Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "radioactive-element"

1. King Kong Escapes (1967)

G | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Family

The evil Dr. Who captures King Kong to dig for Element X when his robot duplicate, Mechani-Kong, is unable to do the job, but Kong soon escapes and battles his doppelganger.

Director: Ishirô Honda | Stars: Rhodes Reason, Mie Hama, Linda Miller, Akira Takarada

Votes: 3,203

2. The Invisible Ray (1935)

Approved | 80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A scientist becomes murderous after discovering, and being exposed to the radiation of, a powerful new element called Radium X.

Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Frances Drake, Frank Lawton

Votes: 3,037

3. SuperSeven Calling Cairo (1965)

GP | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Super 7 looks for a piece of a new metal hidden in a camera.

Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Roger Browne, Fabienne Dali, Massimo Serato, Andrea Aureli

Votes: 204

4. TopTenz (2010– )
Episode: The Most Bizarre Elements in the World (2021)

10 min | Documentary

Here are some elements with unusual properties. A few are very common and are even found in your body. But encounter them in pure form and watch out. Others are perfectly safe and are fun ... See full summary »

Star: Simon Whistler

5. Periodic Videos (2008– )
Episode: Protactinium - Periodic Table of Videos (2014)

7 min | Documentary

Protactinium is a scarce product of the radioactive decay of uranium itself decaying to actinium. That makes it useful of geological data but little else. The professor shares the details ... See full summary »

Stars: Brady Haran, Martyn Poliakoff

6. Periodic Videos (2008– )
Episode: Americium - Periodic Table of Videos (2012)

8 min | Documentary

Americium was discovered in the Manhatten project but kept secret until the news leaked out a year later. it has a commercial use in microscopic quantities as a radiation source in smoke ... See full summary »

Stars: Martyn Poliakoff, Mark Sarsfield

7. Seeker (2012– )
Episode: This Radioactive Element Defies Quantum Theory: Meet Berkelium (2018)

4 min

Berkelium is a synthetic, radioactive lanthanide element with a half life measured in days. So it's expensive, there's not much around at any one time and it doesn't last long making it ... See full summary »

Star: Julian Huguet

8. Periodic Videos (2008– )
Episode: Promethium - Periodic Table of Videos (2018)

12 min | Documentary

The radioactive element promethium evaded discovery due to its short half life until the Manhatten project when it was discovered as a product of Uranium fission.

Stars: Brady Haran, Martyn Poliakoff

9. DeepSkyVideos (2011– )
Episode: Supernova in M95 (NEWS) - Deep Sky Videos (2019)

9 min | Documentary

Brady calls on his colleagues to explain why astronomers are excited about an apparent supernova in nearby spiral galaxy messier 95.

Stars: Meghan Gray, Brady Haran, Mike Merrifield, Nik Szymanek

10. The Science Asylum (2013– )
Episode: Not all your Atoms are Stardust (2024)

20 min | Documentary

Nick describes the several different processes that produce the elements in and around us.

Stars: AwkwardM, Nick Lucid

11. One Strange Rock (2018)
Episode: Shield (2018)

TV-PG | 47 min | Documentary

The epic story of Earth's battle with the sun and how life thrives here against the odds.

Director: Nic Stacey | Stars: Will Smith, Jeff Hoffman, Leland Melvin, Ken Sims

Votes: 388