Undaunted: The Forgotten Giants of the Allegheny Observatory

Name: Undaunted: The Forgotten Giants of the Allegheny Observatory
Director: Dan Handley
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2012-04-18
Duration: 1 h 2 min
Rating: 0
Cast: Cain Alexander, Kurt Bell, Robert R. Bell, Len Caric, David Conrad

Directed by Dan Handley

Documentary

20121h 2m

Overview

This film tells the surprising story of how the Allegheny Observatory has been a world leader in the study of the stars since the 1860s. Self-educated, and often facing unrelenting hardships, the people associated with the Allegheny Observatory defied the odds to make enormous contributions to the founding of astrophysics and early aviation.