Charles and Ray Eames were among the finest designers of the 20th century. They are best known for their groundbreaking contributions to architecture, furniture design, industrial design and manufacturing. The legacy of this husband and wife team includes more than 75 films that reflect the breadth and depth of their interests. Volume 2 of this DVD collection includes seven of the Eames's unique films: Toccata for Toy Trains, House: After Five Years of Living, Lucia Chase Vignette, Kaleidoscopic Jazz Chair, The Black Ships, Atlas, Blacktop.

Charles and Ray Eames are among the finest designers of the 20th century. They are best known for their groundbreaking contributions to architecture, furniture design, industrial design and manufacturing. The legacy of this husband and wife team includes more than 75 films that reflect the breadth and depth of their interests. Volume 4 of this DVD collection includes six of the Eames's unique films: Design Q & A (1972, 5 min.), IBM Mathematics Peep Shows (1961, 12 min.), SX-70 (1972, 11 min.), Copernicus (1973, 9 min.), Fiberglass Chairs (1970, 9 min.), Goods (1971, 6 min.). 60 minutes.

Charles and Ray Eames are among the finest designers of the 20th century. They are best known for their groundbreaking contributions to architecture, furniture design, industrial design and manufacturing. The legacy of this husband and wife team includes more than 75 films that reflect the breadth and depth of their interests. Volume 5 of this DVD collection includes nine of the Eames's unique films: Tops (1969, 7 min.), IBM at the Fair (1965, 8 min.), A Computer Glossary (1968, 9 min.), Eames Lounge Chair (1956, 2 min.), The Expanding Airport (1958, 9 min.), Kepler's Laws (1974, 3 min.), Bread (1953, 7 min.), Polyorchis Haplus (1973, 3 min.), Tops [from Stars of Jazz] (1958, 4 min.).

This DVD was recorded on January 27, 1981 in Edmonton, Alberta at Jubilee Auditorium. It captures Ray Charles at his finest as a live performer, and includes performances of classics "Hit The Road Jack", "Georgia On My Mind", "And Take These Chains From My Heart", mixed in both stereo and Dolby Surround 5.1. Track Listing: 1. Riding Thumb 2. Busted 3. Georgia On My Mind 4. Oh, What A Beautiful Morning 5. Some Enchanted Evening 6. Hit The Road Jack 7. I Can't Stop Loving You 8. Take These Chains From My Heart 9. I Can See Clearly Now 10. What'd I Say 11. America The Beautiful 12. Long Gone Lonesome 13. Steel Guitar Rag 14. Let's Fall In Love

In concert with guest Ray Charles, Gladys Knight & the Pips take a soulful ride through the music that made them legends, performing hits such as "I've Got to Use My Imagination," "Neither One of Us" and the classic "Midnight Train to Georgia." Charles sings "America the Beautiful" and "Georgia on My Mind" as only he can, and a duet of "Hit the Road Jack" proves that genius truly loves company. Backstage interviews take you behind the scenes.

Volume 1 of this DVD collection includes an adventure in magnitudes, "Powers of Ten" (1968, 9 min.). Starting at a picnic by the lakeside in Chicago, this famous film transports us to the outer edges of the universe. Every ten seconds we view the starting point from ten times farther out, until our own galaxy is visible only as a speck of light among many others. Returning to earth with breathtaking speed, we move inward--into the hand of the sleeping picnicker--with ten times more magnification every ten seconds. Our journey ends inside a proton of a carbon atom within a DNA molecule in a white blood cell.

Charles and Ray Eames are among the finest designers of the 20th century. They are best known for their groundbreaking contributions to architecture, furniture design, industrial design and manufacturing. The legacy of this husband and wife team includes more than 75 films that reflect the breadth and depth of their interests. All three films in Volume 3 grew out of the remarkable exhibition, "The World of Franklin and Jefferson," designed by the Eames for the celebration of America's Bicentennial. The first film, "The World of Franklin and Jefferson" (1977, 35 min.), uses the lives of these two founding fathers as prisms through which to evoke colonial America. Also included on this volume: "The Franklin and Jefferson Proposal Film" (1973, 13 min.) and "Paris: The Opening of an Exhibition" (1976, 6 min.), showing the Paris opening of this incredible exhibit.

Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern musical circuit, the soulful singer gained a reputation and then exploded with worldwide fame when he pioneered coupling gospel and country together.