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Connections

Created by James Burke

1978–1997

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.

First aired
17 Oct 1978
Episode length
22 min
Also known as
James Burke's Connections
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
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Seasons · 40 episodes

  • Connections

    Season 1 · 1978

    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.

  • Connections²

    Season 2 · 1994

    Sequel series to the 1979 "Connections" where historian James Burke walks the viewer through the tenuous threads of history that link seemingly obscure scientific breakthroughs and the events and products that we have today.

  • Connections³

    Season 3 · 1997

    In the conclusion to his groundbreaking series, James Burke continues to make incredible connections to history's most important discoveries and inventions.

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