Galileo 1975 This biopic is about Galileo Galilei, the seventeenth century Italian who laid the foundations of modern science Galileo made himself one of the worlds first telescopes and discovered the moons of Jupiter He supported Copernicus theory that the Earth revolved around the Sun This brought him in conflict with the Catholic Church By threatening him with torture, the Church forced him to recant his views in front of a tribunal, and sentenced him to house arrest However, Galileos trials and theories inspired others like Sir Isaac Newton and Johannes Kepler to prove that the Earth was not the center of the universe Some years ago, the Pope accepted that Earth does revolve around the Sun and issued a rare apology for what the Church had done to Galileo The Catholic Church recanted