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: 3720 s
Cast: Cain Alexander, Kurt Bell, Robert R. Bell

Directed by Dan Handley

TV-14

2012 62m[Documentary](/on-demand/category/documentary)

8.5

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.