Cosmos
Overview
Famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson provides clarity for the vision of the cosmos as he voyages across the universe with never-before-told stories that delve into the scientific concepts of the laws of gravity and the origins of space and time.
Seasons
These are the special features included on the Blu-ray set
E1
Celebrating Carl Sagan: A Selection from the Library of Congress Dedication
A great piece focusing on a bequest of Sagan's papers and notebooks to the Library of Congress. Seth MacFarlane and Ann Druyan are in attendance.
E2
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey at Comic-Con 2013
A first-time view of the renewed "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey" series by the San Diego Comic-Con 2013 audience. A panel composed of Ann Druyan, Dr. N...
E3
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey - The Voyage Continues
Elucidates how this new series built upon the foundation forged by Sagan while offering some fun behind the scenes looks at how things were filmed.
E4
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey - The Cosmic Calendar
Interactive Cosmic Calendar features Ann Druyan as host and voiceover artist in this compendium of information laid out on a timeline accessible by ch...
Renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson takes viewers on a journey through the infinite cosmos. Scientific concepts are presented clearly, with both skepticism and wonder, to give full effect.
E1
Standing Up in the Milky Way
The Ship of the Imagination, unfettered by ordinary limits on speed and size, drawn by the music of cosmic harmonies, can take us anywhere in space an...
E2
Some of the Things that Molecules Do
Host Neil deGrasse Tyson is on a voyage to explore the relatedness of all living things and the possible evolution of life in the cosmos. Go on a jour...
E3
When Knowledge Conquered Fear
There was a time, not so long ago, when natural events could only be understood as gestures of divine displeasure. We will witness the moment that all...
E4
A Sky Full of Ghosts
An exploration of how light, time and gravity combine to distort our perceptions of the universe. We eavesdrop on a series of walks along a beach on s...
E5
Hiding in the Light
The Ship of the Imagination travels back in time to reveal 11th century Europe and North Africa during the golden age of Islam, when brilliant physici...
E6
Deeper, Deeper, Deeper Still
The Ship of the Imagination ventures on an epic voyage to the bottom of a dewdrop to explore the universe on the smallest scale and observe exotic lif...
E7
The Clean Room
To determine the true age of the Earth, geochemist Clair Patterson developed the uranium-lead dating method to make an unprecedented discovery – calcu...
E8
Sisters of the Sun
Discover the remarkable story of Annie Jump Cannon and Cecilia Payne, two incredible women who challenged conventional wisdom and uncovered the real-l...
E9
The Lost Worlds of Planet Earth
The Ship of the Imagination embarks on a journey through space and time to grasp how the autobiography of the Earth is written in its atoms, its ocean...
E10
The Electric Boy
Travel to 19th century England and meet Michael Faraday, a child of poverty who grew up to invent the motor and the generator. His ideas about electri...
E11
The Immortals
The Ship of the Imagination travels across the cosmos to discover the possibility of beings that live forever and explain why other civilizations peri...
E12
The World Set Free
The Ship of the Imagination travels to our near neighbor Venus, where we begin our journey to discover the long history of global warming and the gree...
E13
Unafraid of the Dark
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...
Neil deGrasse Tyson returns as host to translate more revelations of science into a lavish transporting experience, taking audiences on a series of spiritual voyages of exploration. Previously uncharted realms are revealed, including lost worlds, worlds yet to come, and the worlds that humans may one day inhabit.
E1
Ladder to the Stars
An adventure spanning billions of years into the evolution of life and consciousness. A visit to a 100,000-year-old laboratory. The story of the chang...
E2
The Fleeting Grace of the Habitable Zone
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 o...
E3
Lost City of Life
A new vision of genesis at the bottom of the blood red sea of the infant Earth. And the story of the man who found the first clues to life's beginning...
E4
Vavilov
In the first half of the 20th century pioneering geneticist Nikolai Vavilov traveled 5 continents assembling a treasury of the worlds seeds. He dreame...
E5
The Cosmic Connectome
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 poignan...
E6
The Man of a Trillion Worlds
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 ...
E7
The Search for Intelligent Life on Earth
A revelation of the hidden underground network that is a collaboration of four kingdoms of life, and a true first contact story between humans and bei...
E8
The Sacrifice of Cassini
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 fift...
E9
Magic Without Lies
Meet the man who stumbled on a hole in the reality of quantum mechanics and the still-unfolding technology that made it possible.
E10
A Tale of Two Atoms
How a deadly embrace between science and state altered the fate of the world, and a gripping cautionary tale of mass casualty and unlikely survival.
E11
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
An exploration of human potential for change, concluding with the story of one of history's greatest monster and his virtuous transformation.
E12
Coming of Age In The Anthropocene
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.
E13
Seven Wonders of The New World
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.
