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The absolute best videos on the internet, hand picked and verified one by one. No filler, no listicles come to life: just the ones that are still worth your time.
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Science
Powers of Ten™ (1977)
Eames Office
The 1977 zoom from a picnic blanket to the edge of the universe and back into an atom still rewires how people feel about scale.
The complete FUN TO IMAGINE with Richard Feynman
Christopher Sykes
Feynman treats magnets, fire and jello as pure play, and it remains the most joyful physics lesson ever filmed.
Why Are 96,000,000 Black Balls on This Reservoir?
Veritasium
Ninety six million black balls poured onto a reservoir sounds like a prank until the engineering reason lands.
Vectors | Chapter 1, Essence of linear algebra
3Blue1Brown
The opening chapter of the series that made millions of people finally feel linear algebra click.
The Fermi Paradox — Where Are All The Aliens? (1/2)
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
The sharpest telling of the creepiest question in science: if aliens are out there, where is everybody?
Space
Restored Apollo 11 Moonwalk - Original NASA EVA Mission Video - Walking on the Moon
NASA
NASA's restored footage of the actual 1969 moonwalk, the most important television broadcast in history.
Carl Sagan - Pale Blue Dot
carlsagandotcom
Sagan reads his own words over the Voyager photo of Earth as a tiny speck, and four minutes later your priorities have moved.
Space Oddity
Rare Earth
An astronaut covers Bowie aboard the real space station, the first music video ever filmed in orbit.
All Alone in the Night - Time-lapse footage of the Earth as seen from the ISS
David Peterson
Cities, auroras and thunderstorms roll past beneath the station in the internet's definitive Earth from above film.
How Not to Land an Orbital Rocket Booster
SpaceX
SpaceX set its own exploding rockets to music and made failure feel like progress; a modern classic of engineering honesty.
Ideas
The Egg - A Short Story
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
A short story about life, death and reincarnation that became one of the most shared philosophy videos ever made.
Optimistic Nihilism
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
The case that a universe without built in meaning is good news, delivered in six minutes people rewatch for years.
Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
Stanford
Three stories and one instruction, stay hungry and stay foolish; still the speech every commencement address is measured against.
Randy Pausch's Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
Carnegie Mellon University
A dying professor lectures on actually achieving your childhood dreams, and somehow it is joyful, funny and impossible to forget.
Music
Queen - Live Aid 1985 Full Concert
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Twenty one minutes at Wembley in 1985, widely voted the greatest live rock performance of all time.
Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody (Official Video Remastered)
Queen Official
The 1975 promo clip that invented the modern music video, still gathering views half a century later.
Johnny Cash - Hurt
JohnnyCashVEVO
Johnny Cash, near the end, sings his whole life back at the camera; one of the most powerful music videos ever made.
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah (Official Video - Live at Bearsville)
jeffbuckleyVEVO
Buckley's live take turned a deep cut into the definitive version of the most covered song of its era.
Nature
Iguana vs Snakes | Planet Earth II
BBC Earth
A hatchling iguana runs a gauntlet of snakes in the most famous sequence from Planet Earth II, pure cinema from the wild.
Amazing! Bird Sounds From The Lyre Bird - David Attenborough - BBC Wildlife
BBC Studios
Attenborough presents a bird that imitates chainsaws, camera shutters and other birds; the clip that defined BBC nature films online.
Battle at Kruger
Jason Schlosberg
Buffalo, lions and a crocodile collide in one amateur safari video, the viral classic that proved anyone could capture the impossible.
Yosemitebear Mountain Double Rainbow 1-8-10
Yosemitebear62
One man's total wonder at a full double rainbow over Yosemite became the internet's purest expression of awe.
History
history of the entire world, i guess
bill wurtz
Thirteen billion years in nineteen minutes, funnier and denser than any textbook; a landmark of internet storytelling.
history of japan
bill wurtz
The video that launched bill wurtz and a whole genre: nine minutes, thousands of jokes, real history learned by accident.
Martin Luther King, Jr. I Have A Dream Speech
Ilya Gokadze
The full I Have a Dream speech at the Lincoln Memorial, the defining public address of the twentieth century.
Charlie Chaplin - Final Speech from The Great Dictator
Charlie Chaplin
Chaplin steps out of character to plead for humanity in 1940, a speech that only gets more quoted every decade.
How Things Work
How Differential Gear works (BEST Tutorial)
ConceptVBS
The beautifully clear classic tutorial that has taught generations of drivers and engineers how a differential gear turns a corner.
Mystery of Prince Rupert's Drop at 130,000 fps - Smarter Every Day 86
SmarterEveryDay
A glass drop shrugs off hammers and bullets yet explodes if you snip its tail, filmed at 130,000 frames per second.
World's Roundest Object!
Veritasium
A near perfect silicon sphere made to redefine the kilogram, and a story about how precisely humans can measure anything.
The Backwards Brain Bicycle - Smarter Every Day 133
SmarterEveryDay
A bicycle that steers in reverse breaks a grown man's brain for months; the best demonstration ever filmed of how learning really works.
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