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A Science Odyssey - The Journey of a Century (5-Pack)

starring: Edwin Hubble; George Ellery Hale; Frederick Banting; Charles Osgood; J.B. Collip; Charles Best; Alexander Fleming; Henry Ford; Sigmund Freud
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: A Science Odyssey - The Journey of a Century (5-Pack)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0783421385498
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: WGBH BOSTON
Manufacturer: WGBH BOSTON
Number Of Items: 5
Publisher: WGBH BOSTON
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 06, 2005
Running Time: 560 minutes
Sales Rank: 88248
Studio: WGBH BOSTON
Theatrical Release Date: January 11, 1998



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Penicillin. The airplane. Pulsars. Organ transplants. The atomic bomb. Psychoanalysis. The Model T. DNA. Volcanoes. The computer. Apollo 8. Travel to the dramatic frontier of scientific discovery and exploration as the most astonishing 100 years of science and technology dramatically unfold with the premiere of A Science Odyssey - the journey of a century. Hosted by award-winning journalist Charles Osgood, this five-part, ten-hour series explores the sweeping changes that have revolutionized life and thinking in the twentieth century.

Each two-hour episode moves chronologically through the century, blending exciting historic adventures - full of twists and turns, suspense and surprise - with the political, economic, and cultural changes that have caused or come about because of scientific discovery. Through illuminating first-hand interviews, rare historical footage, and state-of-the-art computer animations, A Science Odyssey offers a rich behind-the-science chronicle of the century's most revolutionary scientific and technological discoveries.



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Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Worth buying.
This is an older series. If you are a little science minded/interested then i do recommend this. It ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A jaw-dropping chronicle of advancements, theories, and what they tell us about ourselves and the universe we live in
A Science Odyssey is a five-DVD, ten-hour series that explores the wonders of scientific discovery throughout ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Highly entertaining, intelligent documetaries on science
We all hated science in school, right? Science was boring. Science was for nerds. Science was dry and dusty ... Read More


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