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DVD

Guns, germs, and steel

Call Number

  • DVD 303.4 G9767 (CEN)

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Edition

Widescreen version.

Performers

Host and consultant, Jared Diamond ; narrated by Peter Coyote.

Publication Information

[United States] : National Geographic : Distributed in the U.S.A. by Warner Home Video, c2005.

Physical Description

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

Summary

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.

Notes

DVD format ; Dolby digital.

Videodisc release of the 2005 documentary.

Based on the book by Jared Diamond.

Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.

Not rated.

Contents

  • Disc 1. Episode 1. Out of Eden ; Episode 2. Conquest
  • Disc 2. Episode 3. Into the tropics ; special features.

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