161 Science Documentaries You Can Watch Right Now (No Membership Required)

You spent all of your first social distancing week binge-watching reality shows and now your brain is in desperate need of something enriching. Good news. We’ve got you covered. Below is a list of 161 of the best science documentaries and web series out there. All of these shows are available to watch right now without a membership. Just click the links and press play. Or better yet, find them in the free PBS Video app for your Roku, Apple TV, Samsung Smart TV, Fire TV Stick, phone or tablet. Enjoy!

• Animals, Air

  
  • Inside Animal Minds: Bird Genius
  • A Life Among the Clouds: A NATURE Short Film
  • Super Hummingbirds

• Animals, General

  
  • Deep Look Web Series
  • Songs for Unusual Creatures Web Series

• Animals, Land

  
  • Big Cats
  • Camel
  • Deep Look Web Series
  • Dogs in the Land of Lions
  • Equus “Story of the Horse” | Episode 1: Origins
  • Equus “Story of the Horse” | Episode 2: Chasing the Wind
  • Forest of the Lynx
  • Fox Tales
  • India’s Wandering Lions
  • Inside Animal Minds: Dogs & Super Senses
  • Inside Animal Minds: Who’s the Smartest?
  • Living with Snow Leopards–Tashi’s Story
  • Monster Python
  • What Are Animals Saying?
  • Running With The Herd: A NATURE Short Film
  • The Story of Cats | Into the Americas
  • Trinidad’s Turtle Giants
  • Undercover in the Jungle
  • World’s Fastest Animal

• Animals, Prehistoric

  
  • Attenborough and the Sea Dragon
  • Eons Web Series

• Animals, Water

  
  • Cod Comeback?
  • Giant Squid
  • Great White Shark
  • Scourge of the Lionfish
  • Shark Reef
  • Sperm Whale
  • Swordfish!

• Ancient People & Places

  
  • Decoding the Great Pyramid
  • First Face of America
  • Great Human Odyssey
  • Making North America Human
  • Making North America: Life
  • Making North America: Origins

• Architecture & Engineering

  
  • Building the Great Cathedrals
  • Rise of the Rockets

• Biology

  
  • The Animal Origins of Art/How We Choose Our Mates
  • Gene Doctors
  • I Contain Multitudes Web Series
  • Life’s Great Miracle
  • Can We Make Life?
  • Can We Build a Brain?
  • The Science of Monogamy/Our Mysterious Lifespan
  • What Separates Humans from Animals?
  • Your Inner Fish
  • Your Inner Monkey
  • Your Inner Reptile

• Chemistry

  
  • Reactions Web Series
  • Shanks FX

• Computers

  
  • Crash Course: Artificial Intelligence Web Series
  • Crash Course: Computer Science Web Series
  • CyberWork and the American Dream
  • Ideal Channel Web Series
  • Niall Ferguson’s Networld: Episode 1 – “Disruption”
  • Niall Ferguson’s Networld: Episode 2 – “Winner Takes All”
  • Niall Ferguson’s Networld: Episode 3 – “Networld War”

• Environment

  
  • Adaptation to Global Water Shortages
  • Building a Future: Lumber Poaching in Oregon and Brazil
  • The Chain of Life
  • City Planning
  • Climate Migration
  • Destination Baja
  • Dying Oceans: Abalone Restoration In California
  • Extreme Realities
  • Follow the Water
  • Fueling Change: Oil Extraction in Alaska & California
  • Green Builders
  • Healing the Body with United Indian Health Service
  • Holistic Healing with the Syuxtun Collective
  • Hot Mess Web Series
  • Lighting A Path: Embracing Solar Power
  • Managing Groundwater with the Paiute
  • Poisoned Water
  • The Prairie Killers
  • Protecting the Coast with the Tolowa Dee-ni’
  • Prudhoe Bay or Bust!
  • ReInventors Web Series
  • Restoring The River with the Yurok, Hupa and Karuk
  • River of Kings
  • The Sacred Island
  • Santa Barbara: Everybody’s Mistake
  • Sea Level Rising: Living with Water
  • Sinking Cities: New York
  • Sinking Cities: Tokyo
  • Sinking Cities: London
  • Sinking Cities: Miami
  • Slow Death of Desert Water
  • Tending the Wild
  • Urban Habitat
  • The Water is so Clear that a Blind Man Could See
  • Why Do We Destroy Nature? / Tackling Inequality
  • Will the Gater Glades Survive?

• Food & Agriculture

  
  • Agriculture’s Mixed Blessings/How Agriculture Differentiated
  • Avocado Wars: The Battle Over Water Rights In Chile
  • Of Broccoli and Pelicans and Celery and Seals
  • Dairy Alternatives: Rethinking Milk In California and Kenya
  • Decolonizing Cuisine with Mak-‘amham
  • Future of Food
  • Nourish Web Series
  • Serving up Science Web Series
  • Tribal Hunting with the Pit River Peoples

• General Science

  
  • Gross Science Web Series
  • It’s Okay to Be Smart Web Series
  • Secret Life of Scientists

• Geography

  
  • Antarctic Extremes Web Series
  • Backbone Trail Web Series
  • Okavango: River of Dreams – Episode 1: Paradise
  • Okavango: River of Dreams – Episode 2: Limbo
  • Okavango: River of Dreams – Episode 3: Inferno
  • Polar Extremes
  • The Serengeti Rules
  • Spend An Hour in Snowy Yellowstone | Sights & Sounds
  • Yosemite

• Geology

  
  • Treasures of the Earth: Metals
  • Hunting the Elements

• Math

  
  • Infinite Series Web Series

• Physics

  
  • Crash Course: Physics Web Series
  • The Fabric of the Cosmos: Universe or Multiverse?
  • The Fabric of the Cosmos: Quantum Leap
  • The Fabric of the Cosmos: The Illusion of Time
  • Physics Girl Web Series

• Space

  
  • Apollo’s Daring Mission
  • Black Hole Apocalypse
  • Crash Course: Astronomy Web Series
  • Earth from Space
  • The Elegant Universe: Part 1
  • The Elegant Universe: Part 2
  • The Elegant Universe: Part 3
  • The Fabric of the Cosmos: What is Space?
  • The Farthest — Voyager in Space
  • Finding Life Beyond Earth
  • Are We Alone
  • What’s the Universe Made Of?
  • The Planets: Ice Worlds
  • The Planets: Saturn
  • The Planets: Jupiter
  • The Planets: Mars
  • The Planets: Inner Worlds
  • Space Time Web Series
  • Stellar Web Series
  • Will We Be Visited By Aliens? / Can We Eradicate Genocide?