Following are some of my favorite examples from across disciplines
3Blue1Brown Grant Sanderson's famous YouTube channel. It's amazing!
Steve Brunton's (UW) youtube channel for control systems theory
Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee's biography of cancer Emperor of All Maladies
Steven Strogatz's (Cornell) book on calculus Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
The OG of behavioral economics books: Thinking Fast and Slow by Nobel-prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman
The pursuit of ignorance, a Ted talk by neuroscientist Prof. Stuart Firestein from Columbia
David Blight's (Yale) course on The [American] Civil War and Reconstruction, 1845-77