National Institute for Subatomic Physics

Movies & Animations

  • The film called the Mass mystery (Dutch language film from 2006)
  • The ATLAS film: gives a straightforward explanation about elementary particles and the research at CERN (Dutch language production)
  • The quest for Higgs particle, by Martin Veltman (in Dutch)
  • The Bohr model of the atom (1913), Werner Heisenberg's uncertainty principle (1927) and four other theories in quantum physics are visualised in short films from graphic designer Hellen Schmidt (In German)
  • In the short film Lords of the Ring, enthusiastic scientists give an exclusive underground guided tour at CERN where the particle accelerator LHC is being constructed. (in English)
  • Lectures for high school pupils during the European Master Class 2008 can be viewed here.
  • The press conference of 10 September 2008 can be viewed here as well
  • The Fantastic voyage of Nino the neutrino, in Italian with English subtitles.
  • Hunting for Higgs, The Matter with Antimatter. Lab reporter produced six beautiful films that describe these and other key aspects of the research at CERN (in English)
  • The Max Plank Institute in Germany has produced a number of DVDs that explain the LHC and the German research contribution to this. Watch the trailers for the films.
  • Find out more about ALICE and ATLAS on Youtube 
  • The ATLAS outreach group has released quite a bit of film material about the construction of the ATLAS detector at CERN.
  • A Quicktime VR movie of the Atlas Detector.
  • AtlasConstr1.avi; An animation of the construction. [57 Mb]
  • AtlasConstr2.avi; The webcam in the construction hall, with animations. [55 Mb]
  • AtlasMovieUK.avi; The ATLAS movie, in English. [157 Mb]