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: Wonderful series
Summary: 5 Stars
I was hooked as soon as I saw one episode years ago. Had to have the whole collectionDVD Review: Connections 1
Summary: 5 Stars
The DVDs arrived quickly and in new condition, I am very satisfied with the product and the seller.DVD Review: Connections
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an excellant series. The DVD is clear and sharp in both audio and video aspects. The material is presented intellectually with humor by James Burke. The film production is spectacular.
DVD Review: Always fantastic
Summary: 5 Stars
Don't miss this series! Absolutely fabulous overview of world history, mechanics, medicine, technology, everything. He explains how we got to where we are (or rather, were; the series is over 10 years old and lots has changed even since then). So interesting, so much to learn, so much "I didn't know that!" and "Wow, what a great.... CONNECTION!"DVD Review: All People, Large and Small, Genius and Fool
Summary: 5 Stars
Apart from a few gifted teachers, the problem with teaching history - and learning it - is that they're doing it wrong. Human events are not linear; they are not Henry Ford's definition of history: one damned thing after another. Nor are the most significant developments in history the product of men and women with singular genius. Rather, they are often enabled by outright fools. This is why Connections is important. This is why it's so captivating. I'd say that only a polymath like Burke could have done it, but no doubt he'd point to a series of failed or silly authors and professors who planted the notion in his fertile and restless brain, or the chance meeting that made him decide that he really didn't want to become an oboe player.
Would all the significant achievements he notes have come to pass anyway by other means? Of course. Are his causal linkages always sound? Of course not. That's not the point. What Burke delivers is a view of human events that will leave you unable to see history as a tedious, linear march through time ever again. Therein lay its enduring brilliance.
Description of Connections 1
The original and still most requested science series in our collection. Produced in 1978, the series has been digitally re-mastered onto DVD to upgrade the viewing experience. James Burke begins his tracking of 12,000 years of science history in this ten part series. 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 the clues that lead us to eight great life changing inventions. Burke postulates that such changes occur in response to factor he calls "trigger," some of them seemingly unrelated.General DVDs
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