Season 1
11 episodes
54 min. per episode
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Visionaries battle against societal norms, risking everything to revolutionize science and inspire future generations through their groundbreaking innovations.
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Henryk Magnuski was an outstanding Polish scientist whose discoveries had a significant impact on the fate of World War II and thus the lives of millions of people. During World War II, he accidentally stays in the United States. There he began working on his most famous discoveries: a walkie-talkie radio station and a beacon that guided planes to airports. After the war, it was impossible to talk about someone working for the USA in Poland at all. Later, years later, when the political situation changed, Magnuski was forgotten.
A film portrait of a brilliant scientist and a great Polish patriot - chemist and metallurgist Jan Czochralski. His research and scientific work from the beginning of the 20th century laid the foundations for the modern electronics and photovoltaic industry based on single-crystalline semiconductors, which are manufactured using the Czochralski method - widely known in scientific circles around the world.
A historical documentary ballad, with the significant subtitle "Rebellious visionaries". Father Czeslaw and son Tadeusz devoted everything to their design passions and paid a high price for it. The film tells the story of the great friendship of two generations of geniuses who blazed trails in pioneering fields: father Czeslaw - the "Polish Icarus", created the first flying machines, and son Tadeusz - the first Polish passenger cars, the famous CWS. Together they tried to build the first Polish helicopter. They were accompanied, like all Poles after regaining independence in 1918, by great enthusiasm, faith and sincere devotion to the country. Tadeusz brought his knowledge and education straight from Paris, where he abandoned a brilliant career to serve a free country. Here he built the FT-B armored car, which supported the Polish victory in the Polish-Soviet War in 1920. Their passions and dreams were cut short by the tragedy of World War II almost at the same time. Son Tadeusz, a rebellious patriot, died in Auschwitz, and father Czeslaw died alone shortly after him. Forgotten for years, they were still a legend in narrow circles of specialists. Today, through film, the legend comes alive for everyone.
Born in Kraków, Józef Hofmann was the son of a conductor, pianist and composer, and a vaudeville singer. At the age of 11, he gave his first concert at Carnegie Hall. To this day, no other pianist has performed as many solo recitals in this New York concert hall as Hofmann. The little boy grew up to be an unrivaled interpreter of Chopin, a teacher, a composer, an avid motorist and a sportsman. Sergei Rachmaninov considered him the greatest pianist in the world. Extraordinary musical talent went hand in hand with technical talent. Hofmann patented over 70 inventions, mainly related to the construction of a piano and a car.
Physician, bacteriologist, founder of the Polish school of immunology. He introduced the determination of blood groups and the Rh factor, discovered the causes of serological conflict and developed the principles of blood transfusion. Ludwik Hirszfeld was born in Warsaw and studied medicine in Germany. His discoveries in the field of bacteriology and immunology have contributed and continue to contribute to saving millions of human lives around the world. During World War I, he fought the epidemic of typhus in Serbia, for which he received honorary citizenship from the king of that country. He developed the division of blood into groups (O, A, B, AB), determined the Rh factor and discovered the rules of its inheritance. He explained the causes of serological conflict between mother and fetus, for which he was nominated for the Nobel Prize. During World War II, he treated typhus patients in the Warsaw ghetto.
A series of documentary films showing the lives and achievements of Polish scientists and inventors who operated in the first half of the 20th century. Their inventions or research contributed to the development of civilization in the fields of science, engineering and medicine. A hand-held film camera, a bulletproof vest, the basics of microprocessor production, blood group determination, walkie-talkies and color photography are just a few examples of discoveries and inventions that benefit the whole world.