The Best Electricity & Electronics Documentaries

How Things Work - 113 free documentaries about electricity & electronics.

Start with The Secret Spy Tech Inside Every Credit Card (29 min, Veritasium), then How Electricity Actually Works (25 min, Veritasium). All 113 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on electricity & electronics is Chip War by Chris Miller.

The Secret Spy Tech Inside Every Credit Card (29 min, Veritasium)
How Electricity Actually Works (25 min, Veritasium)
How Do Night Vision Goggles Work? (27 min, Veritasium)
Mechanical circuits: electronics without electricity (19 min, Steve Mould)
The Most Confusing Part of the Power Grid (22 min, Practical Engineering)
How Apple AirPods Work (18 min, Real Engineering)
Handheld TESLA COIL GUN at 28,000fps - Smarter Every Day 162 (11 min, Smarter Every Day)
Fantastic DIY Speakers for less than $30! (31 min, Tech Ingredients)
How Electricity Works - for visual learners (19 min, The Engineering Mindset)
How does an Electric Motor work? (DC Motor) (9 min, Jared Owen)
Why This Circuit Works When It Shouldn’t (21 min, The Engineering Mindset)
The Perfect Battery Material Is Dangerous (35 min, Veritasium)
World's Second Best Speakers! (53 min, Tech Ingredients)
MOSFET Explained - How MOSFET Works (20 min, The Engineering Mindset)
The Biggest Misconception About Electricity (15 min, Veritasium)
We made electricity from water - and it's easy! (19 min, Tech Ingredients)
Capacitors Explained - The basics how capacitors work working principle (9 min, The Engineering Mindset)
Why Circuit Breakers DON'T Protect People (electric shocks) (18 min, The Engineering Mindset)
Why Electric Planes are Inevitably Coming (18 min, Wendover Productions)
Repairing Underground Power Cables Is Nearly Impossible (14 min, Practical Engineering)
Tesla's Battery Supply Problem (24 min, Real Engineering)
How 3 Phase Power works: why 3 phases? (15 min, The Engineering Mindset)
How 3 Phase Transformers Work – why we need them (24 min, The Engineering Mindset)
How Resistor Work - Unravel the Mysteries of How Resistors Work! (28 min, The Engineering Mindset)
How Alternators Work - Automotive Electricity Generator (18 min, The Engineering Mindset)
Lava vs Lasers - Which Is More Destructive? (26 min, Mark Rober)
Transistors - The Invention That Changed The World (8 min, Real Engineering)
The Truth About Three-Phase Power: Why It Became the Standard (20 min, The Engineering Mindset)
The 1.25V Trick That Gives You Any Voltage You Want (28 min, The Engineering Mindset)
How to use a multimeter like a pro! The Ultimate guide (29 min, The Engineering Mindset)
China’s Electricity Problem (20 min, Wendover Productions)
Lasers vs Lightning- Which Is More Powerful? (28 min, Mark Rober)
Turning batteries into medicine (20 min, NileRed)
What Really Happened During the Texas Power Grid Outage? (17 min, Practical Engineering)
How to ACTUALLY Use an Oscilloscope (Beginner-Friendly Guide!) (35 min, The Engineering Mindset)
How does a VCR work? (14 min, Jared Owen)
Every US Electrical Outlet Explained (22 min, Practical Engineering)
What Happens to Lasers Underwater? (Total internal reflection) - Smarter Every Day 219 (14 min, Smarter Every Day)
Laser + mirror + sound (10 min, Steve Mould)
COULD SATELLITE LASERS REALLY DO THIS?... (34 min, Tech Ingredients)
Electric Vehicles' Battery Problem (18 min, Wendover Productions)
We built an AI directed laser that destroys moving targets... (22 min, Tech Ingredients)
Clamp Meter Skills That Make You Look Like a Pro (25 min, The Engineering Mindset)
Full Wave Bridge Rectifier + Capacitor filters + half wave rectifier (19 min, The Engineering Mindset)
How the Hawaiian Power Grid Works (17 min, Practical Engineering)
Make Electricity Go Round and Round - The Thermoelectric Effect (15 min, Steve Mould)
Transistors Explained - How transistors work (18 min, The Engineering Mindset)
Electrical Current Explained - AC DC, fuses, circuit breakers, multimeter, GFCI, ampere (19 min, The Engineering Mindset)
World's Largest Lemon Battery (12 min, Mark Rober)
How do Electric Transmission Lines Work? (10 min, Practical Engineering)
How Electricity Generation Really Works (10 min, Practical Engineering)
You helped but we CAN'T STOP THIS LASER! (42 min, Tech Ingredients)
LED Circuit Design - How to design LED circuits (22 min, The Engineering Mindset)
How Batteries Work - Battery electricity working principle (19 min, The Engineering Mindset)
How ELECTRICITY works - working principle (10 min, The Engineering Mindset)
How Would a Nuclear EMP Affect the Power Grid? (17 min, Practical Engineering)
World's Largest Batteries - (Pumped Storage) (9 min, Practical Engineering)
Are Electric Planes Possible? (10 min, Real Engineering)
How Laser Tattoo Removal Works - Smarter Every Day 123 (10 min, Smarter Every Day)
How to unlock the infrared camera hidden inside the Pixel 4 (9 min, Steve Mould)
Can a Steel Cutting Laser Cook a Perfect Burger?! (55 min, Tech Ingredients)
120V 240V Electricity explained - Split phase 3 wire electrician (12 min, The Engineering Mindset)
How Electricity Gets to You (17 min, Wendover Productions)
A Cucumber Was the Best Laser Shield! Now We Try Gel Walls... (46 min, Tech Ingredients)
Ground Neutral and Hot wires explained - electrical engineering grounding ground fault (11 min, The Engineering Mindset)
Voltage Explained - What is Voltage? Basic electricity potential difference (11 min, The Engineering Mindset)
Tearing Apart a 200-Million Pixel Modern Smartphone Camera (50 min, Wonder)
How Does the Power Grid Work? (10 min, Practical Engineering)
You can't hide the batteries when it's transparent! (9 min, Steve Mould)
Can You Bounce A Bubble Off a Laser? (14 min, Steve Mould)
Is Laser Welding the Future? Theo Laser Shows Us How It’s Done (97 min, Tech Ingredients)
MOSFET vs Transistor vs Relay: Most People Get This Wrong (15 min, The Engineering Mindset)
Tesla's Quest for Better Batteries (17 min, Real Engineering)
Why RCDs Fail: The Hidden Danger in Your Consumer Unit (17 min, The Engineering Mindset)
Single Phase Electricity Explained - wiring diagram energy meter (10 min, The Engineering Mindset)
What is CURRENT– electric current explained, electricity basics (12 min, The Engineering Mindset)
How Many Batteries Could Power The World? (ft. MinutePhysics) (10 min, Real Engineering)
How Relays Work - Basic working principle electronics engineering electrician amp (14 min, The Engineering Mindset)
Why Electronics Need Cooling - transistor heat sink (13 min, The Engineering Mindset)
Three Phase Electricity Basics and Calculations electrical engineering (15 min, The Engineering Mindset)

Top-Rated Books About Electricity & Electronics

Chip War by Chris Miller (5/5) - View on Amazon
Electric Universe by David Bodanis - View on Amazon
Code by Charles Petzold (4.2/5) - View on Amazon
Basic electronics by Bernard Grob - View on Amazon
Electrical wiring, industrial by Smith, Robert L. - View on Amazon