8.6/1019 votes#1 - Unafraid of the Dark
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 6/8/2014
The Ship of the Imagination makes a final journey to explore one of the biggest mysteries of the universe: dark energy. Meet one of science's greatest unsung heroes, Fritz Zwicky, whose prediction of supernovas paved the way for our larger understanding of dark energy, the unknown force in the universe that overwhelms gravity on the grandest scale. On our final voyage, discover the romantic message embedded in Voyager's Interstellar Golden Record and contemplate the spiritual experience of life on Earth as our cosmic journey concludes with Carl Sagan's unforgettable meditation, The Pale Blue Dot.
Director: Ann Druyan
Writer: Steven Soter
8.4/109 votes#2 - The Sacrifice of Cassini
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 3/30/2020
The mysterious untold story of the scientist who figured out how to go the Moon while fighting for his life in a WWI trench. He wrote a letter to fifty years in the future. It made the Apollo Mission possible. And the saga of the twenty-year long odyssey of a robotic explorer ordered to commit suicide on another world.
Director: Ann Druyan
Writer: Ann Druyan
8.3/1010 votes#3 - Vavilov
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 3/16/2020
In the first half of the 20th century pioneering geneticist Nikolai Vavilov traveled 5 continents assembling a treasury of the worlds seeds. He dreamed that science could be the means to end hunger. His refusal to tell a scientific lie cost him his life. The heroism of his colleagues and its direct impact on your life is one of the most stirring stories in the history of science.
Director: Ann Druyan
Writer: Ann Druyan
8.2/1012 votes#4 - The Fleeting Grace of the Habitable Zone
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 3/9/2020
There is no refuge from change in the cosmos. There will come a time in the life of the Sun when Earth will no longer be a home for us. The story of our ancestors who rose to a comparable challenge and a long-term vision of our future on other worlds.
Director: Ann Druyan
Writer: Ann Druyan
8.0/108 votes#5 - Coming of Age In The Anthropocene
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 4/13/2020
A baby is born on the day the show premieres. What kind of world can she expect to grow up in? One of her possible futures is explored.
Director: Ann Druyan
Writer: Ann Druyan
7.8/109 votes#6 - The Man of a Trillion Worlds
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 3/23/2020
A child lies on the rug of a tenement dreaming of interstellar adventures. At the dawn of the space age, a young Carl Sagan's career is forged in the clash of his mentors, two scientific titans. Sagan goes on realize his childhood dreams, to carry their research forward and communicate its significance to the whole world.
Director: Ann Druyan
Writer: Ann Druyan
7.6/109 votes#7 - The Cosmic Connectome
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 3/23/2020
A voyage of discovery through the evolution of consciousness with stops in ancient Greece, a visit to the largest life form on Earth, into the poignant dream of an abandoned orphan that opened the way to our understanding of the architecture of thought and beyond to a vision of a galactic network of thought.
Director: Ann Druyan
Writer: Ann Druyan
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"Unafraid of the Dark" is the best rated episode directed by Ann Druyan. It scored 8.632/10 based on 19 votes. It was written by Steven Soter. It aired on 6/8/2014 and is rated 0.2 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Sacrifice of Cassini".