Guns, germs, and steel [DVD video].

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Publication Date:

2005

Publication Information:

[United States] : National Geographic, p2005.

Physical Description:

2 videodiscs (165 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

ISBN:

9780792292555

Abstract:

An epic detective story that offers a gripping expose on why the world is so unequal. Professor Jared Diamond traveled the globe for over 30 years trying to answer this question. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book. Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? Diamond dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns.

General Note:

Closed-captioned.

Title from disc surface.

Widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital.

Videodisc release of a 2004 television program.

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book.

Publisher may vary.

Special features include: Interactive maps; timelines; photo gallery.

Performers:

Host and consultant, Jared Diamond.

Contents:

Disc 1 (110 min.). Episode 1, Out of Eden / produced & directed by Tim Lambert ; Episode 2, Conquest / produced & directed by Tim Lambert -- Disc 2 (55 min.). Episode 3. Into the tropics / director, Cassian Harrison ; special features.

Subject Term:

Social evolution.

Civilization -- History.

Ethnology.

Human beings -- Effect of environment on.

Culture diffusion.

Genre:

Documentary television programs.

Language:

English

Added Corporate Author:

National Geographic Society (U.S.)