Overview
Total Episodes: 10
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.”
Episode 1
Runtime: 65m
2017-04-26
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.
Episode 2
Runtime: 51m
2017-05-03
After butting heads in class, Einstein falls in love with the determined Mileva Maric. Their affair raises eyebrows.
Episode 3
Runtime: 51m
2017-05-10
Einstein struggles to support his pregnant wife and land an academic post in a rigid world of tradition and protocol.
Episode 4
Runtime: 51m
2017-05-17
Albert Einstein and Mileva juggle raising a kids with his attempts to catch the eye of the scientific establishment.
Episode 5
Runtime: 51m
2017-05-24
Einstein begins to experience the academic life he coveted, but he falters in his familial responsibilities. He is reintroduced to his cousin Elsa.
Episode 6
Runtime: 51m
2017-05-31
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.
Episode 7
Runtime: 51m
2017-06-07
In the wake of the war, patriotism corrupts one of Albert Einstein’s closest friends, Fritz Haber, pitting them against each other.
Episode 8
Runtime: 51m
2017-06-14
Einstein and his wife Elsa attempt to flee Germany after the rise of the Nazis, but they face unexpected roadblocks.
Episode 9
Runtime: 52m
2017-06-21
Albert Einstein settles into life in America, but dangers abroad continue to be a threat to both him and his former colleagues.
Episode 10
Runtime: 55m
2017-06-28
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.