I’m trying to be helpful and listing some beautiful YouTube videos recommended by others, sort them by category and link to them. 🙂
Inspired by Austen Allred’s tweet. What’s the most beautiful YouTube video you’ve ever seen?
Science
- Richard Feynman: Can Machines Think?
- Carolyn Porco speaks about the Cassini-Huygens Mission
- Falcon Heavy & Starman
- Gigapixels of Andromeda [4K]
- Hacking Reality
- Kurzgesagt
- ORBIT – A Journey Around Earth in Real Time
- Rocket launch seen from space – time lapse by ISS astronaut (extended)
- The Egg – A Short Story
- The Most Astounding Fact – Neil deGrasse Tyson
- The Untold Story Behind Astroneer’s Difficult Development
- TIMELAPSE OF THE FUTURE: A Journey to the End of Time
- Wanderers – a short film by Erik Wernquist
- We Are Here: The Pale Blue Dot
- We’re the Last Humans Left
Nature
- Attenborough: the amazing Lyre Bird sings like a chainsaw!
- Eagle owl in flight high speed camera AMAZING slow motion camera
- Fox Snow Dive – Yellowstone – BBC Two
- GoPro Awards: Sharks, Dolphins, Penguins and Whales
- How Wolves Change Rivers
- Nature Planet | Narrated by Adam Sandler
- Planet Earth: Blue Planet II | Radiohead & Hans Zimmer
- Puffer Fish Constructs A Masterpiece of Love – BBC Earth
- Yosemitebear Mountain Double Rainbow 1-8-10
Music
- ‘American Beauty’ – Thomas Newman (from the ‘plastic bag scene’)
- Andrea Bocelli: Amazing Grace – Music For Hope (Live From Duomo di Milano)
- Avatar’s Love (Kalimba Cover) (My recommendation)
- Can’t Help Falling In Love on a Kalimba
- Classic
- Darude – Sandstorm
- FKJ live at Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia for Cercle
- Gregory Alan Isakov covers “The Trapeze Swinger”
- I Saw A Tiger By Joe Exotic
- Johnny Cash – Hurt
- Kanye West – Runaway (Full-length Film)
- KSHMR & Lost Stories – Bombay Dreams [feat. Kavita Seth]
- Lil Dicky – Earth
- Lil Dicky Freestyle on Sway In The Morning
- Music using ONLY sounds from Windows XP and 98!
- OK Go – This Too Shall Pass – Rube Goldberg Machine
- Radiohead “All I Need”
- Sing Second – Army/Navy 2017 [4K]
- Sigur Rós – Valtari
- The Third and The Seventh HD
- This is Your Fight Song (Rachel Platten Scottish Cover) – The Piano Guys
- Потап и Настя – Чумачечая Весна
Sports & Games
- Canyons deep powder skiing P.O.V
- The Fjord
- Kobe Bryant vs Michael Jordan – Identical Plays
- Zinedine Zidane The Maestro Of The Decade
Travel, Adventure etc
- 30 Days Timelapse at Sea
- 50 years off-grid: architect-maker paradise amid NorCal redwoods
- Fire On The Mountain – Official Grateful Dead & Chris Benchetler Film
- Hiking 60 Miles Alone in Hornstrandir Iceland
- Make It Count
- Oh, the Places You’ll Go at Burning Man!
- One Breath Around The World
- The HD HERO2: Almost as Rad as the HERO3
- GoPro HERO3: Almost as Epic as the HERO3+
- GoPro HERO5 + Karma: The Launch in 4K
- seoul_wave
- The North Face presents: Lhotse ft. Hilaree Nelson and Jim Morrison
- Tim Kellner
- Video of the Year: Best Mountain Bike Shot Ever
- Watchtower of Turkey
- 李子柒 Liziqi
Misc
- Apple WWDC 2012 – Keynote Introductory Video
- A Decade at the Movies (2010 – 2019)
- Building the Future
- But what is a Neural Network? | Deep learning, chapter 1
- Ben takes a photo of himself everyday
- Giving is the best communication
- How to Make Perfect Egg that Looks like Silk
- Johnnie Walker – Dear Brother
- Kiwi!
- Ten Meter Tower | NYT Op-Docs
- Visualizing quaternions (4d numbers) with stereographic projection
