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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Breakthrough : the ideas that changed the world / a production of Bigger Bang for PBS ; drama director, Ben Harding ; director, Chris Riley, Stephen Mizelas, Nathan Williams, Nat Sharman and Sean Smith ; series producer, Tim Green.

Edition:

Widescreen.

Publisher, Date:

[Arlington, Virginia] : PBS, [2019]

[Arlington, Virginia] : Distributed by PBS Distribution, [2019]

Description:

2 videodiscs (approximately 5 hr., 30 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

video file

DVD video

region 1

Summary:

Take a mind-blowing journey through human history, told through six iconic objects: the car, the airplane, the smartphone, the rocket, the robot, and the telescope.

Subjects:

Inventions -- History.

Technological innovations -- History.

Telescopes -- History.

Airplanes -- History.

Robots -- History.

Rockets (Aeronautics) -- History.

Smartphones -- History.

Genre:

Documentary television programs.

Science television programs.

Historical television programs.

Nonfiction television programs.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Harding, Ben (Documentary filmmaker), television director.

Riley, Chris (Director), television director.

Mizelas, Stephen, television director.

Williams, Nathan (Documentary filmmaker), television director.

Sharman, Nat, television director.

Smith, Sean, 1961 March 18- television director.

Green, Tim (Television producer and director), television producer.

Stewart, Patrick, 1940- narrator.

Bigger Bang Productions, production company.

Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), production company, publisher.

Other Title:

Ideas that changed the world

Notes:

Widescreen.

Documentary.

Narrator, Patrick Stewart.

Originally broadcast by PBS Apr. 17-May 22, 2019.

DVD; NTSC, Region 1; widescreen presentation; stereo.

In English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).

Contents:

The telescope -- The airplane -- The robot -- The car -- The rocket -- The smartphone.

ISBN:

9781531710194

1531710190

9781531710194 : DVD

1531710190 : DVD

Publisher Number:

REVO600

REVO600.1

REVO600.2

Other Number:

1101122718

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

800659

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 600 Breakthr