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Audience Rating: G (General Audience)Binding: DVD EAN: 0739815003332 Format: NTSC Label: Ambrose Video Publishing, Inc. Languages: Manufacturer: Ambrose Video Publishing, Inc. MPN: 333 Number Of Items: 5 Publisher: Ambrose Video Publishing, Inc. Region Code: 1 Release Date: March 01, 2007 Running Time: 676 minutes Studio: Ambrose Video Publishing, Inc. Editorial Review: Product Description: An American Film Festival Award winner, this 13 volume series on 5 DVD's attempts a massive survey of science, from flint tools to the theory of relativity. The series, a co-production of the BBC and Time-Life Films was made as a science counterpart to Civilization. It is a given superb technical support, with two crews using innovative filming techniques, shooting in 27 countries. Dr. Jacob Bronowski makes for an unorthodox narrator, his non-scripted delivery ranging from hushed awe to trembling passion. He uses the crawling infant, the performing athlete, the development of the hunt and the discovery of fire to illustrate the most distinctive feature of man: imagination. His Scientific-Humanism is often spectacular, always provocative. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - As relevant today as it was when it was filmedJacob Bronowski, unusually for an academic, performs admirably as a television presenter. He is charming, persuasive, and intimate as he conveys the gradual forward-march of scientific understanding from pre-history through to his own period at the end of the sixth decade of the twentieth century. He handles complex subjects and trains of events by reducing them to their essentials without undue simplification, and he shows how social factors have so often influenced the development (or conversely ... Read More Rating: - Really good fun !!I was hooked as soon as I saw one episode. Had to have the whole collection Rating: - The Ascent Of Man is excellent!Just an incredible series! Got to love the music that opens every episode. I liked the way Bronowski meters his speech. Five stars. Rating:  - Necessary viewingAs someone who watched it when it was first broadcast, and again recently, I still find it an enthralling documentary. It's a pity other reviewers have concentrated on the lack of both gee-whizz computer graphics and sound-effects, but they should realise that it was made in a not-so-distant time when people didn't collectively suffer from ADD, and had the ability to concentrate and think. Dr Bronowski's commentary is fascinating and riveting, and that's what it is about. TAOM is a brilliant educational ... Read More Rating: - Brilliant !!!I viewed this brilliant series as a set of 4 DVD's and was stunned by the brilliance of Dr. Jacob Bronowski as a teacher. He deals with every subject imaginable, including scientific work which ordinarily, I would not have attempted to follow, but he makes it all so easy that you begin to feel quite clever and to wish that you'd had him as a tutor. The series was 3 years in the making with location filming in over 20 countries and I would energetically recommend it to anyone to broaden their knowledge and ... Read More |
