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The Full History of Albert Einstein: The Man Who Bent Light

Published Nov 4, 2026 · 41 min

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On 29 May 1919, on a rain-soaked island off West Africa, a British astronomer photographed the stars beside an eclipsed Sun to test a prediction made in Berlin: that gravity bends light.

Narration in this film is a synthetic, cloned voice. Sources and image credits are in the YouTube description.

Chapters

1. 00:00 Through cloud
2. 01:46 A Compass in Munich
3. 04:16 The Student Who Skipped Class
4. 06:28 Technical Expert, Third Class
5. 09:16 1905, Part One: Light in Pieces
6. 12:34 1905, Part Two: Whose Time?
7. 15:38 The Happiest Thought, and the Wrong Turn
8. 18:55 November 1915
9. 21:52 Two Islands, One Eclipse
10. 25:18 The Most Famous Man in Berlin
11. 28:11 Dice, and a Blunder
12. 31:54 Exile and the Letter
13. 35:10 The Unfinished Equation
14. 38:00 Testing a Dead Man's Theory

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