Related Works
All three Connections documentaries have been released in their entirety as DVD box sets in the US (Region 1) only.
Burke also wrote a series of Connections articles in Scientific American, and published a book of the same name (1995, ISBN 0-316-11672-6), all built on the same theme of exploring the history of science and ideas, going back and forth through time explaining things on the way and, generally, coming back to the starting point.
Connections, a Myst-style computer game with James Burke and others providing video footage and voice acting, was released in 1995.
Burke produced another documentary series called The Day the Universe Changed in 1985, which explored man's concept of how the universe worked in a manner similar to the original Connections.
Art of the Problem is a video series that was launched in 2011 on Kickstarter.com that was inspired by James Burke's Connections. However, it follows concepts rather than inventions through time.
Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections, shown on BBC2, follows a similar format.
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