EINSTEIN REVEALED

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• Release Year: 1996
• Genre: Documentary
• Plot: Journey into the mind of a genius and visualize the thought experiments Albert Einstein could only imagine: mind-boggling meditations on light, time, and space that would forever change the way we view the universe. ; ; What was the secret of Einstein's scientific creativity? NOVA's two-hour special traces his extraordinary rise from a student who flunked his engineering exams to the world's most renowned physicist. This penetrating profile of a scientist who changed our vision of physical reality includes dramatic recreations and easy-to-understand animations of Einstein's landmark Theory of Relativity.; ; Through Einstein's own words, learn how--after using his wife, Mileva, as a sounding board for his early theories--the young patent clerk abandons 'the unpredictability of human relations.' Then, follow his ferocious quest to 'glimpse the order that lies hidden in nature' -- a search that catapults him to the forefront of modern physics, but at great personal cost.
• Cast: Andrew Sachs, F. Murray Abraham, Jürgen Renn, Robert Schulmann, Françoise Balibar, Julian Barbour, Abraham Pais, Martin Klein, Gabrielle Oppenheim, Michio Kaku, Peter Plesch, Peter Jones, Thomas Levenson
• Director: Peter Jones
• Runtime: 2:00
• Media Format: Series