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* Actors: Frederick Banting, Charles Best, J.B. Collip, Alexander Fleming, Henry Ford, See more
* Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Ntsc
* Studio: Wgbh Boston
* DVD Release Date: September 6, 2005
* Average Customer Review: Based on 2 Reviews
* Note on DVD sets: During shipping, discs in multidisc sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we’ll refund or replace your purchase.
* From IMDb: Quotes & Trivia
* ASIN: B0007GP7ZA
* Amazon.com Sales Rank: #22,824 in DVD

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Product Description:
Penicillin. The airplane. Pulsars. Organ transplants. The atomic bomb. Psychoanalysis. The Model T. DNA. Volcanoes. The computer. Apollo 8. Travel to the dramatic frontier of scientific discovery and exploration as the most astonishing 100 years of science and technology dramatically unfold with the premiere of A Science Odyssey - the journey of a century. Hosted by award-winning journalist Charles Osgood, this five-part, ten-hour series explores the sweeping changes that have revolutionized life and thinking in the twentieth century.

Each two-hour episode moves chronologically through the century, blending exciting historic adventures - full of twists and turns, suspense and surprise - with the political, economic, and cultural changes that have caused or come about because of scientific discovery. Through illuminating first-hand interviews, rare historical footage, and state-of-the-art computer animations, A Science Odyssey offers a rich behind-the-science chronicle of the century’s most revolutionary scientific and technological discoveries.