Ambrose Video (Firm)
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Presenting a comprehensive guide to perspective physical therapy students, this program is designed to enable teachers and career guidance counselors a means to present a guide to choosing the physical therapy profession.. Physical Therapy or PT has been a part of the American patient care experience for over a hundred years. PT has grown exponentially until in the 21st century it is an essential part of every patient’s medical team.. CAREER DECISIONS:...
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In the 1970s Hollywood escaped slow financial ruin with the introduction of the summer Blockbuster. This film shows how this idea not only redefined Hollywood, it established one of the cinema’s greatest financial marvels – the franchise.
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Using interviews with working nurses, doctors, hospital administrators and nursing school teachers from the prestigious University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Denver, CAREER DECISIONS: NURSING provides an invaluable guide to prospective nursing students.. This video covers how the modern nurse has become an integral part of the healthcare team, looks at what doctors and hospital administrators look for in their nursing candidates, reviews...
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Program two focuses on the most fundamental aspect of the human cultural landscape: the distribution and concentration of people across the planet. At the same time it examines how population distribution has changed over time, and why.
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Recent discoveries by neuroscientists have changed the conversation around addiction, providing answers and raising new questions that point to new directions in understanding the brain and its relationship with drugs of abuse. Program 5: Directions for the Future, examines how the treatment of drug addiction as a brain disease is in its earliest stages.
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1973.
Language
English
Description
From ancient Oriental metallurgy, through mystical alchemy this episode traces the roots of chemistry. Shang bronze craftsmen and Samurai sword smiths are the starting point for a journey leading from medieval Europe to Dalton's atomic theory and our modern knowledge of the elements.
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
As the human population has grown to over 7 billion people, nothing has had to change more than the geography of agriculture. Program five studies the primary relationship between people and the cultivation of land and how agriculture has developed to sustain Earth’s ever-growing population.
9) Countdown
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
Burke explains how the invention of the movie projector led to improvements in castle fortifications caused by the invention and use of the canon. He connects the invention of the movie projector to four major innovations in history: incandescent light, the discovery of celluloid, the projector that uses frame-by-frame pictures on celluloid, and finally, recorded sound.
11) The Human Brain
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The Human Brain, lays out the neural-biochemical nature of the brain and examines the relationship of the brain to drugs of abuse.
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1977.
Language
English
Description
In this episode Ronald Eyre asks himself some questions. It is not a film in which he hands out diplomas to believers of the religion that pleased him best. The search, for him, began long before this series got off the ground and will continue long into the future. There are no winners and no losers. There is an element of personal stocktaking, however, and before doing so, Eyre reveals his own background, the mental furniture that he of necessity...
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1977.
Language
English
Description
In our search for Chinese religious experience, we go to Taiwan. A whole pantheon of gods both local and imported from the mainland are worshipped in thousands of Buddhist and Taoist temples. Several strands make up the religious life of the village: a Confucian respect for past and the ancestors, the cosmic pattern of the Tao that permeates all levels of existence and manifests itself through oracles, the local gods who dispense justice and favors,...
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1977.
Language
English
Description
The Orthodox churches in Eastern Europe seem to be bound to the Communist states in essentially loveless marriages, except in Rumania. The Rumanian Orthodox Church is still seen as an important aspect of Rumania's cultural heritage and ethnic identity. The Orthodox liturgy is one of the oldest and longest in Christendom, and the spirituality of the services intensified by the Byzantine splendor of the setting and the beauty of some of the most inspiring...
16) Richard III
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
English
Description
This production is part of a famous series produced by BBC of all of William Shakespeare's plays. The resulting films, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilized the best theatrical and television directors and brought highly praised performances from leading contemporary actors. A huge success in its day, this historical play centers around the character of Richard of Gloucester, a self-proclaimed villain who usurps the crown. Through political...
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Description
This production is part of a famous series produced by BBC of all of William Shakespeare's plays. The resulting films, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilized the best theatrical and television directors and brought highly praised performances from leading contemporary actors. Shakespeare uses one of this favorite devices -- trickery -- in a plot relished by Elizabethan playgoers. The new wife of a young count resorts to chicanery to win...
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
This episode begins by examining the standardization of precious metal in the ancient world. From here, Burke traces the many connections between Ptolemy's Star Tables and the magnetic compass, and the magnetic compass to the discovery of electricity, finally ending on the invention of nuclear weaponry.
20) Long Childhood
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1973.
Language
English
Description
In this final episode, Dr. Bronowski - poet, playwright, mathematician, philosopher - draws together many threads of the series. He takes stock of man's complex, sometimes precarious, ascent. Ultimately, he concludes that man's growth to self-knowledge is the longest childhood of all.