Einstein and Eddington (2008)

Directors

Philip Martin

Cast

David Tennant, Andy Serkis, Lucy Cohu, Jim Broadbent, Rebecca Hall, Jodhi May, Donald Sumpter, Anton Lesser, John Bowe, Kika Markham, Philip Whitchurch, Richard McCabe, Lucy Briers, Paul Brooke

The story

In 1914, at the outbreak of the First World War, Eddington is appointed chief astronomer at Cambridge by Sir Oliver Lodge and instructed to research Einstein's work and defend the Newtonian status quo. Meanwhile, Einstein is lured back from Zürich to the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin in an attempt to aid the war effort by embarrassing Britain by disproving the work of its great scientist Isaac Newton. A Quaker and therefore unable to go to war, Eddington sets out to bid farewell to his love interest William Marston, as the latter goes off to war as an officer, but just misses Marston's train.

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