NOVA - Galileo's Battle for the Heavens
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Actor: Stacy Keach; Peter Thomas (VI); Don WescottDirector: Nova
Brand: WGBH BOSTON VIDEO
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 120 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-03-28
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: WGBH Boston
Movie Reviews of NOVA - Galileo's Battle for the Heavens
Movie Review: engaging, entertaining, and informative
Summary: 5 Stars
I've been enjoying learning about influential scientists lately, and this was a good resource in my self-education. It was really well made, combining standard documentary techniques with reenactments of episodes from Galileo's life, making for a program that's very informative and also easy to watch. I highly recommend it to anyone with an interest in the history of science.
Summary of NOVA - Galileo's Battle for the Heavens
At a time when heretics were burned alive for dissent scientist Galileo Galilei risked his life to advance his revolutionary concepts of the universe. British actor Simon Callow (Shakespeare in Love Four Weddings and a Funeral) brings Galileo to life humanizing the great thinker s passion intelligence and arrogance while depicting his frustrations with fellow philosophers and scientists and with Roman Catholic church leaders. Based on Dava Sobel s best-selling biography Galileo s Daughter this two-hour film offers a vivid re-imagining of Galileo s incredible achievements that forever changed the way we view our place in the universe. It also investigates the momentous personal and spiritual conflicts Galileo faced- most especially in defending the controversial theory that the earth revolves around the sun. Join noted Galileo authorities and experience the remarkable life behind the discoveries and see letters from his illegitimate daughter Maria Celeste a cloistered nun have shed new light on Galileo s pioneering telescopic observations his fateful Inquisition trial for heresy and life in the seventeenth century. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Age:?7+ UPC:?783421408692 Manufacturer No:?WG40869Documentary DVD Video
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