Breakthrough
2015
DVD
Examines cutting edge developments in science, technology, and medicine, covering a variety of topics that include: new findings in pandemic research; cyborg technologies; new developments in understanding the brain; the latest advances in extending human life; innovations in energy resources; developments under way to countervail potential water shortages.
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9781426381461
- 1426381468
Description:
- 2 videodiscs (270 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
- digital optical surround Dolby Digital 5.1
- NTSC
- video file DVD video Region 1
Target Audience Note: TV Parental Guidelines rating: TV-14 (parents strongly cautioned; this program contains some material that many parents would find unsuitable for children under 14 years of age).
Other Title: Breakthrough (Television program)
Notes:
- Documentary.
- Title from container.
- Originally produced as episodes of the television series: Breakthrough.
- Program content: ©2015.
- DVD; NTSC; widescreen presentation.
- In English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
Contents:
- episode 1. Fighting pandemics / directed & narrated by Peter Berg
- episode 2. More than human / directed & written by Paul Giamatti
- episode 3. Decoding the brain / directed by Brett Ratner ; narrated by Adrien Brody
- episode 4. The age of aging / directed & narrated by Ron Howard
- episode 5. Energy on the edge / directed by Akiva Goldsman ; narrated by Jason Bateman
- episode 6. Water apocalypse / directed & narrated by Angela Bassett.
Publisher or Distributor Number:
- CS93332
- 11516600
Control Number: 1600711
UPC:
- 727994933328
- 727994933328
Subjects:
- Aging -- Prevention -- Research.
- Brain -- Research.
- Cyborgs.
- Discoveries in science.
- Epidemics.
- Longevity -- Research.
- Power resources -- Technological innovations.
- Technological innovations.
- Water resources development.
- Water-supply.
Genre:
- Documentary television programs.
- Nonfiction television programs.
- Science television programs.
- Video recordings.
Other Authors:
- Asylum Entertainment (Firm), production company.
- Bassett, Angela, narrator, television director.
- Bateman, Jason, narrator.
- Berg, Peter, 1964- narrator, television director.
- Brody, Adrien, narrator.
- General Electric Company, production company.
- Giamatti, Paul, narrator, television director.
- Goldsman, Akiva, television director.
- Howard, Ron, 1954- narrator, television director.
- National Geographic Channel (Television station : Washington, D.C.), production company.
- National Geographic Channels International, production company.
- National Geographic Society (U.S.), publisher.
- Ratner, Brett, television director.