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Cosmos

2014 Ended

8.5/10 1,772 votes

Documentary

Famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson provides clarity for the vision of the cosmos as he voyages across the universe with never-before-told stories that delve into the scientific concepts of the laws of gravity and the origins of space and time.

Created by:: Ann Druyan, Steven Soter
Cast:: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Ann Druyan
Language:: English
Country:: United States of America
Network:: FOX, National Geographic

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3 available

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E01

Episode 1

★ 8.0

Ladder to the Stars

2020-03-09 · 43m

An adventure spanning billions of years into the evolution of life and consciousness. A visit to a 100,000-year-old laboratory. The story of the change in life-style that radically altered human existence and the life of the heretic who found god in the book of nature, opening our way to the stars.

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E02

Episode 2

★ 8.4

The Fleeting Grace of the Habitable Zone

2020-03-09 · 43m

There is no refuge from change in the cosmos. There will come a time in the life of the Sun when Earth will no longer be a home for us. The story of our ancestors who rose to a comparable challenge and a long-term vision of our future on other worlds.

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E03

Episode 3

★ 8.0

Lost City of Life

2020-03-16 · 43m

A new vision of genesis at the bottom of the blood red sea of the infant Earth. And the story of the man who found the first clues to life's beginning in a green jewel. As he searched for life's origin, he risked his own, daring to toy with his Nazi tormentors.

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E04

Episode 4

★ 8.2

Vavilov

2020-03-16 · 43m

In the first half of the 20th century pioneering geneticist Nikolai Vavilov traveled 5 continents assembling a treasury of the worlds seeds. He dreamed that science could be the means to end hunger. His refusal to tell a scientific lie cost him his life. The heroism of his colleagues and its direct impact on your life is one of the most stirring stories in the history of science.

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E05

Episode 5

★ 7.7

The Cosmic Connectome

2020-03-23 · 43m

A voyage of discovery through the evolution of consciousness with stops in ancient Greece, a visit to the largest life form on Earth, into the poignant dream of an abandoned orphan that opened the way to our understanding of the architecture of thought and beyond to a vision of a galactic network of thought.

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E06

Episode 6

★ 7.9

The Man of a Trillion Worlds

2020-03-23 · 43m

A child lies on the rug of a tenement dreaming of interstellar adventures. At the dawn of the space age, a young Carl Sagan's career is forged in the clash of his mentors, two scientific titans. Sagan goes on realize his childhood dreams, to carry their research forward and communicate its significance to the whole world.

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E07

Episode 7

★ 8.1

The Search for Intelligent Life on Earth

2020-03-30 · 43m

A revelation of the hidden underground network that is a collaboration of four kingdoms of life, and a true first contact story between humans and beings who communicate in a symbolic language and have maintained a representative democracy for many tens of millions of years.

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E08

Episode 8

★ 8.4

The Sacrifice of Cassini

2020-03-30 · 43m

The mysterious untold story of the scientist who figured out how to go the Moon while fighting for his life in a WWI trench. He wrote a letter to fifty years in the future. It made the Apollo Mission possible. And the saga of the twenty-year long odyssey of a robotic explorer ordered to commit suicide on another world.

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