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?
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8:52 am CET on December 28th, 2006
thank you so much for posting this
10:03 am CET on January 10th, 2007
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
8:10 pm CET on January 20th, 2007
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
11:35 pm CEST on May 8th, 2007
pongan la wea luego
11:09 pm CEST on May 19th, 2007
Sagan would have been the first to make these videos freely available on the web. Sad state of affairs.
1:50 am CEST on May 16th, 2009
the most beautiful and pertinent messages given by a wonderful man. Truly I hope that the memory does live on in the heart of those who remember. Carl Sagan is a legend whose lifetime we lived in and who’s legacy we carry on. gawd luv ya mister sagan sir, you was one of the best of us.