An exciting three-part series about one of the great adventures in the history of science: the long and continuing quest to understand what the world is made of. Three hour-long episodes tell the story of seven of history’s most important scientists as they seek to identify, understand and organize the basic building blocks of matter.

Michael Emerson
Narrator

Juliet Rylance
Marie Curie

Yan Tual
Antoine Fourcroy

Hugo Becker
Antoine Lavoisier

Marshall Berenson
Joao Jacinto de Magellan

Erik Bloomquist
Robert Southey

Ava Deluca-Verley
Marie Anne Lavoisier

Ronald Guttman
Jean Charles Trudaine de Montigny

Michael Aronov
Dmitri Mendeleev
How Do They Do It?76%
Horizon73%
MegaStructures75%
The Secret Life of Our Pets74%
30 for 3075%
NOVA70%
Top Gear79%
American Experience65%
Biography67%
Natural World74%
Earth at Night in Colour81%
Quarterback79%
The Reluctant Traveller with Eugene Levy74%
Prehistoric Planet82%
Through the Wormhole76%
Nature79%
Forces of Nature with Brian Cox76%
Limitless with Chris Hemsworth81%
Drain the Oceans70%
Rafa86%