Product Details

• Actors: Carl Sagan, Jaromír Hanzlík, Jonathan Fahn
• Format: Box set, Collector's Edition, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Subtitles: Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 7
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Cosmos Studios
• DVD Release Date: October 22, 2002
• Run Time: 780 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (267 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000055ZOB
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,914 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Cosmos: Carl Sagan" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Studio: Koch International Release Date: 10/22/2002

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

233 of 239 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hooray for Cosmos on DVD!, May 22, 2002

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Zack Davisson "japanreviewed" (Seattle, WA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cosmos: Carl Sagan (DVD)

This set is one of the main reasons why I got a DVD player. My VHS taps had actually broken from too many viewings of "Cosmos." This box-set is one of the all-around coolest DVDs I own. The packaging is as innovative as the series, allowing for quite a few disks to take up very little shelf space. (It is about the size of three DVD cases.) The disks average 2 episodes per disk. The digital sound and picture is perfect, and a great boon to this exceptional series. As an extra feature, the "updates" option fills in any scientific gaps.

As to "Cosmos" itself, like many people I could offer my testimony to it's quality. As a child (I think I was about 7 when I first saw it) "Cosmos" opened my mind to the possibilities of the Universe. I am glad that the information is still relevant today, and that the only thing dated about the production is Carl Sagan's turtlenecks.

Should I ever have children, "Cosmos" is the sort of thing I would like to share with them.

422 of 444 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best things ever on television, April 15, 2000

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Kathy W. - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cosmos [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The "Cosmos" series, along with Carl Sagan's books, prompted me to go back to school when my son was 9 to get a physics degree, to become a science writer and essayist, and to write two science books for children, the latest "How Come? Planet Earth" (Workman). I watched it with my son every week, and he was mesmerized. He later met Dr. Sagan in Ithaca, who called on this 10-year-old, his hand frantically waving, FIRST at a seminar of very distinguished adults.

"Cosmos" was sheer inspiration as well as brilliant education, the perfect antidote to a bad day, the ultimate escapist television. As each episode closed and the poignant theme music played, it would inevitably bring me to tears. I was lucky enough to purchase the entire set before it went out of production. It was the first thing my son, now 28, wanted to borrow when he came home for a visit recently. I miss Carl Sagan's presence in the world more than I can say, ....

102 of 104 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply the Best!, December 17, 1999

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Triton Sky (New England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cosmos [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I was fortunate to purchase all 13 episodes a few years ago before they became unavailable, and believe me it was difficult then to get them. I have learned the following from the Carl Sagan Productions website: The COSMOS series has recently been fully acquired by Carl Sagan Productions but it cannot be sold until the music rights have been re-cleared. We are planning to re-issue it on DVD and VHS after the legal work is complete. We will also be reissuing the album, Music of Cosmos, on CD. I am sorry none of these items is available at this time. --So hopefully it won't be much longer for these extraordinary programs to be available for purchase. In the series, Carl Sagan masterfully guides one through the wonders of our Universe and lets us see just who we are in it. From stars to micro-organisms, to trees and whales, to Johannes Kepler and the little-known, woman scientist named Hypatia from ancient Alexandria, to warnings of the perils of human aggression and foolishness of the past and perhaps future, and mostly of our striving, never-ending need to explore and understand through science; Sagan takes us on this journey. This is not just some science documentary, but rather, an experience that gives one a spirit, an appreciation, and a zest for science and understanding and mostly for being alive in this marvelous Universe. The photography is lovely. The music is full of wonderment. Sagan explains complex subjects to easy understanding (his greatest talent). When the videos become available again, I will be purchasing them again for fear of wearing the old ones out. They are great for everyone! The best purchase I ever made.