Einstein Revealed

I happen to be a scientist, and have always been an admirer of Albert Einstein, but I really knew little about him outside his contributions in Special Relativity and General Relativity, plus of course his most famous equation, E=Mcc. This film is mostly a biography, and it includes explanations that everyone can understand of his main discoveries. A German actor, Andrew Sachs, plays Albert Einstein, and in full makeup looks remarkably like him. The two hour NOVA film, now in two parts on DVD, includes still photos of Einstein as a child, as a student, as a young man, and at various stages through his adult life. The filming often cuts to the actor, who either muses about various events in his life, or reads from old letters and journals, as if Einstein himself were looking back upon his life and commenting. All in all a superb film, and one that can be appreciated by scientists and non-scientists alike. Einstein was a remarkable man, and his contributions opened up the study and understanding of our universe like no one had before him. It makes one stop to think, where would we be if he hadn't come along?