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1. After the Dark (2013)
R | 107 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
At an international school in Jakarta, a philosophy teacher challenges his class of twenty graduating seniors to choose which ten of them would take shelter underground and reboot the human race in the event of a nuclear apocalypse.
Director: John Huddles | Stars: James D'Arcy, Sophie Lowe, Daryl Sabara, Freddie Stroma
Votes: 23,611
2. The Fifth Seal (1976)
116 min | Drama, War
In Budapest in 1944, a watchmaker, a book seller and a carpenter are drinking in a bar with the owner, when they are joined by a stranger. The watchmaker asks a hypothetical question that will change their lives.
Director: Zoltán Fábri | Stars: Lajos Öze, László Márkus, Ferenc Bencze, Sándor Horváth
Votes: 5,980
3. Operation Alaska (2017 TV Movie)
66 min | Documentary
Directors: Anna-Reeta Eksymä, Tommi Hakko | Stars: Bruce J. Oreck, Russell Kallio, Vivian Wirta, Martin Johannes Lindeke
Votes: 20
4. Ladder of Philosophy
Documentary, History | Announced
Four philosophers - an atheist, an agnostic, a Christian, and a Hindu - settle down to discuss life, reason, faith, and whatever else comes to mind.
Director: Martin Horlacher | Star: Martin Horlacher
5. Filosofix (2018)
Animation
The most important thought experiments as animated short films. Philosophical theories to find answers to fundamental questions. Ideas to think.
6. The Library of Babel: An Idea of Infinite Possibility (2020)
20 min | Documentary, Short
The idea of the 'Total Library' has come to dominate the bibliographic imagination. A universal library equal parts (almost) infinite wisdom and endless nonsense.
Director: Pseudiom | Stars: Jonathan Basile, Jorge Luis Borges, Kurd Lasswitz, Pseudiom
7. Would You Opt for a Life with No Pain? (2015)
4 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
Director: Avi Ofer | Star: Addison Anderson
8. Mary's Room: A Philosophical Thought Experiment (2017)
5 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
Director: Maxime Dupuy | Star: Addison Anderson
9. Finitude (2018)
6 min | Short
A guy reads Jean-Paul Sartre and uses this new knowledge to try to make decisions in his life ranging from studying at school to his next meal.
Director: Charlie Stenning | Star: Eimontas Jankauskis
10. ABSTRACTOID (2017)
4 min | Short, Sci-Fi
Abstraction of inner thoughts and distractions that students face when the temptation to drink and party faces them diverting them from their studies.
Director: Sage Godrei | Stars: Annais Gallo, Sage Godrei
11.
Coffee with Scott Adams (2018– )
TDS, Chelsea Handler, New Trump 2020 Ad, AOC's Accent, Immigration
(2019 Podcast Episode)
News
Star: Scott Adams
12.
Coffee with Scott Adams (2018– )
Democrats and Bad Arguments
(2019 Podcast Episode)
News
Star: Scott Adams
13.
PBS Infinite Series (2015–2018)
Episode:
A Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
(2016)
8 min | Documentary
Hyperspheres are spheres of more than three dimensions. A natural thing to do with sphere is to find the best way to stack them. Seems easy but it took a couple hundred years before Thomas ... See full summary »
Star: Kelsey Houston-Edwards
14.
TopTenz (2010– )
Episode:
Top 10 Thought Experiments That Will Mess with Your Brain
(2017)
15 min | Documentary
Star: Simon Whistler
15.
Joe Scott (2006– )
Episode:
Prisoners of the Ghostland
(2021)
12 min | Documentary, Short
Who doesn't think a paradox doesn't clarify a confusing situation? Practically nobody. So in the interest of confusion Joe presents four classic paradoxes that confuse or clarify or open ... See full summary »
Star: Joe Scott
16.
Robert DuHamel (2007– )
Episode:
Einstein's Mistake - Lightning Strikes the Train
(2020)
12 min | Documentary
Is it possible that Albert Einstein gave the wrong explanation for what observers would see in his thought experiment about lightning striking a train traveling at relativistic speeds. Or ... See full summary »
Star: Robert DuHamel
17.
The Science Asylum (2013– )
Episode:
The Real Source of Gravity Might Surprise You...
(2020)
8 min | Documentary
About a hundred years ago scientists gave up the idea that gravity is a force. Now it is thought of as the curvature of space time. And here in the Science Asylum it caused specifically by ... See full summary »
Star: Nick Lucid
18.
Through the Wormhole (2010–2017)
Episode:
The Riddle of Black Holes
(2010)
TV-PG | 45 min | Documentary
After reviewing theories about how black holes form and how they were detected this program looks at their counterintuitive behavior that makes them seem so bizarre.
Stars: Morgan Freeman, Julie Comerford, Reinhard Genzel, Stefan Gillessen
Votes: 287
19.
PBS Space Time (2015– )
Episode:
Can Space Be Infinitely Divided?
(2021)
12 min | Documentary, Talk-Show
Star: Matthew O'Dowd
20.
Through the Wormhole (2010–2017)
Episode:
Is There a Sixth Sense?
(2011)
TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary
Several scientists have conducted experiments, although with somewhat questionable controls, that suggest humans may have a rudimentary capabilities for telepathy and precognition. This ... See full summary »
Stars: Morgan Freeman, Daryl Bem, Christie Campagna, David Chalmers
Votes: 156
21.
Nova (1974– )
Episode:
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Quantum Leap
(2011)
TV-PG | 45 min | Documentary
This program explains some of the weirdest aspects of quantum mechanics: uncertainty and entanglement. Despite the absurdity of these behaviors they have been confirmed time and again and ... See full summary »
Directors: Julia Cort, Josh Rosen | Stars: Allan Adams, Christopher Mark Chan, John Clauser, Frank Cuervo
Votes: 218
22.
Decoding the Unknown (2021– )
You Don't Exist: The Terror of Simulation Theory
(2022 Podcast Episode)
26 min | Talk-Show
Simon examines the possibility that all of creation is part of a gigantic simulation run by alien intelligence that we cannot escape from.
Star: Simon Whistler
23.
Nova (1974– )
Episode:
The Fabric of the Cosmos: What is Space?
(2011)
TV-PG | 45 min | Documentary
Simple, obvious, ever-present aspects of our daily lives give scientists fits trying to understand them. One of these aspects is space which physicists are convinced is something more than ... See full summary »
Directors: Graham Judd, Sabin Streeter | Stars: Christopher Berger, Raphael Bousso, Robert Cannon, Anne DeAcetis
Votes: 226
24.
Beeyond Ideas (2020– )
Episode:
How Einstein Thought of the Theory of Relativity
(2021)
9 min | Documentary
Star: Harry Dewang
25.
MinutePhysics (2011– )
Episode:
The Rocket & String Paradox
(2021)
3 min | Documentary, Animation
Bell's spaceship paradox is a special relativity thought experiment that posits two rockets attached by a string that suddenly accelerate simultaneously at the same rate. The question is ... See full summary »
Star: Henry Reich
26.
Pursuit of Wonder (2017– )
Episode:
3 Thought Experiments That No One Can Solve
(2022)
13 min
Here are three famous thought experiments delving into understanding intelligence, perception and self-awareness.
27.
Nova (1974– )
Episode:
Zero to Infinity
(2022)
TV-G | Documentary
Explains where 0 came from & how to work with and think about infinity.
Directors: Daniel McCabe, Jaro Savol | Stars: Aisha Hsu Arroyo, Eric Bennett, Manjul Bhargava, Vinodh Chellamuthu
Votes: 63
28.
Joe Scott (2006– )
Episode:
If "the Universe isn't Real..." Then what is it?
(2023)
19 min | Documentary, Short
Joe explains the cryptic explanation of the work of John Clauser, Alain Aspect and Anton Zeilinger who explained quantum mechanics is real even if the universe isn't. Or something like that.
Star: Joe Scott
29.
Part of the Problem (2018– )
Live from St. Louis!
(2023 Podcast Episode)
News, Talk-Show
Stars: Dave Smith, Robbie Bernstein
30.
The Matt Walsh Show (2018– )
How I Made It onto the ADL's Anti-LGBT Extremism Watchlist
(2023 Podcast Episode)
News, Talk-Show
Star: Matt Walsh
31.
Coffee with Scott Adams (2018– )
Twitter Becomes X, Incels Go Wild, China Evidently Owns Biden Admin
(2023 Podcast Episode)
News
Star: Scott Adams
32.
Sixty Symbols (2009– )
Episode:
Mach's Principle - Sixty Symbols
(2017)
8 min | Documentary
The physics of the large scale influences the physics of the small scale.
Director: Brady Haran | Stars: Brady Haran, Mike Merrifield
34.
The Science Asylum (2013– )
Episode:
How Entanglement Breaks the Universe
(2022)
11 min | Documentary
How physicists developed and demonstrated the existence to quantum entanglement.
Star: Nick Lucid
35.
Coffee with Scott Adams (2018– )
CWSA 12/20/23 How About That Colorado Decision Barring Trump? That and Lots More
(2023 Podcast Episode)
News
Star: Scott Adams
37.
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014)
Episode:
A Sky Full of Ghosts
(2014)
TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary
Explores how light, time and gravity affects our perception of the universe
Directors: Brannon Braga, Ann Druyan, Bill Pope | Stars: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Jonathan Morgan Heit, Wesley Salter, Patrick Stewart
Votes: 2,338
38.
Tucker on X (2023– )
Episode:
The National Security State Is the Main Driver of Censorship and Election Interference in the United States.
(2024)
News
Mike Benz describes the military rule, The national security state is the main driver of censorship and election interference in the United States.
Stars: Tucker Carlson, Mike Benz
Votes: 17
40.
How to Write Best-Selling Fiction (2019)
Episode:
Structuring Your Novel
Documentary
Star: James Scott Bell
41.
Veritasium (2010– )
Episode:
The Most Controversial Problem in Philosophy
(2023)
10 min | Talk-Show
If the Monte Hall paradox was too easy for you listen to what Sleeping Beuty has to deal with. But unlike the Monte Hall paradox which has a correct answer, Sleeping Beuty's choice is much more nuanced.
Stars: Derek Muller, Emily Zhang
42.
Veritasium (2010– )
Episode:
The Bayesian Trap
(2017)
11 min | Talk-Show
Derek explains the incredible formula in the field of probability developed by Thomas Bayes now know as Bayes' Theorem. It is valuable for answering questions that seem very difficult but Derek thinks's it is built into our common sense.
Director: Derek Muller | Star: Derek Muller
43.
BrainCraft (2014– )
Episode:
Can You Solve This Dilemma?
(2015)
6 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
Vanessa shares the classic Trolly Problem to explain how moral decision making works.
Stars: Vanessa Hill, Jake Roper
44.
The Ben Shapiro Show (2015– )
The Best Pro-Abortion Argument Ever, Debunked
(2017 Podcast Episode)
49 min | News, Talk-Show
Ben Shapiro refutes the abortion argument of Twitter user, Patrick S. Tomlinson. Jane Fonda says she is not proud of America.
Stars: Ben Shapiro, Donald Trump