Brian Cox

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Brian Cox

Born 1968-03-03 · Oldham, Lancashire, England, UK

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.

Acting credits

Absolutely Anything poster
5.9

Eccentric aliens give a man the power to do anything he wants to determine if Earth is worth saving.

Absolutely Anything

2015

Monty Python Live (Mostly) poster
7.1

Celebrate the last night of the Pythons on the big screen! With John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones and Michael Palin.

Monty Python Live (Mostly)

2014

Cunk on Life poster
7.4

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.

Cunk on Life

2024

The Invocation poster
4.4

An exploration of the notion of 'God' and World Peace through Religion, Spirituality, History, Science, Politics and Arts.

The Invocation

2010

The Day We Walked on the Moon poster
5.6

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.

The Day We Walked on the Moon

2019

End Day poster
4.6

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...

End Day

2005

Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time poster
8.3

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.

Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time

2019

Monty Python: The Meaning of Live poster
7.4

With unprecedented access, this program reveals the humour, chaos and passion that went into bringing the Flying Circus to the stage culminating in the legendary One Down, Five To Go.

Monty Python: The Meaning of Live

2014

A Night with the Stars poster
8.0

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.

A Night with the Stars

2011

Brian Cox: Seven Days on Mars poster
7.5

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.

Brian Cox: Seven Days on Mars

2022

The Entire Universe poster
3.8

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.

The Entire Universe

2016

Stargazing: Moon and Beyond poster
NR

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.

Stargazing: Moon and Beyond

2019

The Science of Doctor Who poster
7.3

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?

The Science of Doctor Who

2013

Timelapse of the Entire Universe poster
NR

The universe is ancient - 50,000 times older than our species. On a cosmic time scale, human history is as brief as the blink of an eye. By compressing all 13.8 billion years of time into a 10 minute scale, this video shows just how young we truly are, and just how ancient and vast our universe is. Starting with the big bang and culminating in the appearance of homo sapiens, this experience follows the unfolding of time at 22 million years per second, adhering closely to current scientific understanding.

Timelapse of the Entire Universe

2018

All About TWO poster
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Quiz and celebration of 50 years of the BBC's second channel, hosted by Dara O Briain. With Richard Osman supplying extra facts and figures, celebrity teams and guest spots from the channel's past and present, All About TWO tells you everything you've ever wanted to know about the channel but didn't know you wanted to ask. It's part celebration, part quiz and all love.

All About TWO

2014

MiP: The Journey Across the Universe poster
NR

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.

MiP: The Journey Across the Universe

2024

The Big Bang Machine poster
8.2

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.

The Big Bang Machine

2008

Curious People: An Incomplete History of Nine Lessons & Compendium poster
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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.

Curious People: An Incomplete History of Nine Lessons & Compendium

2024

The 21st Century Race For Space poster
7.3

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?

The 21st Century Race For Space

2017

A Symphonic Odyssey with Professor Brian Cox poster
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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.

A Symphonic Odyssey with Professor Brian Cox

2024

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7.0

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.

40 Years on the Moon

2009

Brian Cox: Space, Time & Videotape poster
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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.

Brian Cox: Space, Time & Videotape

2014

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