11 Best Science Documentaries on Netflix Streaming

7. Particle Fever

Site Score: 10, IMDb Score: 3, Overall Score: 13
Directed by Mark Levinson
Year: 2013

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is the largest experimental facility ever built. The price tag alone of $9 billion sets it far above any other experiment in human history. The project was surrounded by doubt and negative press, as well as malfunctions in its early stage. For a while, the notion that it will all be for nothing was very present in the lives of physicists working at CERN. However, they managed to overcome all obstacles and in 2012, their efforts were rewarded with the discovery of Higgs-like particle. The documentary was seven years in the making and is praised for its easily understandable explanations of complex experimental physics’ terms.