The BEST episodes written by David Axlerod
#1 - Galileo's Battle For The Heavens
NOVA - Season 29 - Episode 12
In this two-hour special, NOVA celebrates the story of the father of modern science and his struggle to get Church authorities to accept the truth of his astonishing discoveries. The program is based on Dava Sobel's bestselling book, Galileo's Daughter, which reveals a new side to the famously stubborn scientist—that his closest confidante was his illegitimate daughter, Sister Maria Celeste, a cloistered nun.
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American Experience - Season 17 - Episode 7
America lays a telegraph cable across the Atlantic and enables almost-instant communication with Europe for the first time in history.
#3 - Sinking The Supership
NOVA - Season 32 - Episode 9
The search for the wreck of the Yamato, the largest and mightiest battleship ever floated and the pride of the Japanese Imperial Fleet. Constructed in absolute secrecy and sunk by American planes toward the end of World War II, her rapid demise had been a mystery, rather like a military Titanic.
#4 - Bataan Rescue
American Experience - Season 15 - Episode 12
The daring rescue by US Army Rangers of American POWs captured on Bataan as World War II came to a close.