Genius

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The life stories of history's greatest minds. From their days as young adults to their final years we see their discoveries, loves, relationships, causes, flaws and genius.

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Seasons

10 Episodes • Premiered 2017

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.”

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1. Chapter One

7.6

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.

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2. Chapter Two

7.7

After butting heads in class, Einstein falls in love with the determined Mileva Maric. Their affair raises eyebrows.

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3. Chapter Three

7.4

Einstein struggles to support his pregnant wife and land an academic post in a rigid world of tradition and protocol.

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4. Chapter Four

7.5

Albert Einstein and Mileva juggle raising a kids with his attempts to catch the eye of the scientific establishment.

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5. Chapter Five

7.2

Einstein begins to experience the academic life he coveted, but he falters in his familial responsibilities. He is reintroduced to his cousin Elsa.

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6. Chapter Six

7.2

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.

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7. Chapter Seven

6.8

In the wake of the war, patriotism corrupts one of Albert Einstein’s closest friends, Fritz Haber, pitting them against each other.

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8. Chapter Eight

7.8

Einstein and his wife Elsa attempt to flee Germany after the rise of the Nazis, but they face unexpected roadblocks.

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9. Chapter Nine

8.1

Albert Einstein settles into life in America, but dangers abroad continue to be a threat to both him and his former colleagues.

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10. Chapter Ten

8.3

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.

Cast

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Aaron Pierre

Malcolm X

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Kelvin Harrison, Jr.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Jayme Lawson

Betty Shabazz

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Weruche Opia

Coretta Scott King

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Gary Carr

Clyde X

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Hubert Point-Du Jour

Ralph Abernathy

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Ron Cephas Jones

Elijah Muhammad

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