Movie

Way Beyond

2022 · 60 min

A quiet, cerebral drift through tunnels and talk, asking you to ponder what drives the urge to know.

Directed by: Pauline Julier
Genres: Documentary

Overview: The Future Circular Collider is the machine of the future. Thanks to it, we will finally be able to go back in time to the origin of our universe. But which way do we go to set up the largest scientific instrument of all time? Between metaphysics and underground tunnels, a story of the preparations or how men are ready to move mountains for more knowledge.

Your rating is saved. See your suggestions, or find titles like this one below.

Rate it, and Mesmero finds titles that feel like it. You do not need an account.

Search YouTube for a trailer

In the UKNo streaming, rental or purchase options known.

Directed by: Pauline Julier
Genres: Documentary

In your watch list

How it feels

Written by AI. It can be wrong.

Tone: earneststrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
eeriestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: science
ambition
technology
exploration
work
Places: workplace
countryside
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: documentary
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex none

All scales, 0 to 10

Scales, 0 to 10
Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	1
Horror	0
Humour	1
Realism	9
Romance	0
Tension	3
Darkness	2
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	5

Titles like Way Beyond

Movie

CERN

2013

A patient, observational gaze into a vast scientific workplace, quiet and cerebral, rewarding those who watch closely.

Earnest, slow-burn · about science and ambition · documentary

Via: earnest
science
ambition
documentary
Pacing: slow-burn
Attention: demanding
Runtime: 75 min

Details

CERNHidden from your suggestions.

Movie

!Aitsa

2023

A slow, contemplative documentary that sets ancient desert wisdom against gleaming scientific ambition, asking you to sit with the contrast and think.

Earnest · about science and exploration · documentary

Via: earnest
science
exploration
documentary
Pacing: measured
Attention: demanding
Runtime: 89 min

Details

!AitsaHidden from your suggestions.

Movie

Chasing Einstein

2019

A patient, curious look at brilliant people chasing an invisible answer, equal parts wonder and quiet doubt.

Earnest · about science and ambition · documentary

Via: earnest
science
ambition
documentary
Pacing: measured
Attention: engaged
Runtime: 82 min

Details

Chasing EinsteinHidden from your suggestions.

Movie

Telescope

2016

A calm, thoughtful look at the cosmos and the people who build the instruments to see it.

About science and ambition · documentary

Via: science
ambition
documentary
Pacing: measured
Attention: engaged
Runtime: 60 min

Details

TelescopeHidden from your suggestions.

Movie

Messengers

2025

A slow, meditative drift through remote underground spaces and cosmic ideas, blending quiet observation with poetic animation to evoke wonder and solitude.

Earnest, slow-burn · about science and exploration · documentary