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THE WORLD AT WAR.

Advantages: DIVIDED INTO SECTIONS.
Disadvantages: NONE

...as i did not buy the box set and got the world at war in 5 seperate parts. I have combined my review. THE WORLD AT WAR DVD COLLECTION This is the definitive collection of documentaries from WWII. Coming to us more than 30 years after it was initially broadcast. It is narrated by academy award winner, Sir Lawrence Olivier. I bought all 5 volumes from retrowarez-promotions on ebay. Priced at £6.79 each with £2 postage. Volume 1 runs for 417 minutes, ...
...the Nazis in Germany. And the start of the war. It also includes the making of. And more. Volume 2 features archival footage fro 1939 –1944 and documents the Russian victories and the bombing raids in England. It runs for 432 minutes. And more. Volume 3 runs for 416 minutes and documents the Third Reich, Japan, D-day with archival footage from 1933 –1945 and more. Volume 4 has a run time of 260 minutes. Part 4 is narrated by Sir Laurence Olivier ...

stezatois1 26.07.2007 · Read full review
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Review of The World At War Vol. 2 (DVD)

So what was the UK like 3 billion years ago?

Advantages: Amazing views of British landscapes, clever special effects.
Disadvantages: Titchmarsh can get on your nerves, and nothing new here for the academic

British Isles: A Natural History was a BBC television series in late 2004 in which Alan Titchmarsh travelled all over the UK to trace the origins of the country and find out how the landscape has changed. As a geography student I watched the series when it was on television, while studying for my A-levels at the time. I have to say that I did not learn a lot from the series; it is rather basic and gives a very broad overview of the past 3 billion ...
...if older members of the British public find this sort of viewing entertaining, but as a 20-year-old I can tell you that it seems to be a waste of valuable filming time when they could be showing more beautiful landscapes! Anyway, that's the great thing about the DVD, you can just skip past these bits if you want to! I have to praise the special effects in the series. Like any nature documentary it has the fast forwarded time series of flowers blooming ...

gg724 31.05.2007 · Read full review
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Review of British Isles: A Natural History (DVD)

mega

Advantages: enthusiasm
Disadvantages: none

...Out Of Here ' , John sets off on a quest to find the largest and scariest insects in the world and find what it is that makes them so scary. Features spiders, scorpions, bees, leeches, cockroaches, flies, ants and wasps . Through 10 exciting episodes , join John Lydon's breath-taking journey in search of some of the world's most deadly creatures. In his enthusiastic company we enter the dark world of spiders, mosquitoes, cockroaches, scorpions ...

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Review of John Lydon - Mega Bugs (DVD)

In Sickness and in Health

Advantages: Interesting and entertaining, Great interview with Tony Benn
Disadvantages: Some subjects are arguably exploited, Does not consider disadvantages of socialised healthcare

"Sicko" (2007) - FILM ONLY REVIEW Writer: Michael Moore Director: Michael Moore Running Time: 123 minutes Certificate: 12A (UK) / PG (Ireland) / PG13 (USA) It has become something of a cliché to describe Michael Moore as a controversial, polarising character. To some, he is the White Knight of the left whose regular-guy approach to discussing uncomfortable subjects should be applauded, while to others he is a man who has exploited vulnerable interview ...
...picture he wants to make his attention-grabbing documentaries a success. An entire industry has grown up attempting to discredit Moore's work and has given his reputation something of a battering over recent years, but while some of the criticism he has received has I think been justified, this has not prevented him producing his highly entertaining 2007 documentary "Sicko" about the American medical industry. In many ways, this has proved to be ...

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Review of Sicko (DVD)

He Was Never Any Good At Hide & Seek

Advantages: sensitive adaptation of the biography of the same name, good acting and character portrayal
Disadvantages: a bit soppy at time, events not in order in which they happen in the book

[Film Only Review] A few weeks ago I wrote about the amazing biography by Brad Cohen, how he overcame the stigma of Tourette syndrome* (TS from herein) and became a teacher and motivational speaker. Today I want to talk about the movie that actually first introduced me to Brad Cohen, who is not just a character in a movie but a real person. Brad Cohen developed TS in early childhood and was stigmatised by most of his peers, as well as some family, ...
...fulfil his ultimate dream, to become a teacher, the teacher he never had when he was at school. *Tourette syndrome (also called Tourette's syndrome, Tourette's disorder, Gilles de la Tourette syndrome, GTS or, more commonly, simply Tourette's or TS) is an inherited neuropsychiatric disorder with onset in childhood, characterized by the presence of multiple physical (motor) tics and at least one vocal (phonic) tic; these tics characteristically ...

Tempus_Fugit 03.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Front of the Class (DVD)