Connections 2.
Subtitle: Disc 1
By: written & presented by James Burke ; director, Mike Slee ; producer, Richard Sattin ; a presentation of Discovery Productions in association with James Burke and the Principal Film Company, UK
Contributors: Discovery Productions, Inc; Principal Film Company; Ambrose Video Publishing
Publisher: Ambrose Video
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 92
Subjects: Inventions; History; Technology and civilization
Other titles: Revolutions.; Sentimental journeys.; Getting it together.; Whodunit?
Description: Tracks the links between technological invention, social history, economics, and everything. Revolutions: Explains how the steam engine led to safety matches, imitation diamonds and the moon in a wild ride. Sentimental journeys: Asks what Freud has got to do with maps, prison reform with blue dye, the inside of a star with the Himalayas, and India reveals the answers. Getting it together: Begins by examining a SWAT team, which leads to hot air ballooning, the root of many inventions. Whodunit?: Questions who stole a set of billiard balls in 1902 and why was he the most famous crook in history?  The clues: maps from 1775, Charles Darwin's cousin and the FBI.
Notes: Program content c1994.

DVD.

Optional English subtitles.
Table of contents: title: Revolutions; title: Sentimental journeys; title: Getting it together; title: Whodunit?