NOVA - Galileo's Battle for the Heavens
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Actor: Stacy Keach; Peter Thomas (VI); Don WescottDirector: Nova
Brand: WGBH HOME VIDEO
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 120 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-03-28
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: WGBH Boston
Product features:
- 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
DVD Reviews of NOVA - Galileo's Battle for the Heavens
DVD Review: Galileo
Summary: 5 Stars
Brings history to life for middle and high school students as well as myself. It arrived in perfect condition and sooner than promised.DVD Review: Galileo's battle....
Summary: 3 Stars
This is a well made documentary and I enjoyed watching it. However, the actor who played Galileo I felt was somewhat miscast and the re-enacted scenes were a little overlong, but it is in my opinion still worth a look. DVD Review: Comment on Galileo's Battle for the Heavens
Summary: 5 Stars
An excellent and entertaining short documentary film on one of history's great minds. Understanding how Galileo thought is part of understanding the history and philosophy of science and physics in particular.DVD Review: Educating and interesting about the life and works of Galileo
Summary: 4 Stars
This is another good demonstration of how religious dogma has been trying to prevent scientific thought. For hundreds of years since Galieo this battle continued. It still continues in the 21st century around the world. For example, even today some religions in some countries are trying to prevent Charles Darwin's theory of evolution from being taught in schools.
Anyway, this documentary about Galileo is a very good source for students doing research and preparing term papers about this great pioneer of science.
DVD Review: Too Much Drama, Not enough Documentary
Summary: 4 Stars
This follows the format that is used on many Nova programs of having a historic figure portrayed by an actor. It's a good program, very entertaining but it seemed to me that they spent too much time on the dramatic presentation and not quite enough on the science behind Galileo's work. I gave it four stars and feel that it is worth watching but if you are like me you will have seen plenty of Galileo's character by the end of the program.
Description 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.
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