Galileo Galilei

Caravaggio and My Mother the Pope (2013)

Actors: Jerry G. Angelo (actor), Michael Haboush (actor), Maria Olsen (actress), Rhoda Pell (actress), Michael Q. Schmidt (actor), Art Roberts (actor), Vincent De Paul (actor), Domiziano Arcangeli (actor), Lunden De'Leon (actress), Tommy Kijas (actor), Luis Fernandez-Gil (actor), Lejla Hadzimuratovic (miscellaneous crew), Lejla Hadzimuratovic (actress), Mike Muscat (actor), Lonnie 'Lono' Woodley (actor),

Galileo: Fighting in the Dawn of Modern Science (2013)

Actors: Michalis Tamboukas (actor), Adonis Vlisidis (actor), Panos Anestis (director), Panos Anestis (writer), Nikos Bournias (actor), Dimitris Petakos (actor), Dimitris Petakos (writer), Sofia Kotsikou (costume designer), Vassilis Papakonstantinou (producer), Nikos Papadopoulos (editor), Lida Arnellou (miscellaneous crew), Lida Arnellou (miscellaneous crew), Valia Lyratzi (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Galileo Galilei is one of the most renowned thinkers in the history of science and a highly emblematic figure of the 17th century. This was the era when modern science emerged. This documentary narrates the life of a man who turned his telescope towards the heavens and observed things that no one had seen before. His observations, experiments and mathematics paved a new method for the study of nature. However, the basic argument of this documentary is that Galileo succeeded not only because of his philosophical and mathematical achievements, but also because of his carefully chosen alliances. One of the defining characteristics of Florentine society throughout the centuries was a deeply-rooted system of patronage networks. Galileo benefited from these networks as he secured the patronage of Cosimo II de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscan, and constructed for himself a novel social and professional identity. As his fame and recognition grew, Galileo had intense confrontations with the philosophers in matters such as buoyancy, motion, free fall and some of his observations (the sun spots). The Aristotelian philosophers argued that all these were matters of philosophy, not mathematics. They never accepted Galileo as a natural philosopher because philosophers held a higher professional position than mathematicians. In the face of Galileo they saw a mathematician who tried to remove their philosophical status, exploiting the professional benefits arising from the title that Cosimo gave him. Through these confrontations and political pressure the Aristotelians forced the Catholic Church to judge the work of Galileo. The trial and conviction of Galileo was the outcome of exhausting social and political battles and not the result of an opposition between science and religion. The devout Catholic Galileo never wanted to replace the Bible and the Scriptures with a new science (after all, science did not exist at that time). However, Galileo was forced to kneel inside the church of Maria Sopra Minerva and repudiate the work and views of a lifetime. This documentary tells the story of a man who never retreated and had the persistence and courage to vindicate his intellectual identity.

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The Science of Blowjobs and Throbbing Hearts (2011)

Actors: Sean G. Tarjoto (actor), Boomer Tibbs (actor), Paul Bright (actor), Rob Cristiano (producer), Peter Hodgins (actor), Victoria Negri (actress), Stian Hafstad (director), Matt Garafalo (actor), Dennison Ramalho (actor), Stian Hafstad (writer), Fernando Frias (actor), Lindsay Tolbert (producer), Robert Gambino (actor), Donavon Dietz (actor), Jeffrey Smith (actor),

Plot: Inside the head of a geeky teenage boy, a group of scientists lead by Albert Einstein, are trying to find the ultimate approach to charm the boy's dream girl. They do the calculations, he acts them out. But he soon discovers that mathematical formulas might not be the best way to win a girl's heart.

Das Leben des Galileo Galilei (1978)

Actors: Victor Deiß (actor), Arno Wyzniewski (actor), Barbara Dittus (actress), Carmen-Maja Antoni (actress), Werner Dissel (actor), Siegfried Weiß (actor), Franz Viehmann (actor), Jaecki Schwarz (actor), Michael Gerber (actor), Stefan Lisewski (actor), Holger Mahlich (actor), Günter Naumann (actor), Hans-Peter Reinicke (actor), Doris Thalmer (actress), Ekkehard Schall (actor),

Galileo (1975)

Actors: Charles Laughton (writer), Joseph Losey (writer), Colin Blakely (actor), Patrick Magee (actor), Clive Revill (actor), Bertolt Brecht (writer), John Savident (actor), Michael Lonsdale (actor), Vernon Dobtcheff (actor), Edward Fox (actor), John Gielgud (actor), Tom Conti (actor), Michael Gough (actor), Richard Hartley (composer), Hanns Eisler (composer),

Plot: This bio-pic is about Galileo, the 17th century Italian who laid the foundations of modern science. Galileo made himself one of the world's first telescopes and discovered the moons of Jupiter. He supported Copernicus' theory that the Earth revolved around the Sun. This brought him in conflict with the Catholic Church. By threatening him with torture, the Church forced him to recant his views in front of a tribunal, and sentenced him to house arrest. However, Galileo's trials and theories inspired others like Newton and Kepler to prove that the Earth was not the centre of the Universe. Some years ago, the Pope accepted that Earth does revolve around the Sun and issued a rare apology for what the Church had done to Galileo, i.e., the Catholic Church recanted!

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Lamp at Midnight (1966)

Actors: George Schaefer (director), Melvyn Douglas (actor), Michael Hordern (actor), Graham Jarvis (actor), William Kerwin (actor), Roy Scheider (actor), George Voskovec (actor), David Wayne (actor), Kim Hunter (actress), George Schaefer (producer), Hurd Hatfield (actor), Thayer David (actor), Ralph Clanton (actor), Eric Berry (actor), Gaylord Cavallaro (actor),

Leben des Galilei (1962)

Actors: Hanns Eisler (composer), Bertolt Brecht (writer), Peter Lehmbrock (actor), Egon Monk (writer), Hartmut Reck (actor), Gyula Trebitsch (producer), Ernst Schröder (actor), Ulrich Matschoss (actor), Richard Lauffen (actor), Josef Dahmen (actor), Wolfgang Büttner (actor), Hans Hessling (actor), Hans Elwenspoek (actor), Egon Monk (director), Volker Brandt (actor),

Leben des Galilei (1947)

Actors: Peter Brocco (actor), Charles Laughton (actor), William Phipps (actor), Bertolt Brecht (writer), Charles Laughton (writer), Hanns Eisler (composer), Joseph Losey (director), Joseph Losey (miscellaneous crew), Hugo Haas (actor), Eda Reiss Merin (actress), Margarete Steffin (writer), Frances Heflin (actress), Lotte Goslar (miscellaneous crew), Ruth Berlau (director), Morton Wurtele (miscellaneous crew),