The Ascent of Man (BBC2 Documentary) - MP4/M4V for smartphones torrent

An American Film Festival Award winner, this 13 volume series attempts a massive survey of science, from flint tools to the theory of relativity. The series, a co-production of the BBC and Time-Life Films was made as a science counterpart to "Civilization". It is given superb technical support, with two crews using innovative filming techniques, shooting in 27 countries. Dr. Jacob Bronowski makes for an unorthodox narrator, his non-scripted delivery ranging from hushed awe to trembling passion. He uses the crawling infant, the performing athlete, the development of the hunt and the discovery of fire to illustrate the most distinctive feature of man: imagination. His Scientific-Humanism is often spectacular, always provocative.



Episodes:

1. Lower than the Angels - Evolution of man from proto-ape to 400,000 years ago.

2. The Harvest of the Seasons - Early human migration, agriculture and the first settlements, war.

3. The Grain in the Stone - Tools, development of architecture and sculpture.

4. The Hidden Structure - Fire, metals and alchemy.

5. Music of the Spheres - The language of numbers.

6. The Starry Messenger - Galileo's universe

7. The Majestic Clockwork - Explores Kepler and Newton's laws.

8. The Drive for Power - The Industrial Revolution.

9. The Ladder of Creation - Darwin and Wallace's ideas on the origin of species.

10. World within World - The story of the periodic table.

11. Knowledge or Certainty - Physics and the clash of absolute knowledge, the oppressive state, and its misgivings realizing the result of its terrible outcome.

12. Generation upon Generation - Life, genetics, and the cloning of identical forms.

13. The Long Childhood - Bronowski's treatise on the commitment of man.

14. Interview with sir David Attenborough