Connections
Connections - Documentary TV Shows 50:60. story about Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the history of science and invention, Connections explores an "Alternative View of Change" that rejects the conventional linear and teleological view of historical progress. To demonstrate this view, Burke begins each episode with a particular event or innovation in the past (usually ancient or medieval) and traces a path from that event through a series of connections to a fundamental and essential aspect of the modern world.
- 1. The Trigger Effect1978-10-17
- 2. Death In The Morning1978-10-24
- 3. Distant Voices1978-10-31
- 4. Faith In Numbers1978-11-07
- 5. The Wheel of Fortune1978-11-14
- 6. Thunder In The Skies1978-11-21
- 7. The Long Chain1978-11-28
- 8. Eat, Drink, and Be Merry1978-12-05
- 9. Countdown1978-12-12
- 10. Yesterday, Tomorrow, and You1978-12-19