Ambrose Video Publishing
21) Julius Caesar
Pub. Date
[200-?]
Description
Shakespeare draws upon actual events in ancient Roman history and clouds the line between actual heroes and villains.
Pub. Date
c2002, c1992
Description
This six part series on three videodiscs explores the influence on ancient culture on our lives today. Host, Michael Wood visits the ancient cities and great ports of India and China, the deserts of Egypt and Iraq, the Mexico of the Inca, Aztec and Mayan peoples, the Greek and Roman monuments of Europe and the jungles of Central America searching for the living legacies of these once great civilizations. The series traces how the institutions that...
26) Hamlet
Pub. Date
1987, c1980
Description
This richly costumed production maintains all the tension of a murder mystery as it examines the fundamental issues of justice, guilt and death.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Episode 1 examines the creation of the court and follows it through the brink of the Civil War, paying particular attention to the fourth chief justice of the Supreme Court, John Marshall, and his successor, Roger Taney. Episode 2 explores the issues before the court from the aftermath of the Civil War through the 1930s. This was a period of unprecedented economic growth as the nation industrialized but was also a time of unregulated work conditions...
28) Body atlas
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
"Now we can actually probe within the living body, using miniature cameras and endoscopy, ultrasound and X-ray tomography. This amazing investigation is an invaluable teaching tool. Actually see the links between the inside and outside workings of the body, the complex coordination required to do everyday tasks."--Distributor's catalog.