The Best Everyday Science Documentaries

How Things Work - 26 free documentaries about everyday science.

Start with Explosive Bat in Slow Motion Ft. Stuff Made Here - Smarter Every Day 245 (22 min, Smarter Every Day), then Bullets HITTING Bullets in Slow Motion - THE IMPOSSIBLE SHOT - Smarter Every Day 287 (35 min, Smarter Every Day). All 26 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on everyday science is What If? by Randall Munroe.

• Explosive Bat in Slow Motion Ft. Stuff Made Here - Smarter Every Day 245 (22 min, Smarter Every Day)
• Bullets HITTING Bullets in Slow Motion - THE IMPOSSIBLE SHOT - Smarter Every Day 287 (35 min, Smarter Every Day)
• Two Vortex Rings Colliding in SLOW MOTION - Smarter Every Day 195 (9 min, Smarter Every Day)
• The WALKING WATER Mystery (in SPACE and SLOW MOTION!) - Smarter Every Day 160 (12 min, Smarter Every Day)
• Europe’s Experiment: Treating Trains Like Planes (20 min, Wendover Productions)
• The experiment that revealed the atomic world: Brownian Motion (12 min, Steve Mould)
• The UK's Failed Experiment in Rail Privatization (20 min, Wendover Productions)
• Shockwave Shadows in Ultra Slow Motion (Bullet Schlieren) - Smarter Every Day 203 (10 min, Smarter Every Day)
• Cannon Shock Waves in Ultra Slow Motion - Smarter Every Day 200 (14 min, Smarter Every Day)
• How We Make Slow Motion Sounds (Exploding Tomato at 60,000fps) - Smarter Every Day 184 (9 min, Smarter Every Day)
• Anechoic Chamber - DIY Sound Absorption Panels (35 min, Tech Ingredients)
• Backyard Squirrel Maze 2.0- The Walnut Heist (17 min, Mark Rober)
• DIY Speakers and Acoustic Panels (51 min, Tech Ingredients)
• How To See Germs Spread Experiment (Coronavirus) (9 min, Mark Rober)
• The Archer's Paradox in SLOW MOTION - Smarter Every Day 136 (9 min, Smarter Every Day)
• NASA's Weirdest Experimental Plane (13 min, Real Engineering)
• I Fed a Chameleon From My Mouth To Study Its Mouth ( In Slow Motion) (10 min, Smarter Every Day)
• See Through Suppressor in Super Slow Motion (110,000 fps) - Smarter Every Day 177 (10 min, Smarter Every Day)
• Myth-testing Christmas movies with Science Experiments (8 min, Mark Rober)
• The Controversial Physics of Curling - COLD HARD SCIENCE - Smarter Every Day 111 (11 min, Smarter Every Day)
• COLD HARD SCIENCE.The Physics of Skating on Ice (With SlowMo) - Smarter Every Day 110 (10 min, Smarter Every Day)
• The Physics of Racing Games (10 min, Real Engineering)
• Redefining the Kilogram with the DIY Watt Balance (11 min, Practical Engineering)
• DIY Digital Data Sender (25 min, Tech Ingredients)
• DIY Centrifugal Pump - How to make a pump from wood and optimise with CFD (15 min, The Engineering Mindset)
• Resin Sphere Turning Experiment Failure (9 min, Practical Engineering)

Top-Rated Books About Everyday Science

1. What If? by Randall Munroe (4.3/5) - View on Amazon
2. Storm in a Teacup by Helen Czerski - View on Amazon
3. The Science of Cooking by Peter Barham - View on Amazon
4. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli (3.6/5) - View on Amazon