Brian Cox
Also Known As: Professor Brian Cox, Prof. Brian Cox, Dr. Brian Cox, B.E. Cox
Biography: Brian Edward Cox, OBE, is a British particle physicist, a Royal Society University Research Fellow and a professor at the University of Manchester. He is a member of the High Energy Physics group at the University of Manchester, and works on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland. He is working on the R&D project of the FP420 experiment in an international collaboration to upgrade the ATLAS and the CMS experiment by installing additional, smaller detectors at a distance of 420 metres from the interaction points of the main experiments.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Oldham, Lancashire, England, UK
Birthday: March 03, 1968
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Gender: Male
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Holst: The Planets with Professor Brian Cox
Overview: The BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ben Gernon, performs Gustav Holst’s masterpiece, The Planets, at the Barbican, 100 years after its composition. Professor Brian Cox introduces each movement against a backdrop of the very latest in planetary imagery.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
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The Invocation
Overview: An exploration of the notion of 'God' and World Peace through Religion, Spirituality, History, Science, Politics and Arts.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-01
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MiP: The Journey Across the Universe
Overview: A distance planet in a distant star system has a plan: to construct highly advanced miniature robots to send to a wide number of planets in need of an evolutionary boost.
Genres: Mystery Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
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Brian Cox: Seven Days on Mars
Overview: With unique access to Nasa, Brian Cox follows Perseverance rover’s search for life on Mars during a critical seven-day period as it undertakes an epic journey across the red planet.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-06-17
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40 Years on the Moon
Overview: From the BBC's space fanatic James Burke testing out the latest Nasa equipment to 1960s interviews about the bacon-flavoured crystals that astronauts can survive on in space, to the iconic images of man's first steps on the moon and the dramatic story of Apollo 13, Horizon and the BBC have covered it all.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-09
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A Symphonic Odyssey with Professor Brian Cox
Overview: Explore the secrets of the universe with Professor Brian Cox in this special event that combines ground-breaking science with the power of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-01-02
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Absolutely Anything
Overview: Eccentric aliens give a man the power to do anything he wants to determine if Earth is worth saving.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-02-13
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A Night with the Stars
Overview: For one night only, Professor Brian Cox goes unplugged in a specially recorded programme from the lecture theatre of the Royal Institution of Great Britain. In his own inimitable style, Brian takes an audience of famous faces, scientists and members of the public on a journey through some of the most challenging concepts in physics. With the help of Jonathan Ross, Simon Pegg, Sarah Millican and James May, Brian shows how diamonds - the hardest material in nature - are made up of nothingness; how things can be in an infinite number of places at once; why everything we see or touch in the universe exists; and how a diamond in the heart of London is in communication with the largest diamond in the cosmos.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-18
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Monty Python Live (Mostly)
Overview: Celebrate the last night of the Pythons on the big screen! - With John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones and Michael Palin.
Genres: Comedy Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-20
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The Science of Doctor Who
Overview: For one night only, Professor Brian Cox takes an audience of celebrity guests and members of the public on a journey into the wonderful universe of the Doctor, from the lecture hall of the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Drawing on the latest theories as well as 200 years of scientific discoveries and the genius of Einstein, Brian tries to answer the classic questions raised by the Doctor. Can you really travel in time? Does extra-terrestrial life exist in our galaxy? And how do you build something as fantastical as the TARDIS?
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-14
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Do You Know What Time It Is?
Overview: Particle physicist Professor Brian Cox asks, 'What time is it?' It's a simple question and it sounds like it has a simple answer. But do we really know what it is that we're asking? He investigates the concept of time, exploring its origins and its limits, and questioning whether travelling through it will ever be possible. Brian visits the ancient Mayan pyramids in Mexico where the Maya built temples to time. He finds out that a day is never 24 hours and meets Earth's very own Director of Time. He journeys to the beginning of time, and goes beyond within the realms of string theory, and explores the very limit of time. He discovers that we not only travel through time at the speed of light,but the experience we feel as the passing of time could be an illusion.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-02
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Curious People: An Incomplete History of Nine Lessons & Compendium
Overview: Almost two decades after comedian Robin Ince’s original idea to mash up science with comedy, music and culture in a new variety show, Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless/Curious People and Robin and Brian's Christmas Compendium of Reason are still here brightening the dark days of winter with a joyous celebration of all things curious and creative. This feature length documentary charts the evolution of those pioneering and legendary science variety nights that have attracted legions of fans both on and off the stage and raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for charity. With loads of exclusive interviews and never before seen behind the scenes footage we look at how one person's 'stupid idea' ended up changing the shape of science communication and entertainment forever, moving science from the classroom to arenas.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-07-22
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Brian Cox: Space, Time & Videotape
Overview: Professor Brian Cox is joined by two of his heroes, the actor Brian Blessed and Professor Alice Roberts. On the agenda are his TV idols from both science fiction and science fact, as well as a whole universe of other stuff.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-09
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The Entire Universe
Overview: Eric Idle persuades Professor Brian Cox to present a lecture on the birth of the entire universe. Brian soon realises Eric is actually hosting a comedy and musical extravaganza.
Genres: Music Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-26
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End Day
Overview: Made in the form of a faux documentary, these are four possibilities - set within the circumstances of a single day replayed over four separate times - that civilization could be brought to an abrupt end...
Genres: Drama Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-21
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Monty Python: The Meaning of Live
Overview: With unprecedented access, this program reveals the humour, chaos and passion that went into bringing the Flying Circus to the stage cumulating in the legendary One Down, Five To Go.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-13
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The Big Bang Machine
Overview: Professor Brian Cox visits Geneva to take a look around Cern's Large Hadron Collider before this vast, 27km long machine is sealed off and a simulation experiment begins to try and create the conditions that existed just a billionth of a second after the Big Bang. Cox joins the scientists who hope that the LHC will change our understanding of the early universe and solve some of its mysteries.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-23
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The 21st Century Race For Space
Overview: A new age of space exploration, and exploitation, is dawning. But surprisingly, some of the boldest efforts at putting humans into space are now those of private companies started by a handful of maverick billionaire businessmen. Beyond mass space travel, and even space mining and manufacturing, the dream of Elon Musk and others is true space exploration. His company, SpaceX, already delivers supplies to the International Space Station, and their next step is delivering astronauts too. But their true ambition is to ensure the survival of the human race by crossing our solar system and colonizing Mars in the next decade. Could commercial spaceflight companies eventually make us a space-faring civilization?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-05
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The Infinite Monkey Cage: 100th Episode TV Special
Overview: Brian Cox and Robin Ince celebrate the 100th episode of their hit science/comedy show, by inviting some very well known monkey cage alumni to join them. Brian Blessed, Eric Idle, Katy Brand, Dave Gorman and Andy Hamilton (to name a few) take to the stage to consider what has been learnt since Episode 1, back in November 2009. Joining them are science royalty, including Alice Roberts, American astrophysicist Neil De Grasse Tyson, Prof Sue Black and Prof Fay Dowker, to look at the big scientific discoveries that have happened in the time since Brian and Robin first hit the airwaves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-07-13
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Stargazing: Moon and Beyond
Overview: Stargazing celebrates the 50th anniversary of the moon landing mission. Professor Brian Cox and Julia Zemiro imagine future space exploration, see what it takes to become an astronaut and investigate Australia's space agency.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-07-16
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The Day We Walked on the Moon
Overview: On July 16, 1969, hundreds of thousands of spectators and an army of reporters gathered at Cape Kennedy to witness one of the great spectacles of the century: the launch of Apollo 11. Over the next few days, the world watched on with wonder and rapture as humankind prepared for its "one giant leap" onto the moon--and into history. Witness this incredible day, presented through stunning, remastered footage and interviews that takes you behind-the-scenes and inside the spacecraft, Mission Control, and the homes of the astronaut's families.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-07-08
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What on Earth is Wrong With Gravity
Overview: That might seem a bizarre statement, coming a century after Einstein showed that gravity is the result of matter warping space and time around it.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-29
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Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time
Overview: How's it all gonna end? This experience takes us on a journey to the end of time, trillions of years into the future, to discover what the fate of our planet and our universe may ultimately be. We start in 2019 and travel exponentially through time, witnessing the future of Earth, the death of the sun, the end of all stars, proton decay, zombie galaxies, possible future civilizations, exploding black holes, the effects of dark energy, alternate universes, the final fate of the cosmos - to name a few.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-20
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Cunk on Life
Overview: Pioneering documentary maker Philomena Cunk returns with her most ambitious quest to date: venturing right up the universe and everything to examine life and existence in an attempt to find out the point of it all. Along the way, she interrogates experts on subjects from the big bang to biology and art to artificial intelligence. Really get to the nub of it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-12-05
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