Galileo (1975)

Challenged by a new student tutor and theorist Galileo coopts emerging telescope technology and discovers irrefutable proof of the heretical notion that the earth is not the center of the universe But in a rigid society ruled by an uneasy alliance of aristocracy and clergy already undermined by the Plague and the Reformation science is a threat and enlightenment is a luxury Faced with either death at the hands of the Inquisition or recantation to a hypocritical but allpowerful Papacy Galileo must choose between his own life and the restless scientific curiosity that he has spurned family friends and wealth to pursue