Watch Carl Sagan’s epic documentary, Cosmos: A Personal Voyage


Cosmos

Hold on to your bandwidth, cause this is a monster post. Cosmos: A Pesonal Voyage was a 13-part documentary series studying the origin of life and our place in the universe, produced in 1978 and 1979 in Los Angeles by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan and Steven Soter for PBS. The budget was huge for a public-television documentary at the time, clocking in at roughly $8.3 million US, with it being rumoured that the LA affiliate, KCET, went into heavy debt due to it’s production. But it all worked out in the end, with the documentary being a huge hit, winning an Emmy and Peabody Award and being broadcast in more than 60 countries by over 600 million people. Cosmos was the most widely watched series in the history of public television until the 1990’s Civil War documentary.

Watch all 13 episodes of Carl Sagan’s “Cosmos: A Peronsal Voyage” after the jump..

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Episode 1 - The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean

Episode 2 - One Voice in the Cosmic Fugue

Episode 3 - The Harmony of the Worlds

Episode 4 - Heaven and Hell

Episode 5 - Blues for a Red Planet

Episode 6 - Travelers’ Tales

Episode 7 - The Backbone of Night

Episode 8 - Journeys in Space and Time

Episode 9 - The Lives of the Stars

Episode 10 - The Edge of Forever

Episode 11 - The Persistence of Memory

Episode 12 - Encyclopedia Galactica

Episode 13 - Who Speaks for Earth?

September 28th in Astronomy, Documentary, Video | Email this | 5 comments

thank you so much for posting this

Comment by nicole — December 28, 2006 @ 8:52 am CET

too bad google video took them down… does anyone know some other site from which i can download them for my ipod? feel free to send me an e-mail at theculture [Email address: theculture #AT# gmail.com - replace #AT# with @ ]

peace

Comment by kai — January 10, 2007 @ 10:03 am CET

Hi,

When will you make available the cosmos series again by Carl Sagan? I see it here on the page for it, and the vid panels with titles, but the vids won’t play. Can you please bring them up again? I’m desperate to see them again. Email me ur reply

Thanks..

Chris

Comment by Chris — January 20, 2007 @ 8:10 pm CET

pongan la wea luego

Comment by donal — May 8, 2007 @ 11:35 pm CEST

Sagan would have been the first to make these videos freely available on the web. Sad state of affairs.

Comment by Jonathon Burman — May 19, 2007 @ 11:09 pm CEST

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