Top 5 ENGINEERING MOVIES

Engineering movies every engineer and scientist should watch

As an engineer you’re  looking for innovations and new technology to create  you need inspiration. The power of a moving picture to inspire and also entertain knows no bound .

Here are 5 of the best movies to inspire your life, interest towards science and engineering.

The man who knew infinity

The story of Srinivasa Ramanujan, a poor Indian with limited formal education. Ramanujan drafted letters to leading mathematicians at Cambridge University, he spent nearly five years in Cambridge studying with famous English mathematician G. H. Hardy before he tragically contracted tuberculosis and died at the age of 32. Ramunujan made contributions to Number Theory and infinite series that are still used by mathematicians today.

The social network

This movie narrates the story of the creator of the popular social network facebook Mark Zuckerberg. He is sued by two brothers who claimed he stole their idea, and the co-founder who was later kicked out of the business.

Hidden figures

This tells the untold story of three brillant African Amercian women Katherine Jonson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson working at NASA. They were brains behind the launch into orbit of astronaut John Glenn. which turned around the space race.

Immitation Game

During World war II  English mathematical genius Alan Turing  leads a team of crypt analysts  working feverishly to break the Germans’ notorious Enigma code.

Matrix

The movie narrates a fictional future in which machines with artificial intelligence took over the world and use humans as an energy resource. In order to control their living batteries the mean robots simulate their live in their dreams. However there are a few people who know the truth and fight against the machines in order to find the “chosen one” who will finally rescue human kind…