The BEST episodes directed by Ann Druyan
#1 - Unafraid of the Dark
Cosmos (2014) - Season 1 - Episode 13
The Ship of the Imagination makes a final journey to explore one of the biggest mysteries of the universe: dark energy. Meet one of science's greatest unsung heroes, Fritz Zwicky, whose prediction of supernovas paved the way for our larger understanding of dark energy, the unknown force in the universe that overwhelms gravity on the grandest scale. On our final voyage, discover the romantic message embedded in Voyager's Interstellar Golden Record and contemplate the spiritual experience of life on Earth as our cosmic journey concludes with Carl Sagan's unforgettable meditation, The Pale Blue Dot.
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#2 - The Sacrifice of Cassini
Cosmos (2014) - Season 2 - Episode 8
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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#3 - Vavilov
Cosmos (2014) - Season 2 - Episode 4
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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#4 - The Fleeting Grace of the Habitable Zone
Cosmos (2014) - Season 2 - Episode 2
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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#5 - The Man of a Trillion Worlds
Cosmos (2014) - Season 2 - Episode 6
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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#6 - Coming of Age In The Anthropocene
Cosmos (2014) - Season 2 - Episode 12
A baby is born on the day the show premieres. What kind of world can she expect to grow up in? One of her possible futures is explored.
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#7 - Seven Wonders of The New World
Cosmos (2014) - Season 2 - Episode 13
Take a trip to the 2039 New York World’s Fair, where the problems we now consider hopeless have been solved and thrilling possibilities exist.
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#8 - The Cosmic Connectome
Cosmos (2014) - Season 2 - Episode 5
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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