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Learn Through Videos: Chemistry

This is a collection of links to educational videos related to chemistry and chemists, which are made for a general audience. The videos listed in this collection include lectures and documentary films related to chemistry and chemists. They explain pivotal concepts in chemistry; look at the important discoveries in the field; trace the story of how the elements were discovered and mapped; are short videos about every element on the periodic table; reveal the secrets of all you need to know about chemistry; and explore the materials that will shape our future.

The Story of Science: What Is the World Made Of?
This explores from the secret labs of the alchemists in the Middle Ages to the concepts of quantum physics and the invention of the transistor to find the answer to what the world is made of.

The Big Question: How did Life Begin?
The English chemist Harry Kroto looks at the recent scientific research on the origin of life and attempts to answer one of world's most puzzling question: how did life on earth come to be?

Making Stuff
This is a four-part NOVA documentary series hosted by David Pogue, exploring the materials that will shape our future.

Stuff: A Horizon Guide to Materials
Engineer Jem Stansfield looks back through the Horizon archives to find out how scientists have come to understand and manipulate the materials that built the modern world.

How It Works
This is a BBC documentary series presented by Professor Mark Miodownik, revealing the secret alchemy of material science - how we transform materials, and materials transform the world.

The Cell
This is a BBC documentary series presented by Adam Rutherford, telling the extraordinary story of the scientific quest to discover the secrets of the cell and of life itself.

Reactions in Chemistry
This is an eight-part workshop for the professional development of high school chemistry and physical science teachers.

Chemical Curiosities: Surprising Science and Dramatic Demonstrations
Professor Chris Bishop, presenter of the 2008 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, leads us through a spectacular tour through the curious, and sometimes surprising, world of chemistry.

The Science of Fireworks!
A brief history of the modern firework. Professor Chris Bishop, presenter of the 2008 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, gives a family lecture on the history of the modern firework.

Explosions: How We Shook the World
Engineer Jem Stansfield is used to creating explosions, but in this programme he uncovers the story of how we have learnt to control them and harness their power for our own means.

Our Friend The Atom
Rare Walt Disney Science series from 1957 describing the advent of the Nuclear Age. Dr. Heinz Haber looks at the possibility of an exciting new power source.

Conversations with History - Linus Pauling
In this 1983 interview, Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling joins U.C. Berkeley's Harry Kreisler for a discussion of the role of scientists in the peace movement.