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This is an offshoot of the question on Fun math outreach/social activities. I have listed a few videos/documentaries I have seen. I would appreciate if people could add on to this list.

$1.$ Story of maths Part1 Part2 Part3 Part4

$2.$ Dangerous Knowledge Part1 Part2

$3.$ Fermat's Last Theorem

$4.$ The Importance of Mathematics

$5.$ To Infinity and Beyond

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    for [big-list] questions, please remember to flag for moderator attention to convert to a Wiki.2011-01-25
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    @Willie Wong: Ok.2011-01-25
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    @mixedmath: Not a surprise, I frequently favortie a thread if I think I want to come back to it later so I can easily find it. And even if the question is good, if it has already 10++ upvotes I don't upvote it automatically.2012-05-23
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    @Nick: You... limit your upvotes? This is a CW thread - so upvotes don't even give a reputation boost. We get 30 or 40 votes a day. I encourage you to use more of them. A while ago, SE sites [actively tried to ward off this type of voting behavior](http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12/vote-early-and-often), including [math](http://meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/662/vote-early-vote-often). But I would understand holding back on upvoting 'low level' content if you find that you hit the vote limit. Anyhow, I encourage you to read those meta posts.2012-05-23
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    @Nick: You're of course welcome to vote as you want to, but I'd like to also encourage you to vote more liberally. In general, if I feel that a question is the sort of thing I want to see on the site, I give it an upvote. And as mixedmath points out, this particular question has been marked "CW" (community wiki), which means the person who posted it isn't even getting any reputation points from it, so when you upvote you're only expressing your interest in the question. Like you I'm also liberal with my favorites - pretty much anything I think I might want to look at more closely later :)2012-05-23
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    @ZevChonoles: It's not about reputation to me and the vote of questions isn't even so problematic. But if someone gives a new answer to an old question, which already contains another (not as good) answer with 15 votes, the new and better answer will stay low forever. So I don't think it's a good thing if answers have too many upvotes. If an answer has a two-digit number of votes, it's clear enought that it's worth reading. E.g. there are about ten posts in this thread. Even if someone posts the most important video of math history, it can't climb up if the other posts are voteworthy too.2012-05-23
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    @Nick: That's a fair point; I understand your reasoning.2012-05-23
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    Here is a better link for the documentary on Fermat's Last Theorem: http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=7FnXgprKgSE2012-05-23
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    Most people have never seen any of the following people actually speak and do math. Great videos. [Mary Ellen Rudin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL-QWMr7-9E) [John Milnor](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LwkljjLBns) [Saunder Mac Lane](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyBBD32pT98) [Prof. Jean Dieudonné](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzx-0poj3Eo)2016-08-19

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