Marie Curie(1977)

Marie Curie is a BBC mini-series starring Jane Lapotaire as the groundbreaking physicist who revolutionized science through her research into radioactivity. The drama follows her landmark discovery of radium and her unprecedented wins of two Nobel Prizes—one in Physics, one in Chemistry. Beyond the laboratory, the series explores the personal toll of her ambition: the devastating loss of her husband Pierre (Nigel Hawthorne) and the scandalous affairs that followed, which threatened to overshadow her scientific legacy. Marie Curie captures both the triumph of discovery and the human cost of breaking barriers in early twentieth-century science.