Connections 1
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Actor: James BurkeDirector: Mick Jackson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Published)
Format: NTSC
Running Time: 500 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-03-01
Studio: Ambrose Video Publishing, Inc.
DVD Reviews of Connections 1
DVD Review: Exactly as hoped and expected
Summary: 5 Stars
I remembered this series as a kid and wanted to share it with my kids. I love how it makes you think about everything around you and wonder about the connections...DVD Review: Connections 1
Summary: 5 Stars
Classic information/entertainment. Should be required viewing for every high school student in their history classes. Burke combines the information with a flair for the dramatic, making his presentation most interesting.DVD Review: fantastic and thought provoking
Summary: 5 Stars
This program is fantastic and thought provoking. James Burke is simultaneously intelligent, engaging, and witty. His knowledge and charisma make for wonderful show.
I highly recommend this and I am saving up to buy it.
DVD Review: Good program--problem product
Summary: 1 Stars
I loved this program as a kid in the 70's and have been looking forward to seeing it again. Unfortunately, Amazon is now 0/2 with this product: both orders I've received have had discs 1, 3, and 5 encoded for other regions and therefore unplayable on US DVD players.DVD Review: Just As Good As I Remember
Summary: 5 Stars
Years ago, this series was shown on one of the "Discovery/History" channels. I found it enthralling then, and in spite of thirty-year time gap since it was produced in 1978, "Connections" is every bit as absorbing and thought-provoking as when I first viewed it. The ideas and problems it presents are timeless, and technology has grown even more pervasive and complicated.
James Burke raises a number of questions in the various episodes, such as, "What would happen if, for some reason, the 'technology island' in which we now exist were to be disrupted or shut down?" He also brings up the point that, if we (meaning most of us) do not comprehend the nature and workings of the complex, technological devices upon which we depend, we will not be able to make sensible judgements concerning their use and control. How and when should we use them? Should their use be limited or regulated in any way? If so, how?
Burke does not offer many answers here; he merely shows what the track record of discovery and invention has been so far. He jumps about in history, pointing out the connections (sometimes obvious, sometimes subtle) between many of the important discoveries and ideas that have shaped our world. Even after several viewings, one can still gain new perspectives on history, culture, technology and the fascinating manner in which they interact.
The series is a long one. There are five DVD's, each containing two episodes of roughly fifty minutes each. However, the material is so engrossing that the time passes swiftly. At the end, I remember feeling slightly dizzy, thinking, "What a ride!"
Description of Connections 1
This ten volume series was made in 1978 by turning science into a detective story, James Burke creates a series that will fascinate students and adults alike. This interdisciplinary approach has never before been applied to history or science and it succeeds tremendously. Winner of the Red Ribbon in the American Film Festival, the scope of the series covers 19 countries and 150 locations, requiring over 14 months of filming.As the Sherlock Holmes of science, Burke tracks through 12,000 years of history for the clues that lead us to eight great life changing inventions-the atom bomb, telecommunications, the computer, the production line, jet aircraft, plastics, rocketry and television. Burke postulates that such changes occur in response to factors he calls triggers, some of them seemingly unrelated. These have their own triggering effects, causing change in totally unrelated fields as well. And so the connections begin...
Programs in the series:
The Trigger Effect
Death in the Morning
Distant Voices
Faith in Numbers
The Wheel of Fortune
Thunder in the Skies
The Long Chain
Eat, Drink and Be Merry
Countdown
Yesterday, Tomorrow and You
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