From the BBC a program about the atom... fundamental to studies in chemistry, physics and general science.

The exciting saga of America's Railroads and how they empowered America to become the greatest industrial nation on the planet.

Actress Mare Winningham narrates this chronicle of extraordinary Jewish American achievement. A unique history of greatness, service to country, humanitarianism, and love of education.

Presented by Diarmaid MacCulloch, The BBC series, A History Of Christianity will reveal the true origins of Christianity. Intelligent, thought-provoking and magisterial in its scope the series will reveal how a small Jewish sect that preached humility became the biggest religion in the world.

James Burke looks at times when new knowledge or discoveries has altered that thinking and explores the cultural changes those discoveries effected.

As the Sherlock Holmes of science, Burke tracks through 12,000 years of history for the clues that lead us to eight great life changing inventions-the atom bomb, telecommunications, the computer, the production line, jet aircraft, plastics, rocketry and television.

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An American Film Festival Award winner, this 13 volume series attempts a massive survey of science, from flint tools to the theory of relativity.