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I was reading Shape and Flow: The Fluid Dynamics of Drag by Shapiro and wanted to see the movies described by the book.

There is a whole series of fluid dynamics movies at
http://web.mit.edu/hml/ncfmf.html

Of course, they pale in comparison to my favorite educational movie which is about magnets
https://archive.org/details/magnet_laboratory_1959
It was directed by a famous documentarian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Leacock

More info on PSSC films
http://www.afana.org/psscfilms.htm

Does anyone else have a favorite educational movie?
 
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At the risk of dating myself, my favorite science series include "Cosmos" written and presented by the late Carl Sagan and certain episodes of "Nova" created by WGBH Boston; both broadcast via Public Broadcasting System (PBS) in the USA.
 
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How about biographies of great scientists?
There most be a lot of them, some probably explain concepts as well as doing the human interest angle.
I can't remember any off the top of my head, but when I was a kid I read a lot of books like that.
I particularly remember reading about Pasture. It was informative and inspirational.
PBS probably has a lot of Nova shows like this.