Atheism Tapes: Now Available on DVD
December 30th, 2008 | by Alive Mind | Published in Atheism Tapes, Editor Picks, Films, Science and Philosophy | 8 Comments
As part of the making of the ground-breaking series “A Brief History of Disbelief,” Jonathan Miller filmed conversations with some very distinguished minds. Jonathan, of course, could not resist the temptation to make these conversations wide ranging and so – naturally enough – their final contributions to “A Brief History of Disbelief” are only a small part of the original interviews.In these off-the-record interviews, neurologist turned playwright, filmmaker and self-described atheist Jonathan Miller filmed conversations with six of today’s leading men of letters and science: biologist and New York Times best-selling author Richard Dawkins, philosophers Daniel Dennett and Colin McGinn, distinguished playwright Arthur Miller, theologian Denys Turner and Nobel Prize winning physicist Steven Weinberg, who discuss their personal intellectual journeys and offer illuminating analyses of nontheism from a wide range of perspectives.
The Atheism Tapes is a ground-breaking series that will challenge your basic beliefs.
To buy the educational version, please visit the Alive Mind Education page.
Part 1 with Colin McGinn, Steven Weinberg and Daniel Dennett
| The Atheism Tapes DVD | |
| Price: | $29.98 (Home Use) $254.00 (Educational, PPR) |
| Rated: | NR |
| Availability: | Worldwide |
| Running Time: | 180 minutes (6 interviews) |
| Technical Aspects: | 2 Discs, Dolby Digital, 16:9, NTSC Region 0 |
| Language: | English |
| Copyright: | © 2004 116 Films, Ltd. All rights reserved. |
August 20th, 2008 at 11:17 am (#)
One of the most valuable DVD’s you will ever own. It gives you an insight into the minds of the the elite thinkers; scholars who took upon themselves a dangerous lifestyle. The interviews bring you to the frontier of atheism through the minds of well known individuals.
Jonathan Miller does a great job in exploring the minds of Daniel Dennett, Denys Turner, Richard Dawkins, Colin McGinn, Arthur Miller and Steven Weinberg. Each man brought a different perspective to the topic of atheism, and how they feel about religion. Such diversity of views, yet unifying, gives you an exclusive understanding of the topic. Nowhere else will you find such intriguing interviews. I applaud Jonathan Miller for the ability to “herd cats” in such harmonic manner in which he was able to capture the viewers attention. I was unable to stop, with each ending I wanted more. Once it was over I realized that knowledge is the most unifying power that we, the humans, posses. It was an absolute pleasure to immerse my own mind into a collective pot of views that these interviews brought forth.
Classic! For it will give you a new perspective on the world, and the way your view your own self. You haven’t seen anything unless you’ve seen the Atheism Tapes.
September 11th, 2008 at 11:33 am (#)
The six 30-minute episodes of The Atheism Tapes all begin with this introduction by host Jonathan Miller:
“In the summer of 2003, I began filming the series Atheism - A Rough History Of Disbelief. As part of the process, I talked to a number of writers, scientists, historians and philosophers. Having secured their cooperation, I was very embarrassed to find that a large proportion of what went on ended up on the cutting room floor, simply because the series would have lasted 24 hours otherwise.
But as it happens, the BBC agreed with me that the conversations were too interesting to be junked and with these six supplementary programs, they’ve made the extremely unusual decision to go back to the original material and to broadcast, at length, some of the conversations I had - conservations with people such as English biologist Richard Dawkins, the American philosopher Daniel Dennet, the Cambridge theologian Denys Turner, the American playwright Arthur Miller, the English philosopher Colin McGinn, and the American Nobel Prize winning physicist, Steven Weinberg.”
Miller is one of those rare figures found on the BBC for which American television has no adequate counterpart. Miller is a neurologist, author, sculptor, director of theater, opera, and film and long-time BBC writer, producer, director and presenter. Miller is a confident, articulate, and thoughtful presenter capable of drawing engaging ideas out of his interviewees that never derails into the esoteric, muddled, or mundane. In this series, Miller discloses that he is reluctant to call himself an atheist because the term is treated as being largely synonymous with antitheist, whereas he simply never believed in God and never understood why anyone else did either, but has rarely gone out of his way to profess his disbelief.
The Atheism Tapes is the thoughtful kind of intellectual discourse rarely seen on American television. Host Jonathan Miller and his learned guests provide wide-ranging discussions in and around the topic of Atheism. While I would much prefer to have seen this released together with Atheism - A Rough History Of Disbelief, it works as a standalone effort.
The Atheism Tapes is recommended to viewers interested in viewing top-notch intellectual discourse generally, and is highly recommended to viewers specifically interested in Atheism.
Read the entire review by Chris Neilson here: http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/33376/atheism-tapes/?___rd=1
December 6th, 2008 at 12:33 am (#)
I missed a lot of the “History of Disbelief” when it
was recently broadcast on satellite TV. I would really
like to obtain a DVD of this program. From the bits that I
did get to watch it is an engaging, informative, and intensely
interesting program. I look forward to the “Atheist Tapes”
March 11th, 2009 at 8:52 am (#)
I’M SPANISH.I’M INTERESTED IN “THE ATHEISM TAPES” SINCE A LONG TIME,BUT ALTHOUGH MY ENGLISH ISN’T NOT VERY BAD…I THINK I WON’T UNDERSTAND THE BULK OF THE INTERVIEWS IF THEY HAVEN’T SUBTITLES IN ENGLISH.
THINK ABOUT ME LIKE IF I SHOULD DEAF.ACTUALLY ALMOST ALL THE DVD’S IN ENGLISH THAT I WATCH, I USUALLY USE THE ENGLISH SUBTITLES.(BY THIS WAY I LEARN; AND THE TRANSLATIONS ARE SO BAD,TOO!!!!)
PLEASE,ARE “THE ATHEISM TAPES” SUBTITLED IN ENGLISH????
AM I ALONE????
March 28th, 2009 at 5:50 pm (#)
I just saw your program A Bried History of Disbelief and would love it if you put it onto a DVD. Thanks, Cynthia Morgan
June 13th, 2009 at 2:08 am (#)
I´m also interested in see the atheism tapes with english or spanish subtitles. Anybody knows where to get them??
June 19th, 2009 at 10:28 pm (#)
subtitles? see transcription:
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Atheism_Tapes/Richard_Dawkins
kiko
October 27th, 2009 at 1:49 pm (#)
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