Release date: 2004-03-26
Run time: 325 min.
List Price: $89.98
Price: $89.98
Review Mystic Lands Boxed Set - (Anasazi / Taj Mahal / Bali / Haiti / Varanasi / Australia / Bhutan / Maya / Burma / Jerusalem / Peru / Egypt / Greece) / Winstar:
Release date: 2000-06-13
Run time: 120 min.
List Price: $39.95
Price: $65.23
Review Painting the World (2pc) / Homevision:Neil MacGregor, director of the National Gallery in London, leads us with remarkable attention to detail through five centuries of European painting. Two hours in length, the program is divided in four segments; each can be viewed separately. Though he focuses on one painting in each segment to illustrate the viewpoint of people living in that century, MacGregor introduces us to numerous paintings in the National Gallery. He strolls through rooms filled with superb art as visitors of all ages look at paintings, making the appreciation of art appear natural and the art seem easily accessible. By looking directly at the viewer, MacGregor draws us into examining the paintings with new eyes. Rather than define them in terms of the artist's hand, he teaches us about the symbols in the paintings and their meaning. In the first segment, Hans Memling's portrait of the Donne family shows them in an altar triptych kneeling before the Virgin, the Infant Christ, and various saints, reflecting the 15th-century viewpoint that one's place in the world was due to God's grace. In subsequent segments, MacGregor shows how the 16th century embraced images and values of ancient Greece and Rome, emphasizing human relationships and friendship, while the 17th-century focus was on one's relationship to nature. The 18th and 19th centuries are summarized by the impact of the newly discovered laws of science on the choice of subject matter, and the new paints available to the artist. Thorough, lucid, and eloquently narrated, this program is a must-see for any art or cultural history lover. [+]-Anne Barclay Morgan This illuminating series from the BBC uses masterpieces from the National Gallery, London, to explore the European world view as it developed over five centuries-from the late Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution. National Gallery Director Neil MacG.
Release date: 1998-03-17
Run time: 225 min.
List Price: $49.98
Price: $179.95
Review Watergate, box set / Discovery Channel:On May 28, 1972, five men broke into the Democratic National Headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D. C. , and bungled things so badly that they were arrested before they could even take anything. American politics has never been the same since. What seemed like a routine break-in was actually the tip of a mammoth political iceberg, which ran from the intelligence operatives to members of the White House staff and finally to President Nixon himself, a man whose mission to find dirt on his opponents led to his ultimate and extremely public downfall. This four-hour-plus Discovery Channel retrospective (produced in 1994) is, bar none, the most comprehensive, intelligent, and exhaustive documentary you could ever find on the subject. Going far beyond a basic rehashing of the events, Watergate takes the viewer painstakingly through the entire scandal, from break-in to resignation. Narrated by NPR bigwig Daniel Schorr, the documentary utilizes video footage, newspaper coverage, those infamous White House tapes, and most impressively, interviews with all the living participants in the Watergate scandal (with the exception of Henry Kissinger), some reading from their own notes. It's amazing to hear the details of America's biggest political debacle straight from the horses' mouths-Haldeman, Erlichman, Liddy, John Dean, even Nixon himself via his 1977 interview with David Frost. If anything gets short shrift, it's the award-winning muckraking adventures of two reporters named Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (for that, check out the first-rate adaptation of All the President's Men). [+]Still, this is a clear-eyed portrait of Watergate from the inside, as never seen before, and covers this fascinating chapter of American history better than anything before it, and most likely anything to come. -Mark Englehart.
Actors & Directors
- Dennis Haysbert
- Frederick King Keller
- Kiefer Sutherland
- Leslie Hope
- Sarah Clarke
- Elisha Cuthbert
List Price: $89.98
Price: $99.98
Review Desmond Morris' The Human Sexes / Discovery Channel:
Release date: 1996-07-08
Run time: 780 min.
Price: $149.98
Review Carl Sagan's Cosmos - The Complete Collection / Turner Home Entertainment:
Release date: 1998-11-11
Run time: 150 min.
List Price: $29.99
Price: $89.98
Review Quest for the Lost Civilization - Boxed Set / Acorn Media:In this set of three videotapes, writer Graham Hancock traverses the world and explains his controversial theory that an ancient civilization, highly intelligent people who sailed the planet as early as 10,500 B. C. , spread advanced astronomical knowledge and built ancient observatories. Skeptics may scoff, but Hancock earnestly points out similarities in giant stone structures in the Egyptian desert and Cambodian jungles, and on Easter Island and in Micronesia, he points out what he considers evidence of an ancient society of seafarers. His ideas may seem utterly bizarre at first, but Hancock presents them in an understated and good-natured manner, and he also makes clever use of computer graphics and aerial photography to illustrate the startling similarities in ancient structures found from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific. At times the three documentaries overlap, and at times they seem like one long program rather than three separate presentations. But throughout, Hancock raises some puzzling questions, and even if you don't buy his arguments, bolstered though they are by mathematical equations and astronomical diagrams, the Quest for the Lost Civilization is an entertaining mixture of archaeology, astronomy, and speculation. -Robert J. McNamara.
Release date: 1998-05-26
Run time: 219 min.
Price: $39.98
Review Eco-Challenge: British Columbia Series / Unapix Consumer Products:
Release date: 1998-09-01
List Price: $69.98
Price: $99.00
Review Trials of Life: At Home in Wild / Turner Home Ent:
Release date: 1998-03-17
Run time: 150 min.
Price: $39.98
Review Brain Sex (3pc) / Discovery Channel:
Release date: 1999-09-14
Run time: 364 min.
Price: $79.98
Review The English House & The English Garden Gift Set / Hbo Home Video:
Release date: 1995-10-24
Run time: 840 min.
List Price: $149.98
Price: $79.99
Review Cosmos Gift Set Episodes 1-14 / Turner Home Entertainment:
Release date: 1999-10-19
Run time: 144 min.
Price: $49.95
Review Genius / Cromwell Productions Ltd.:
Release date: 2000-06-27
Run time: 250 min.
Price: $59.95
Review History of Sex (4pc) / A&E Home Video:From medieval talking penises and naughty priests to sexuality as transcendence in the Kama Sutra, the History Channel's five-part History of Sex debunks the myth of history's innocence. In Ancient Civilizations, Mesopotamian men considered women property and believed that divine masturbation created Egypt, that there were no virgins, and that some mummies had erect phalluses. In classical Greece, husbands had their pick of sexual partners and proper wives went dildo shopping. The Eastern World considers the spirituality and teaching of sex, including Chinese pillow books. The Middle Ages examines both denigration of the body and lusty, bawdy frivolity as well as the fashionable art of codpiece stuffing. The political extremes of repression and excess continue in From Don Juan to Queen Victoria with the pilgrims, the Marquis de Sade, frigid Victorian wives, and the golden age of prostitution and pornography. Finally, the 20th Century discusses the impact of motion pictures, automobiles, Stonewall, the pill, AIDS, and the Internet on sex. The series relies on upper-class men's historical records and therefore underrepresents women and homosexuals. However, the commentary from a diverse and insightful panel of academics and the rich selection of historic images make this a tasteful, informative history of sex. -Tara Chace.
Release date: 1997-07-08
Run time: 600 min.
List Price: $69.98
Price: $124.99
Review Russia's War - Blood Upon the Snow / Pbs Home Video:
Release date: 1998-08-25
Run time: 444 min.
Price: $49.98
Review 4x4 By Watts, Box Set / Unapix Consumer Products:
Release date: 1995-04-04
Run time: 240 min.
List Price: $69.98
Price: $70.00
Review Voices & Visions Vol 01 Box Set / Unapix Consumer Products:
Release date: 1999-06-29
Run time: 300 min.
List Price: $99.95
Price: $99.99
Review Great Adventurers (6pc) / Kultur Video:
Release date: 2000-11-22
Run time: 300 min.
List Price: $99.95
Price: $85.25
Review The Great Artists - The Post-Impressionists (Box Set) / Kultur Video:Six new programs in the continually expanding series, "The Great Artists. " This unique series chronicles the lives, times and works of the greatest artists in history. Informative and entertaining, the series highlights important events in each artist's life, and explores their style, while providing detailed explanations of their techniques. The programs place each artist in historical context highlighting the events which inspired their work, providing a better understanding of the artist's creative process. Each program includes new on-location footage, as well as expert commentary and analyses by world renowned art experts. Includes Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, Munch, and Rousseau.
Release date: 2001-09-11
Run time: 540 min.
List Price: $74.98
Price: $65.50
Review National Geographic - Africa / Nat'l Geographic Vid:From National Geographic Television and Thirteen/WNET New York, Africa is a groundbreaking eight-hour series captured over two years of filming in 11 countries. This epic series presents Africa through the eyes of its people, conveying the diversity and beauty of the land and the compelling personal stories of the people who shape its future. Africa contains eight hours plus one-hour bonus program, "The Making of Africa. ".
Actors & Directors
- Cg Jung
- Wisdom of the Dream
Run time: 156 min.
Price: $59.95
Review The Wisdom of the Dream: C G Jung (Life of Dream/ Inheritance of Dream/ A World Of Dreams) / Home Vision:
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Mystic Lands Boxed Set - (Anasazi / Taj Mahal / Bali / Haiti / Varanasi / Australia / Bhutan / Maya / Burma / Jerusalem / Peru / Egypt / Greece), Painting the World (2pc), Watergate, box set, Desmond Morris' The Human Sexes, Carl Sagan's Cosmos - The Complete Collection, Quest for the Lost Civilization - Boxed Set, Eco-Challenge: British Columbia Series, Trials of Life: At Home in Wild, Brain Sex (3pc), The English House & The English Garden Gift Set, Cosmos Gift Set Episodes 1-14, Genius, History of Sex (4pc), Russia's War - Blood Upon the Snow, 4x4 By Watts, Box Set, Voices & Visions Vol 01 Box Set, Great Adventurers (6pc), The Great Artists - The Post-Impressionists (Box Set), National Geographic - Africa, The Wisdom of the Dream: C G Jung (Life of Dream/ Inheritance of Dream/ A World Of Dreams)Top headlines: Advancing Atlantic swallows African village: The old shore road to Totope is now under the sea, and when developers began carving out another one, it was washed away so often they abandoned it. ›14:13 26 Aug, Tue Biden goes after McCain as he joins ticket: Joe Biden set the stage Wednesday for Barack Obamas historic address as the Democratic nominee by launching a heated attack tying John McCain to the Bush White House. ›03:35 How hookups and hang-ups delay manhood: From career aimlessness and unhealthy relationships to the beer and porn culture that defines Guyland, sociologist Michael Kimmel writes about why many young men are trapped between adolescence and adulthood. 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