Ambrose Video Publishing.
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"Life is no picnic: Examine the interwoven histories of freeze dried coffee and soldier ration packs in WWII; the Star Spangled Banner and a Greek poem; and Europe's Romantic movement and Darwin's theory of evolution."--Container.
"Elementary stuff: Explore histories [sic] intricate web of commonalities: spiritualism and the device that makes radio reception possible; Scottish oppression and the creation of turpentine; and the debate over modern...
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"Feedback: Electronic agents may be our servants using feedback mathematics that won World War II based on an idea from France's vineyards where the Humane Society began while a doctor in Michigan created cornflakes."--Container.
"What's in a name?: A breakfast leads to corn cob garbage used for 'furfan' which creates resin for bonding that leads to inventing the tractor and diesal engine and to the creation of the Smithsonian in Washington, DC."--Container....
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"Drop the apple: The benefactor of the Smithsonian discovered the mineral calamine that gives off electricity used to play records leading to Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and the creation of the atomic bomb."--Container.
"An invisible object: Connect black holes with fast food by travelling along the Pony Express, looking into a Sultan's finances, and discovering why beer is chilled. Along the way, go to a queen's party, see Buffalo Bill's...
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2002, c1992]
Language
English
Description
This six part series on three videodiscs explores the influence on ancient culture on our lives today. Host, Michael Wood visits the ancient cities and great ports of India and China, the deserts of Egypt and Iraq, the Mexico of the Inca, Aztec and Mayan peoples, the Greek and Roman monuments of Europe and the jungles of Central America searching for the living legacies of these once great civilizations. The series traces how the institutions that...
27) Miracle planet
Publisher
Distributed by Ambrose Video Publishing
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"Miracle planet is a five-part series that recounts the profound and gripping story of Earth's mysterious evolution. Narrated by Christopher Plummer, it reveals the surprising role that sheer chance has played in the development of life. Over its more than 4-billion-year history, Earth has been home to repeated violent climactic changes, which have caused mass extinctions. And yet, life has survived. In fact, these same catastrophes that devastated...
30) Titus Andronicus
Series
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2000 or 2001]
Language
English
Description
Set in late Roman times, this tragedy draws on mythology for brutal tales, such as a banquet where a mother is served the flesh of her sons. Titus Andronicus is created as a commanding figure of bravery with a flawed sense of honor, a concern for the reputation of mobility than for its substance.
Publisher
Thirteen/WNET New York
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Explores the issues before the court from the aftermath of the Civil War through the 1930s. This was a period of unprecedented economic growth as the nation industrialized, but was also a time of unregulated work conditions - the court found itself squarely in the middle of what was almost class warfare.
Publisher
Thirteen/WNET New York
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Details the court from the election of President Richard Nixon - who appointed 4 new justices in less than two years - through to the more recent Court of today. During this period one man put his stamp on the institution and solidified and enhanced the power of the Court in the modern area - William H. Rehnquist.
35) Julius Caesar
Series
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Language
English
Description
"Breaking all conventional rules of drama, Shakespear creates neither a clear-cut hero nor a villain. Instead, this great tragedy presents complicated human beings in agonizing conflict with one another, and themselves."--Container.
36) Romeo & Juliet
Series
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2000 or 2001]
Language
English
Description
Shakespeare's tragedy about two teenagers who fall in love, encounter opposition from their feuding families, and take their own lives.
38) Othello
Series
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Othello appoints Cassio as his chief lieutenant, arousing the jealousy of Iago, who conspires to undo them both. Iago tells Othello that his wife, the beautiful Desdemona, is having an affair with Cassio.
Series
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[1980]
Language
English
Description
A Danish prince avenges the murder of his father, the king, by killing his uncle Claudius who murdered the king, usurped the throne, and married Hamlet's mother, Gertrude. Hamlet, considered the most complex of all Shakespeare's characters, examines the fundamental issues of justice, guilt, and death.