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Starring: James Burke
Type: DVD
Directed By: Mick Jackson
Studio: Ambrose Video Publishing, Inc.
Release Date: 2007-03-01
Running Time: 500 minutes
Number of Items: 5
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.

Connections 1
The DVDs arrived quickly and in new condition, I am very satisfied with the product and the seller.

Connections

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.

Always fantastic
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!"

All People, Large and Small, Genius and Fool
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.

6 Stars for the Conncetions Series and Book...5 stars just isn't enough!!
I saw James Burke's Connections Series when it came out years ago and it made a tremendous impact on me. I then read the book cover to cover!

It was a joy to watch Burke carefully take us (the viewers) with him on an amazing journey. He showed time and again how people throughout history used their critical thinking skills to create amazing human creations from seemingly unrelated discoveries and decisions that were made before them.

Burke showed that whatever we create today, we can't possibly imagine what type of morphing it will go through time and what incredible thing it may become tomorrow.

Connections (the series and book) also allow us to peek into the mind of the inventor. For example in his book Connections, Burke writes about Thomas Edison: "When Edison died he had over a thousand patents filed in his name, thanks to the work of the men in his laboratory. Each man was a specialist in his field, serving the needs of Edison's fertile imagination as well as his acute understanding of the seller's market in which he lived. Edison never developed an idea unless he knew in advance that it would be profitable."

Years after reading the book and watching the series I went to a James Burke lecture. He is as personable, passionate, interesting, animated and fun in person as he is on the series! At one point during the lecture I asked a question and he answered it and joked with me. When he signed my book later he asked if I was okay with his ribbing. I said I was pleased that he had such a great sense of humor and allowed me to be part of it!

The underlying theme in connections is how we as humans are connected to our species though our works and discoveries. We are in this thing called life together!.

6 Stars for this Series and Book...5 stars just isn't enough!

The Re-Discovery of Common Sense: A Guide to: The Lost Art of Critical Thinking