NOVA: The Great Math Mystery

Cube

A group of strangers find themselves trapped in a maze-like prison. It soon becomes clear that each of them possesses the peculiar skills necessary to

1997

Cube 2: Hypercube

Eight strangers awaken with no memory, in a puzzling cube-shaped room where the laws of physics do not always apply.

2002

Cube Zero

A young programmer whose job is to watch over the reality-warping Cube defies orders to rescue an innocent mother trapped in one of its rooms.

2004

Pi

A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict the future.

1998

Fermat's Room

Four mathematicians are imprisoned in a shrinking room; with the walls closing in, they must try anything to escape this fatal puzzle.

2007

Proof

Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant and well-known mathematician whose grip on realit

2005

The Oxford Murders

At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try and stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical symb

2008

Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture

In April 2013, a lecturer at the University of New Hampshire submitted a paper to the Annals of Mathematics. Within weeks word spread: a little-known

2015

The Other Me

A lonely criminology professor attempts to solve the mystery behind five murders by decoding the puzzle of five Pythagorean theorems, in a crime story

2017

Four-Point Conics

An experimental mathematics film designed to elucidate the study of four-line conics.

1961

Dimensions

Nine chapters, two hours of maths, that take you gradually up to the fourth dimension. Mathematical vertigo guaranteed!

The Story of 1

A humor-inflected history of the of the number one, covering military applications in ancient Rome, the measurement of distances in India, and the dec

2005

Beautiful Young Minds

This BAFTA nominated documentary tells the story of some of the brightest mathematical brains of a generation. Each year, exceptionally gifted teenage

2007

Terror by Night

Holmes and Watson board a passenger train bound from London to Edinburgh, to guard the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond worth a fortune belonging

1946

The Joy of Data

A witty and mind-expanding exploration of data, with mathematician Dr Hannah Fry. This high-tech romp reveals what data is and how it is captured, sto

2016

The Spell of the Poincare Conjecture

2008

Metamorphose: M.C. Escher, 1898-1972

A documentary about the life and works of the artist M. C. Escher. Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972) usually referred to as M. C. Escher, was a Dutc

1999

Great Pyramid K 2019

Today we cut the granite with diamond-cut blade as is one of the most difficult rocks to cut due to its hardness.How could the egyptians, if it was th

2019

Marguerite's Theorem

The future of Marguerite, a brilliant student in Mathematics at the prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure, seems all planned out. The only woman from h

2023

Theory of Sets

Made entirely on Roger Wagner's HyperStudio software, Chris Marker explores set theory, using Noah's Ark as an example.

1991