Galileo
Challenged by a new student, tutor and theorist Galileo co-opts emerging telescope technology and discovers irrefutable proof of the heretical notion that the earth is not the center of the universe. But in a rigid society ruled by an uneasy alliance of aristocracy and clergy already undermined by the Plague and the Reformation, science is a threat and enlightenment is a luxury. Faced with either death at the hands of the Inquisition or recantation to a hypocritical but all-powerful Papacy, Galileo must choose between his own life and the restless scientific curiosity that he has spurned family, friends, and wealth to pursue.
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Genre: History
Director: Joseph Losey
Actors: Clive Revill, Colin Blakely, Edward Fox, Georgia Brown, John Gielgud, Margaret Leighton, Michael Gough, Michael Lonsdale, Richard O'Callaghan, Topol
