your Mind is NOT Just In Your Brain - Rupert Sheldrake (16 min, After Skool)
• How your Brain Hallucinates your Conscious Reality - Anil Seth (21 min, After Skool)
• Neuroscience Hacks to Manifest Your Dream Life - Dr. Tara Swart (16 min, After Skool)
• What Happens To A Brain That Never Plays? (52 min, Real Stories)
• How The Brain Affects Your Sight And Sound | The Brain Fitness Program (57 min, Spark)
• When Your Eyes Can’t See, but Your Brain is Still Watching (16 min, Real Science)
• How Brain Damage Can Make You a Genius (12 min, Real Science)
• Connecting Brains: The BrainNet - VPRO documentary - 2014 (50 min, VPRO Documentary)
• The Brain's Flexibility To Learn And Adapt In Childhood | The Brain Fitness Program (57 min, Spark)
• 3 Brain Teasers! ft. Physics Girl, Idea Channel & Joe Hanson (11 min, BrainCraft)
• Swarms: The Intelligence of the Masses | Herd Mentality EXPOSED! (44 min, Moconomy)
• Our brain is a prediction machine (Big Questions 1/8) (41 min, VPRO Documentary)
• The “Stress Hormone” Doesn’t Exist (13 min, BrainCraft)
• Why You See Faces in Things (11 min, Be Smart)
• From human brain to artificial intelligence - Docu (47 min, VPRO Documentary)
• From human brain to robot's artificial empathetic intelligence (47 min, VPRO Documentary)

Top-Rated Books About The Brain

1. The Brain by David Eagleman - View on Amazon
2. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks (4.1/5) - View on Amazon
3. Incognito by David Eagleman (3.6/5) - View on Amazon
4. The Tell-Tale Brain by V. S. Ramachandran (neurology) - View on Amazon
5. The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk (4.1/5) - View on Amazon
6. Brain Rules by John Medina (4/5) - View on Amazon
7. Phantoms in the brain : probing the mysteries of the human mind by V. S. Ramachandran (neurology) (4.4/5) - View on Amazon
8. Connectionist modeling and brain function by Carl R. Olson (4.1/5) - View on Amazon
9. Brain by David Eagleman - View on Amazon
10. Neuroscience by Mark F. Bear - View on Amazon
11. Neuroscience for dummies by Frank Amthor - View on Amazon
12. The brain's way of healing by Norman Doidge - View on Amazon
13. Cognitive neuroscience by Michael S Gazzaniga - View on Amazon
14. The idiot brain by Dean Burnett - View on Amazon