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A collection of links to video clips, animations and full films / programmes with a mathematics bent — to inspire teachers to inspire, to feed the minds of our young mathematicians in the making, or, simply, to entertain. Films and clips have been (loosely) categorised as shown below, and arranged alphabetically within each category by title, subject, or mathematician's surname. The films and clips may be used to support teaching, or perhaps as drivers of extra-curricular programmes, or simply to share for enjoyment. The collection is updated regularly, but if you discover an interesting film or clip that is not included here, please do let me know in the comments. None of the clips involve the direct teaching of mathematics, given that there are so many channels available doing that, and I have rarely taken clips from channels solely dedicated to mathematics — a selection of these are provided at the end of the page.

This link will take you to a list of the parent programmes / channels the episodes have been curated from, as indicated by the number in parentheses after each episode, e.g., (20) indicates that the video is from Veritasium's Youtube channel. 

In addition, if you want even more, this link will take you to a selection of other exclusively maths-focused video channels that I have not collated episodes from in the thematic list below, given that their entire focus is mathematics.

Enjoy!

Contents 

• Theme: The History of Mathematics
• Theme: The People of Mathematics
• Theme: The Mathematics Itself
• Theme: Making Sense of things with Mathematics
• Theme: Making Sense of things with Statistics
• Theme: The Teaching of Mathematics, and the Mathematical Mind
• Theme: Other Mathematical Curios
• Theme: Other Hooks for Teaching
• Theme: Mathematics Royal Institution Lectures
• List of episodes' sources
• More Mathematics Video Channels

The History of Mathematics
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• 50 Centuries in 50 minutes (A Brief History of Mathematics) (24) 54:21:00
• How Geometry Created Modern Physics (11) Yang Hui-He 01:01:32
• How One Line in the Oldest Math Text Hinted at Hidden Universes (20) 00:31:11
• The Map of Mathematics  (3) 00:11:05
• Why the Metric System Matters (17) Matt Anticole 00:05:07 
• The Story of Mathematical Proof (11) John Stillwell 00:44:04
• The Letter that revealed Ramanujan's Genius (19) 00:11:42
• The History of Women and Maths (12) June Barrow-Green 52:12:00 

The People of Mathematics
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• Calculating Ada: The Countess of Computing (24) Hannah Fry 00:58:40
• Paul Dirac and the religion of mathematical beauty (12) 00:45:43
• Stephen Hawking on his Maths Teacher (24) 00:02:22
• Leslie Lamport: The Man Who Revolutionized Computer Science With Math (9) 00:07:49
• Roger Penrose and Hannah Fry (7) 01:21:07
• The Sad Story of India's Math Prodigy Ramanujan (6) 00:14:35
• People of Science with Brian Cox: Sir David Spiegelhalter (12) 00:05:36
• The Test That Terence Tao Aced at Age 7 (19) 00:11:12
• Timothy Gowers and Productive generalization (7) 01:28:31
• Andrew Wiles talks to Hannah Fry (7) 01:08:47
• Andrew Wiles: What does it feel like to do maths? (8) 00:08:31

 


The Mathematics Itself
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• Adding Past Infinity (5) 00:00:47
• An Impossible Bet: The 100 Prisoners Problem (5) 00:01:36
• Solution to The Impossible Bet: The 100 Prisoners Problem (5) 00:03:57
• The Brachistochrone (22) 00:25:56
• The Brachistochrone (1) Steven Strogatz 00:16:01
• The Humanity of Calculus (18) Jim Fowler 00:13:11
• Calculus, What is it Good For? (3) 00:07:42
• The Essence of Calculus (1) 00:17:04
• Daylight Saving Time (2) 00:06:39
• The Discovery That Transformed Pi (20) 00:18:39
• This Equation will Change How You See The World (the Logistic Map)  (20) 00:18:38
• The Fastest Maze-Solving Competition On Earth (20) 00:25:21
• Fixed Points (22) 00:16:25
• Hexagons are the Bestagons (2) 00:09:26
• How An Infinite Hotel Ran Out Of Room (20) 00:06:06
• How Imaginary Numbers Were Invented (20) 00:23:28
• How to Count Past Infinity (22) 00:23:45
• How to Read Math (3) 00:06:44
• The Infinite Pattern That Never Repeats (20) 00:21:11
• Taming Infinity (5) 00:01:34
• The Joy of Abstract Mathematical Thinking (11) with Eugenia Cheng 00:51:49
• Magic Numbers: Hannah Fry's Mysterious World of Maths 1 (24) 00:58:45  
• Magic Numbers: Hannah Fry's Mysterious World of Maths 2 (24) 00:58:58  
• Magic Numbers: Hannah Fry's Mysterious World of Maths 3 (24) 00:59:02 
• Math's Fundamental Flaw (20) 00:33:59
• The Most Useful Numbers You've Never Heard Of  (20) 00:33:05
• The Odd Number Rule (22) 00:22:06
• The Oldest Unsolved Problem in Math (20) 00:31:32 
• The Order of Operations is Wrong (5) 00:04:10
• The Paradox at the Heart of Mathematics (17) Marcus Du Sautoy 00:05:19
• Proof Without Words: The Circle (5) 00:01:19
• The Riddle That Seems Impossible Even If You Know The Answer (20) 00:17:45 
• The SAT Question Everyone Got Wrong (20) 00:18:24
• The Simplest Math Problem No One Can Solve (20) 00:22:08
• What is a Leap Year? (2) 00:03:58
• What IS Angular Momentum? (5) 00:03:18
• What is Zero? Getting Something from Nothing (11) Hannah Fry 00:03:53

Making Sense of Things with Mathematics
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• Arithmetic, Population and Energy  Al Bartlett 00:09:15
• The Better Boarding Method Airlines Won't Use (2) 00:08:27
• Building the Universe with Mathematics (11) Manil Suri 00:59:52  
• Can maths predict the future (11) 00:11:17
• Can You Win this One-In-A-Million Game? (2) 00:02:58
• Chaos Theory and Geometry: Can they Predict Our World? (11) Tim Palmer 01:10:25
• How Can Maths Help Us Make Better Predictions (11) Kit Yates 01:01:15
• How Do Mathematical Models Help us Predict the Future (11) Erica Thompson 00:58:48
• How The Most Useless Branch of Math Could Save Your Life (20) 00:35:20 
• How Quantum Computers Break Encryption (Shor's Algorithm) (5) 00:17:30
• How Shor's Algorithm Factors 314191 (5) 00:05:51
• I Took an IQ Test to Find Out What it Actually Measures (20) 00:34:28
• Is the Universe Entirely Mathematical? (5) Max Tegmark  00:02:34 
• Maths, Pandemics and Us (12) 00:44:51
• The Mathematics of love (16) Hannah Fry 00:17:00
• The Beauty of Math and Music (18) Marcus Miller 00:20:26
• The Mathematics of weight loss (18) Ruben Meerman 00:21:25
• Mood Maths (12) Dr Michael Bonsall 00:06:50 
• Protecting Privacy with Math (5) 00:12:31
• The Simple Secret of Runway Digits (2) 00:17:37
• The Trillion Dollar Equation (20) 00:31:21
• The Wisdom of the Crowd (12) Marcus du Sautoy 01:26:28
• What Happens When Maths Goes Wrong? (14) 01:07:33
• What is a Dimension? In 3D...and 2D... and 1D (5) 00:01:20
• Why does Maths give Humans the Edge Over Machines? (11) Junaid Mubeen 00:58:14
• Why Penrose Tiles Never Repeat (5) 00:06:36

Making Sense of Things with Statistics

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• The Bayesian Trap (20) 00:10:36
• Correlation CAN Imply Causation (5) 00:04:11
• The Most Common Cognitive Bias (20) 00:04:43
• What is Random? (22) 00:11:11
• What is not random? (20) 00:09:59
• Randomness and Feedback (5) 00:01:25
• Spooky Coincidences? (22) 00:14:44
• Simpson's Paradox (5) 00:04:39
• Stand Up Comedy Routine about Spreadsheets (14) 00:13:16

The Teaching of Mathematics & the Mathematical Mind

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• The Beauty and Power of Mathematics (18) William Tavernetti 00:12:41
• The surprising beauty of mathematics (18) Jonathan Matte 00:09:13
• Conquering Math Anxiety (18) Robert Ahdoot 00:17:58
• Let’s teach mathematics creatively (18) Ivan Zelich 00:12:36
• Five Principles of Extraordinary Math Teaching (18) Dan Finkel 00:14:41
• Math class needs a makeover (16) Dan Meyer 00:15:48
• On Attempting to Model the Mathematical Mind (24) Roger Penrose 01:07:49
• Math is art. And why it matters (18) Yudhister Kumar 00:14:01
• Math isn't hard, it's a language (18) Randy Palisoc 00:08:54
• Teaching Math Without Words (4) Mathew Peterson 00:08:17 
• Mathematics is the Sense You Never Knew You Had (18) Eddie Woo 00:13:12
• A Technique to Eliminate Math Anxiety (18) Dr. Katie Nall 00:13:12
• Time Management for Teachers (2) 00:06:39
• What does it take to learn math? To live a life? (18) Miroslav Lovric 00:18:08
• What Makes People Engage With Math (18) Grant Sanderson  00:19:01
• Why Learn Math? (23) Steven Strogatz 00:02:40
• The "Why" of Math (18) Po-Shen Loh 00:13:58

Other Mathematical Curios

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• Are Math Jokes Funny? (13) Lewis Black & Brian Greene 00:24:29
• Art inspired by mathematics (18) Michael Naylor 00:18:27
• Do dolphins use non-linear maths? (12) 00:13:03
• Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land 00:27:35
• Faster than a calculator (18) Arthur Benjamin 00:15;03
• Fixed Points (22) 00:16:25
• There is No Fourth Dimension (5) 00:02:02
• How abstract mathematics can help us understand the world (18) Eugenia Cheng 00:11:17
• How Big is The Universe (5) 00:04:17
• How to Count Infinity (5) 00:01:55
• How does math guide our ships at sea?  (17) George Christoph 00:04:18
• How Far is A Second (5) 00:01:29
• How to Subtract by Adding (5) 00:03:13
• I don't do Math (18) Emily Calandrelli 00:16:10
• I predict a riot! (re:publica 2014) (10) Hannah Fry 01:03:52
• Math & Politics (13) Lewis Black & Brian Greene 00:24:02
• Math Magic (22) 00:19:31
• The Greatest Maths Mistakes (15) Matt Parker 00:58:40
• Mathematics is the Art of the Shortcut (11) Marcus Du Sautoy 00:07:48
• The Mathematics of History (16) Jean-Baptiste Michel 00:04:03
• The Order of Operations is Wrong (5) 00:04:10 
• Scary, costly and funny results of maths errors (14) 00:06:15
• Round Triangles (5) 00:01:45
• Symmetry, Reality's Riddle (17) Marcus Du Sautoy 00:18:19
• Weigh a Million Dollars with Your Mind (5) 00:01:30
• What will happen next? Chaos, mathematics and lemmings (18) Marcus Du Sautoy 00:21:34
• Why Raindrops Are Mathematically Impossible (5) 00:02:53
• Why statistics are fascinating: the numbers are us (18) Alan Smith 00:13:00

Other Hooks for Teaching

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• 7 x 13 = 28 (24) 00:04:06 Abbot and Costello
• Area Scale Factor (24) 00:02:01 from The Big Bang Theory
• Bad day at school (24) 00:02:56
• Capture Recapture (24) 00:05:01 from Bang goes the Theory
• Compound Interest (and exponential growth) (24) 00:00:541 from Futurama
• Loan me 50 cents (24) 00:02:16 Abbott and Costello
• Lowest Common Multiples (24) 00:02:07 from Father of the Bride
• Math Class (Imagined by Kids (24)  00:02:10
• Multiplying Negatives (24) 00:00:39 from Stand and Deliver
• My Teacher is an Alien" (Imagined by Kids) (24) 00:02:35
• The Importance of Pi (24) 00:02:16 from Person Of Interest
• Proportion (24) 00:03:06 from Little Big League
• Pythagoras' Theorem (24) 00:00:20 from The Simpsons
• Two Tens for a Five (24) 00:02:22 (24) Abbot and Costello
• Vectors (24) 00:00:40 from Despicable Me
• What is the Best Number (73) (24) 00:00:59 The Big Bang Theory
• Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Math Fail 1 (24) 00:02:47
• Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Math Fail 2 (24) 00:01:25
• Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Math Fail 3 (24) 00:03:07
• Why math is important (24) 00:00:44

Mathematics Royal Institution Lectures
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• 1978: 1, Linking and Knotting (11) Sir Christopher Zeeman 00:59:57
• 1978: 2, Numbers and Geometry (11) Sir Christopher Zeeman 00:59:55
• 1978: 3, Infinity and Perspective (11) Sir Christopher Zeeman 01:00:11
• 1978: 4, Games and Evolution (11) Sir Christopher Zeeman 00:59:15
• 1978: 5, Waves and Music (11) Sir Christopher Zeeman 00:55:53
• 1978: 6, Catastrophe and Psychology (11) Sir Christopher Zeeman 01:00:25
• 1997: 1, Sunflowers and snowflakes (11) Ian Stewart 00:57:22
• 1997: 2, The pattern of tiny feet (11) Ian Stewart 00:51:01
• 1997: 3, Outrageous fortune (11) Ian Stewart 00:59:06
• 1997: 4, Chaos and cauliflowers (11) Ian Stewart 00:58:55
• 1997: 5, Fearful symmetry (11) Ian Stewart 01:00:04
• 2006: 1, The curious incident of the never-ending numbers (11) Marcus du Sautoy 00:39:11
• 2006: 2, The story of the elusive shapes (11) Marcus du Sautoy 00:39:03
• 2006: 3, The secret of the winning streak (11) Marcus du Sautoy 00:38:46
• 2006: 4, The case of the uncrackable code (11) Marcus du Sautoy 00:39:04
• 2006: 5, The quest to predict the future (11) Marcus du Sautoy 00:39:13
• 2019: 1, How to Get Lucky (11) Hannah Fry 00:59:03
• 2019: 2, How to Bend the Rules (11) Hannah Fry 00:59:15
• 2019: 3, How Can We All Win? (11) Hannah Fry 00:59:21

The collection includes:
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1. Select videos from 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel
2. Select videos from CGP Grey YouTube channel
3. Select videos from the Domain of Science YouTube channel
4. Select videos from MIND Education
5. Select videos from MinutePhysics YouTube channel
6. Select videos from the Newsthink YouTube channel
7. Select videos from the Oxford Mathematics YouTube channel
8. Select videos from plusmaths.org
9. Select videos from Quanta Magazine's YouTube channel
10. Select videos from re:publica
11. Select programmes from The Royal Institution 
12. Select videos from The Royal Society
13. Select videos from Science Goes to the Movies
14. Select videos from Stand-up Maths YouTube channel
15. Select videos from Talks At Google
16. Select videos from TED
17. Select videos from TED-Ed
18. Select videos from TEDx
19. Select videos from Tibees YouTube channel
20. Select videos from Veritasium YouTube channel
21. Select videos from Vi Hart YouTube channel
22. Select videos from Vsauce YouTube channel
23. Select videos from World Science Festival
24. Select videos and clips from other sources, including by/with/from Abbot and Costello, BBC, Bored Shorts TV, Despicable Me, Futurama, The Simpsons, Father of the Bride, Stand and Deliver, The Big Bang Theory, Little Big League, London Mathematical Society, Bang Goes the Theory, Person of Interest, Who Wants to Be A Millionaire, Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize, Grand Rapids Community College, Countdown.

More Mathematics Video Channels
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3Blue1Brown by Grant Sanderson. The channel focuses on teaching higher mathematics from a visual perspective.

TedEd Mathematics Lessons

TedEd Mathematics in Real Life

Video based lessons arranged by age, topic or theme. 

Numberphile by Brady Haran. Videos about numbers and mathematics with contemporary professional mathematicians.

Mathologer by Burkhard Polster. Videos providing accessible explanations of hard and beautiful math(s). 

StandUpMaths by Matt Parker, stand up mathematician and author.

Vi Hart YouTube channel of 'recreational mathemusician'.

Oxford Mathematics featuring 'public lectures, student lectures, research films and more. All with the aim of explaining a subject that affects us all.'