Connections
1978, Series, 50 min, Documentary, History, English, United Kingdom, MoviePedia score 73
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.
Directed by Mick Jackson
Cast
- James Burke as Self - Presenter
- Kenneth Kendall as Newsreader
- Bruce Boa as Newsreader
- Mark Wing-Davey as Henry V
- Ted Burnett as Man Carrying Barrel
- Keith Macey as Saxon Child
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