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Einstein
10 Episodes2017
Season one charts how Albert Einstein—an imaginative, rebellious patent clerk, who couldn’t get a teaching job or a doctorate—unlocked the mysteries of the atom and the universe. Based on Walter Isaacson’s critically acclaimed book “Einstein: His Life and Universe.”
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Episodes (10)
Ep 1
Chapter One
★7.7
2017-04-25•65m
The story of Albert Einstein, seen through glimpses of his twilight years and flashbacks to his time as a student in Munich and Zürich in the 1890s.
Ep 2
Chapter Two
★7.8
2017-05-02•51m
After butting heads in class, Einstein falls in love with the determined Mileva Maric. Their affair raises eyebrows.
Ep 3
Chapter Three
★7.6
2017-05-09•51m
Einstein struggles to support his pregnant wife and land an academic post in a rigid world of tradition and protocol.
Ep 4
Chapter Four
★7.7
2017-05-16•51m
Albert Einstein and Mileva juggle raising a kids with his attempts to catch the eye of the scientific establishment.
Ep 5
Chapter Five
★7.4
2017-05-23•51m
Einstein begins to experience the academic life he coveted, but he falters in his familial responsibilities. He is reintroduced to his cousin Elsa.
Ep 6
Chapter Six
★7.6
2017-05-30•51m
Einstein moves his family for work, and to be closer to his new love, Elsa. He sets out to prove his theory as his marriage reaches a breaking point.
Ep 7
Chapter Seven
★6.8
2017-06-06•51m
In the wake of the war, patriotism corrupts one of Albert Einstein’s closest friends, Fritz Haber, pitting them against each other.
Ep 8
Chapter Eight
★7.8
2017-06-13•51m
Einstein and his wife Elsa attempt to flee Germany after the rise of the Nazis, but they face unexpected roadblocks.
Ep 9
Chapter Nine
★8.3
2017-06-20•52m
Albert Einstein settles into life in America, but dangers abroad continue to be a threat to both him and his former colleagues.
Ep 10
Chapter Ten
★8.4
2017-06-27•55m
After the atomic bomb is dropped and World War II draws to a close, Einstein assumes the role of world citizen in his twilight years.