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2021 Sarasota Film Festival

LIGO

2019• 1 hr 24 min• Germany, Italy, Sweden, United States• English

About this film

LIGO tells the thrilling inside story of the discovery of gravitational waves from deep space (which earned this film's principal subjects an immediate 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics). The documentary begins with its filmmaker’s innocent arrival at the LIGO Louisiana observatory in September of 2015, and it is then almost immediately swept up in one of the greatest scientific sagas in recent history.

Credits

Director
Les Guthman
Screenwriter
Les Guthman
Cast
Kip Thorne / Rai Weiss / Barry Barish
Feature FilmScienceDocumentary

Trailer

LIGO
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