Ambrose Video (Firm)
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1977.
Language
English
Description
The Zulu Independent Churches in South Africa. When Christian missionaries took the Gospel to Africa they also tried to suppress African religion and subvert African culture with their own. But since World War I, and with increasing vigor in the last 20 years, Africans have been rediscovering their lost religious identity and have been forming independent churches with their own festivals, prophets and rituals and greater or lesser devotion to Christ....
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
This episode begins with plastic and plastic credit cards and traces backwards to the dukes of Burgundy, the first to develop and utilize the concept of credit. One of the many things credit was used for at this time was the purchase of better armor for the army. Burke explains how this eventually leads to the growth in the size of armies, which in turn presented a problem in the form of feeding increasingly large quantities of soldiers. This led...
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
Here, Burke offers an examination of the cultural innovations produced between the middle ages and the Renaissance, paying particular attention to how commercialism, climate change, and the Black Death influenced these cultural changes.
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Description
This production is part of a famous series produced by BBC of all of William Shakespeare's plays. The resulting films, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilized the best theatrical and television directors and brought highly praised performances from leading contemporary actors.. Breaking all conventional rules of drama, Shakespeare creates neither a clear-cut hero nor a Villain. Instead, this great tragedy presents complicated human beings...
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1973.
Language
English
Description
Episode two examines the long spring following the Ice Ages. In this time, man develops agriculture and domesticates animals, imposing his will on wild wheat and horses. With the Neolithic cultivators come the mounted Nomads, the predators, and the roots of human warfare.
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
This production is part of a famous series produced by BBC of all of William Shakespeare's plays. The resulting films, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilized the best theatrical and television directors and brought highly praised performances from leading contemporary actors.. With practical jokes, poetry and haunting songs, this is the most subtle of Shakespeare's comedies. In an aristocratic country house, we see the infatuation of Orsino,...
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In the 21st Century, Hollywood has retained the glitz and glamor of its past as well as its great studios. But the genius of American cinema is that it has evolved with the times. Directors have become the creative force behind films, while movies themselves, from documentaries and animation to blockbusters and insightful Indies have taken on the mantle of great literature.. THE GREAT DIRECTORS: THE MAKING OF 21st CENTURY HOLLYWOOD traces the evolution...
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
Burke traces the invention of the fluyt freighter in Holland in the 16th Century, which - via the development of tar designed for ship hulls - eventually leads to the discovery of ammonia. The search for artificial quinine to treat malaria led to the invention of artificial dyes, which Germany used to produce fertilizers which ultimately led to the discovery of polymers like Nylon by DuPont.
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
Beginning with the Astrological knowlege of the ancient Greeks, this episode traces the development of alarm clocks, paying particular attention to the clock mainspring that gave rise to pendulum clocks, and eventually, more precise measurements of time. Ultimately, this led to the precise production line system developed by Frank and Lillian Moller Gilbreth.
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
To kick off this fascinating educational series, James Burke details the world's dependence on networks through a narritivization of the power blackout of 1965 in New York City. Then, from the first introduction of the plough in Ancient Egypt to the prevalence of oil in Kuwait, this episode shows how human society grew from tranditional patterns to advanced technologies.
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Hollywood has always attracted foreign directors with superb cinematic dreams, including visionaries such as Otto Preminger, Billy Wilder, Alfred Hitchcock and Ang Lee. This film describes the impact of immigrant filmmakers not only on American cinema, but on the story of America, showing Americans who they are from the outsider’s perspective.
13) Macbeth
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
English
Description
This production is part of a famous series produced by BBC of all of William Shakespeare's plays. The resulting films, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilized the best theatrical and television directors and brought highly praised performances from leading contemporary actors.. This savage tragedy is one of Shakespeare's most enduringly popular. Told by a trio of witches that he is fated to become King of Scotland, the warrior Macbeth, aided...
14) Distant Voices
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
Burke introduces the idea that telecommunications came to be thanks to the stirrups Normans used in warfare, which lead to further developments in warfare, and ultimately, innovations in communications.
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1977.
Language
English
Description
There are almost 200 million people scattered across the world who belong to tribal religions that are local, exclusive and frequently animist - i.e., they believe that inanimate objects and natural phenomena possess a soul. Though no single group can be chosen as typical, this episode is devoted to primal religion-that of the Torajas who live in a mountain fortress on an Indonesian island.
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The "War on Drugs" is almost 50 years old, with trillions of dollars spent and countless lives lost and ruined. In the 21st century, neuroscience is finally providing real tools needed to fight addiction.. This incredible, comprehensive series explains and identifies the brain's various roles in addiction, how drugs of abuse hijack the brain making us more susceptible to addictive behavior, how addictive behavior affects our brains, our lives and...
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1973.
Language
English
Description
In this episode, Dr. Bronowski's shares his statement on information and the responsibility and moral dilemma presented to scientists. The principle of certainty in physics applies to all knowledge, and as such Bronowski examines the implications of bombing Japan among other dilemmas. Finally, he contrasts the humanist tradition of Gottingen University with the inhumanities of Auschwitz.
20) Henry V
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Description
This production is part of a famous series produced by BBC of all of William Shakespeare's plays. The resulting films, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilized the best theatrical and television directors and brought highly praised performances from leading contemporary actors.. In the third play portraying England's most admired national hero, Henry V unites his people, invades France, deals with traitors and cements the peace by marrying...