Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980)
- Directed by
- Adrian Malone
- Genre
- popular science, documentary television program
- Country
- United States
- Length
- 1 season, 13 episodes
- Rated
- TP
- Rating
- 8.7 of 10 from 443 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Host Carl Sagan presents a science documentary series covering cosmology and the origin of life. He explains complex scientific topics with wonder and clear language.
awe-inspiringthoughtfulcontemplativeeducationalsoberwonder-filledlyricalexpansive
What happens
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage is a 1980 science documentary television series written by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, and Steven Soter, with Sagan as presenter. It was executive-produced by Adrian Malone, produced by David Kennard, Geoffrey Haines-Stiles, and Gregory Andorfer, and directed by the producers, David Oyster, Richard Wells, Tom Weidlinger, and others. It covers a wide range of scientific subjects, especially cosmology and its connection to the origin of life. Owing to its bestselling companion book and soundtrack album using the title, Cosmos, the series is widely known by this title, with the subtitle omitted from home video packaging. The subtitle began to be used more frequently in the 2010s to differentiate it from the sequel series that followed. The series was first broadcast by the Public Broadcasting Service in 1980, and was the most widely watched series in the history of American public television until The Civil War (1990). As of 2009, it was still the most widely watched PBS series in the world. It won two Emmys and a Peabody Award, and has since been broadcast in more than 60 countries and seen by over 500 million people. A book was also published to accompany the series. Cosmos: A Personal Voyage has been considered highly significant since its broadcast; David Itzkoff of The New York Times described it as "a watershed moment for science-themed television programming". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
More like this
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How the Universe Works (2010)
Wonders of the Solar System (2010)
The Universe (2007)
Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking (2010)
Cosmos: Possible Worlds (2020)- Carl Sagan: We Are Made of Star Stuff
Astronarium (2015)- More like this series, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.