Connections: With James Burke, Kenneth Kendall, Bruce Boa, Mark Wing-Davey. Follow James Burke through the history of science and technology in this collection of 10 1-hour episodes, starting with …

Historian James Burke continues his journey through random historical connections that together have shaped our world and provide important clues to our future.

James Burke was born on 22 December 1936 in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, UK. He is a writer and producer, known for The Trigger Effect (1996), Connections 2 (1994) and The Day the Universe …

Connections 3: With James Burke, John Carrigan. In the conclusion to his groundbreaking series, James Burke continues to make incredible connections to history's most important discoveries and …

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 …

For all of us fans of high quality, educational TV, the late 70s brought us 2 of the absolute best documentary series of all times: Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" and James Burke's "Connections".

James Burke discusses the use of hydrogen and oxygen as rocket fuel, saying, "If you release those two gases into a confined space, with a hole at the other end of it, and mix them as you do so, and then …

James connects the dots between Napoleon's toothpick and the Nielsen TV ratings to see how scientists have built the quantum computer - a data-processing machine so powerful that it can predict the future.

Distant Voices: With James Burke, Mark Wing-Davey. follow the connections from the battle of Hastings in 1066, through the use of gunpowder, the invention of cannon, water pumps, barometers, the …

The End of Scarcity: Directed by Anthony Willis. James jumps in the sensory deprivation tank with a man who took LSD with dolphins to discover how syphilis in the French aristocracy kicked off a …