The Best Quantum Physics Documentaries

Science & Tech - 80 free documentaries about quantum physics.

Start with The Race to Harness Quantum Computing's Mind-Bending Power (24 min, Bloomberg Originals), then Making an atomic trampoline (58 min, NileRed). All 80 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on quantum physics is Quantum by Manjit Kumar.

• The Race to Harness Quantum Computing's Mind-Bending Power | The Future With Hannah Fry (24 min, Bloomberg Originals)
• Making an atomic trampoline (58 min, NileRed)
• Decoding the Universe: Quantum (54 min, NOVA PBS Official)
• Einstein vs Bohr: The Secrets Behind Quantum Physics (59 min, Spark)
• The Gravity Particle Should Exist. So Where Is It? (23 min, PBS Space Time)
• Quantum Physics: The Laws That Govern Our Universe | The Secrets of Quantum Physics (118 min, Spark)
• Einstein's Quantum Riddle (53 min, NOVA PBS Official)
• The Universe Tried to Hide the Gravity Particle. Physicists Found a Loophole. (19 min, PBS Space Time)
• Heisenberg Made a Discovery in 1925. We Still Can't Explain It (27 min, PBS Space Time)
• The Universe Itself Might Be Hiding the Gravity Particle From Us (20 min, PBS Space Time)
• This Particle Solved Everything. We Just Found Out It Isn't Real (20 min, PBS Space Time)
• The Crisis in Physics: Why the Higgs Boson Should NOT Exist! (19 min, PBS Space Time)
• What If We Live in a Superdeterministic Universe? (19 min, PBS Space Time)
• Electrons DO NOT Spin (18 min, PBS Space Time)
• Quantum Physics: The Science Of Reality Explained | Exploring The World Of Quantum Physics (59 min, Spark)
• What makes quantum computers SO powerful? (24 min, Veritasium)
• Most of Reality Is Invisible. We May Finally Be About to Reveal It. (20 min, PBS Space Time)
• Was Penrose Right? NEW EVIDENCE For Quantum Effects In The Brain (19 min, PBS Space Time)
• What If Gravity is NOT Quantum? (19 min, PBS Space Time)
• Is Gravity RANDOM Not Quantum? (20 min, PBS Space Time)
• We Were WRONG About the Quantum Eraser! ft. @LookingGlassUniverse​ (25 min, PBS Space Time)
• The Strangest Implication of Quantum Mechanics (33 min, Veritasium)
• Is The Wave Function The Building Block of Reality? (20 min, PBS Space Time)
• String Theory Explained – What is The True Nature of Reality? (8 min, Kurzgesagt)
• New quantum computers - Potential and pitfalls (28 min, DW Documentary)
• We Thought Energy Had to Travel Through Space. It Might Not. (20 min, PBS Space Time)
• What Does An Electron ACTUALLY Look Like? (16 min, PBS Space Time)
• What If Gravity Isn’t Quantum? New Experiments Explore (18 min, PBS Space Time)
• Does Many Worlds Explain Quantum Probabilities? (20 min, PBS Space Time)
• Why Did Quantum Entanglement Win the Nobel Prize in Physics? (21 min, PBS Space Time)
• What Makes The Strong Force Strong? (22 min, PBS Space Time)
• How to Communicate Across the Quantum Multiverse (19 min, PBS Space Time)
• How the Higgs Mechanism Give Things Mass (18 min, PBS Space Time)
• How Quantum Entanglement Creates Entropy (20 min, PBS Space Time)
• Why String Theory is Wrong (19 min, PBS Space Time)
• The Quantum Experiment that Broke Reality | Space Time (14 min, PBS Space Time)
• Where Do We Come From? The 13.7 Billion Year Journey of an Atom (58 min, Spark)
• The Quantum Experiment That Breaks Time (18 min, PBS Space Time)
• How Heidelberg University became entangled in China's quantum strategy (19 min, DW Documentary)
• New Results in Quantum Tunneling vs. The Speed of Light (18 min, PBS Space Time)
• What Happens During a Quantum Jump? (13 min, PBS Space Time)
• The Fascinating Secrets Of Quantum Physics & Gravity With Jim Al-Khalili (208 min, Spark)
• Quantum Entanglement & Spooky Action at a Distance (9 min, Veritasium)
• Could the Higgs Boson Lead Us to Dark Matter? (15 min, PBS Space Time)
• How Do Quantum States Manifest In The Classical World? (19 min, PBS Space Time)
• Hacking the Nature of Reality (17 min, PBS Space Time)
• So You Want to Understand Quantum Mechanics… (129 min, PBS Space Time)
• Zeno's Paradox & The Quantum Zeno Effect (17 min, PBS Space Time)
• Navigating with Quantum Entanglement (16 min, PBS Space Time)
• The Quantum Internet (15 min, PBS Space Time)
• The Large Hadron Collider Is More Insane Than You Think (49 min, Spark)
• Does Quantum Immortality Save Schrödinger's Cat? (17 min, PBS Space Time)
• How Decoherence Splits The Quantum Multiverse (15 min, PBS Space Time)
• Loop Quantum Gravity Explained (18 min, PBS Space Time)
• What are the Strings in String Theory? (17 min, PBS Space Time)
• How the Quantum Eraser Rewrites the Past | Space Time (15 min, PBS Space Time)
• How Small Is The Universe? (52 min, Spark)
• Why String Theory is Right (17 min, PBS Space Time)
• Quantum Gravity and the Hardest Problem in Physics | Space Time (17 min, PBS Space Time)
• Pilot Wave Theory and Quantum Realism | Space Time (17 min, PBS Space Time)
• The Higgs Mechanism Explained | Space Time (10 min, PBS Space Time)
• Solving Quantum Cryptography (18 min, PBS Space Time)
• Quantum Theory's Most Incredible Prediction | Space Time (17 min, PBS Space Time)
• Why Quantum Information is Never Destroyed (14 min, PBS Space Time)
• Feynman's Infinite Quantum Paths (16 min, PBS Space Time)
• Anti-Matter and Quantum Relativity (16 min, PBS Space Time)
• Quantum Entanglement and the Great Bohr-Einstein Debate | Space Time (14 min, PBS Space Time)
• Jim Al-Khalili Explores The Biggest Secrets Of Quantum Physics (59 min, Spark)
• Why Quantum Computing Requires Quantum Cryptography (17 min, PBS Space Time)
• Could the Universe End by Tearing Apart Every Atom? (16 min, PBS Space Time)
• The First Quantum Field Theory (15 min, PBS Space Time)
• What Now For The Higgs Boson? (8 min, Veritasium)
• Quantum Invariance & The Origin of The Standard Model (13 min, PBS Space Time)
• Understanding the Uncertainty Principle with Quantum Fourier Series | Space Time (15 min, PBS Space Time)
• Is There a Fifth Fundamental Force? + Quantum Eraser Answer (8 min, PBS Space Time)
• Quantum Physics in a Mirror Universe (17 min, PBS Space Time)
• Solving the Impossible in Quantum Field Theory (15 min, PBS Space Time)
• Quantum Vortices and Superconductivity + Drake Equation Challenge Answers (9 min, PBS Space Time)
• The Untold Story Of Why The Atom Bomb Was Used On Japan (48 min, Real Stories)
• Physicists Hunt For The "God Particle": The Elusive Higgs Boson (52 min, Spark)

Top-Rated Books About Quantum Physics

1. Quantum by Manjit Kumar - View on Amazon
2. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli (3.6/5) - View on Amazon
3. Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli - View on Amazon
4. In Search of Schrodinger's Cat by John R. Gribbin (3.6/5) - View on Amazon
5. The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene (4/5) - View on Amazon
6. The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra (3.6/5) - View on Amazon
7. Quantum physics by Stephen Gasiorowicz - View on Amazon
8. An introduction to quantum physics by A. P. French - View on Amazon