The purpose of this website is to collect together information on documentaries and movies with either a significant mathematical content or a story which heavily centers on math or mathematicians. There are a number of websites about "Math in the Movies," but many of them make reference to any quick little scene they can find with some mathematical content (an intense undertaking to document, no doubt!). The primary focus here is on documentaries, but a few fictional works are also included.

A Mathematical Mystery Tour Episode 20 of the 12th season of the Public Broadcasting System's series NOVA was titled "A Mathematical Mystery Tour" (Program #1208 - it was the 8th episode of the 12th year during which NOVA aired, 1985). It first aired on March 5, 1985. It includes interviews by several prominent mathematicians and math historians of the time, including Paul Erdos, Jean Dieudonne, Rene Thom, and Ivor Grattan-Guinness. Topics discussed are Platonism, the Goldbach Conjecture, the Continuum Hypothesis, the Four Color Theorem, and Godel's Incompleteness Theorems. A Mathematical Mystery Tour is available online at YouTube. It is in 8 parts: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8. A website commemorating the 25th anniversary of the airing of this is online at: 25th Anniversary of A Mathematical Mystery Tour.	The Story of Maths This is a BBC series on the history of mathematics, narrated by Oxford University professor Marcus du Sautoy which aired in October 2008. It consists of four parts: The Language of the Universe The Genius of the East The Frontiers of Space To Infinity and Beyond This is a deep documentary on a wide variety of areas of pure math. It is probably the best such documentary of the past 25 years (since the NOVA episode A Mathematical Mystery Tour). In addition to the topics covered in MMT, it also explores Fibonacci, non-Euclidean geometry and topology, Poincare, Hilbert, the Riemann hypothesis, Paul Cohen, and Julia Robinson. Fortunately, all of this series is available online: The Story of Maths.
The Beauty and Complexity of the Mandelbrot Set	Transition to Chaos
Natural Minimal Surfaces	Chaos, Fractals, and Dynamics
Platonic Solid Rock	Independent Lens: Between the Folds
Julia Robinson and Hilbert's Tenth Problem (no photo)	Mathematics, Philosophy, and the "Real World" (no photo)
I Want to be a Mathematician	American Experience: A Brilliant Madness (John Nash)
The Real Number System	Hard Problems: The Road to the World's Toughest Math Contest
Einstein's Big Idea	Dangerous Knowledge A BBC show, this is available on YouTube.
The Shape of Things	The Shape of Space
Not Knot	Evariste Galois (1965)
Infinite Secrets	Donald in Mathemagic Land
Donald in Mathemagic Land, Classroom Edition	The Story of 1
Fractals: Hunting the Hidden	The Proof
N is a Number - A Portrait of Paul Erdos	The Great pi/e Debate
Newton's Dark Secrets	The United States of Mathematics Presidential Debate
COSMOS The seventh episode, "The Backbone of Night," includes mention of the Pythagoreans, mathematical certainty, and the Platonic solids. The tenth episode, "The Edge of Forever," includes a brief discussion of flatland, higher dimensions, and the idea that the universe may have the shape of a 3-sphere.	The Ascent of Man (episodes)

Flatland: A Journey of Many Dimensions	Flatland the Film
I.Q.	Infinity
{Proof}	Good Will Hunting
A Beautiful Mind	Stand and Deliver
Fermat's Room	PI