Stars: Bruce Boa, Kenneth Kendall, Mark Wing-Davey, James Burke, Ted Burnett
The documentary series "Connections" was first made in 1978 and later had two sequels in 1994 and 1997. In this series, James Burke narrates the history of science in the form of a fascinating detective story. During 12,000 years of history, he examines the formation of important inventions such as computers, televisions, airplanes, and the atomic bomb. The main idea of the collection is that changes and inventions are formed by a chain of apparently unrelated factors...
Stars: James Burke
Historian James Burke continues his journey through the accidental historical connections that together shape our world and provide important clues to the future...
Stars: Ward Bond, Ernie Adams, Bess Flowers, James Burke, Clark Gable
A pampered girl and heir to millions of money escapes from her family with the help of a male reporter, who is actually just looking for a hot story...
Stars: Ward Bond, Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre
The story is about a detective who, following a crime, ends up in the case of three others, along with a charming liar and his plan to steal a precious statue.
Stars: Kay Deslys, James Stewart, Lionel Barrymore, Ward Bond, H.B. Warner
A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a well-mannered woman, but from a completely unusual family...
Stars: Harry Cheshire, Edward Clark, Cyril Ring, Chet Brandenburg, James Burke
Ambitious Stan Carlisle works as an assistant to a psychoanalyst named Zeena Crumbin, who is married to an alcoholic Pete. The couple has devised a special method to claim they can read other people's minds. Their program was successful until Pete turned to alcohol. Stan plans to learn their method and leave the carnival as a successful psychoanalyst, but...
Stars: Frank Hagney, Brooks Benedict, Lane Chandler, Bess Flowers, James Burke
One of the biggest publishers, Earl Jonat, commits a murder and in order to clear his tracks, he makes an innocent man guilty. That man is George Stroud, one of his employees, who must try to prove his innocence...
Stars: Heinie Conklin, Sarah Edwards, Ernie Adams, Dell Henderson, James Burke
Lord Branstead loses his English butler Ruggles. His new owners, Egbert and Effie Flood, take him to a remote town in Washington. But when people mistake him for a rich Englishman, he gets a name for himself and...
Stars: Cyril Ring, James Burke, Mike Lally, George Magrill, William H. O'Brien
"Charlie Davis" wins an amateur boxing match and is noticed by "Queen". His mother does not want "Charlie" to fight, but when his father is killed, she organizes a fight to get money and...
Stars: Fred Graham, James Burke, Herbert Evans, Stuart Hall, Shep Houghton
During World War I, 1915, France. Major Brand is in command of the 39th Royal Flight Battalion. His battalion suffers a lot of injuries, but he is still determined to go forward, but soon he has to face the harsh realities of war...
Stars: Ann Gillis, Stanley Andrews, Joseph E. Bernard, Ronald R. Rondell, Donald O'Connor
Three adopted English brothers join the French Foreign Legion in North Africa after one of them steals the family sapphire...
Stars: James Burke, Georges Renavent, Sam Harris, Tiny Sandford, Paul Hurst
"Queen Christina", the beloved king of Sweden, is loyal to her country. But when she falls in love with the Spanish envoy, she is faced with a choice between the throne and the man she loves...
Stars: James Burke, George Davis, Davison Clark, Eric Alden, Jane Darwell
The young German princess Sophia is taken to Russia to marry the queen's ignorant son, Duke Peter the Great. The domineering queen hopes to improve the royal bloodline. Sophia does not love her husband, but she is very fond of Russia and...
Stars: Gerry Griffin, Eugene Cernan, Charles Duke, Christopher Kraft, Gene Kranz
This documentary is about a special group in the Apollo space program, with their help they were able to land the first man on the surface of the moon...
Stars: Walt Disney, John Chancellor, Jim Hartz, David Brinkley, Wernher von Braun
The Apollo space program: 12 manned missions, an impossible goal. With rare archival images and sounds, this documentary sheds new light on an incredible time in human history.
Stars: Nancy Grace, Joshua Zeman, J. Buzz Von Ornsteiner, Rachel Mills, Peter Brendt
Documentary filmmakers Joshua Zaman and Rachel Mills investigate one of the strangest unsolved cases of our time. Ten workers found on Gilgo Beach, Long Island. Authorities believe the murders are the work of the Long Island Serial Killer. The one who is still hiding after 5 years...
Stars: Robert Vaughn, Adam West, Paul Newman, Bess Flowers, Chet Brandenburg
Anthony Lawrence, a young lawyer, faces moral and emotional obstacles on his way to reach the upper social class of Philadelphia. His professional and personal skills are tested several times in the way of balancing the demands of the young candidate, the expectations of his colleagues, and his own commitments...
Stars: Ward Bond, Al Bridge, Elisabeth Risdon, Humphrey Bogart, James Burke
Dead end boys introduce themselves in a poor neighborhood surrounded by rich people's apartments. Dave is an architect who is caught between Drina, a beautiful but poor woman and Kai, the lover of a rich man. Martin is a criminal who returns to his old neighborhood and realizes that no one is happy to see him and...
Stars: Charles Lane, James Burke, Howard Hickman, Eddy Chandler, Edgar Kennedy
Experienced Broadway director Oscar Jaffe, who is going through a difficult time in his career, tries to convince his ex-lover, who is now very successful in Hollywood, to save his career from destruction...
Stars: Beulah Bondi, Karolyn Grimes, Mary Bayless, Joseph E. Bernard, Ellen Corby
An Australian nurse discovers a new and effective treatment for polio, but has a hard time convincing doctors of the truth of her claims.
