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Advantages: educational, interesting & cheap to buy Disadvantages: feature length
PLANET EARTH
'Planet Earth' is a longitudinal study of our world with everything involved from climate right through to animals and wonders of the world. This documentary is full of detail and exciting facts that will intrigue everyone who watches it. A camera crew go all around the world to give us at home the best understanding of everything and anything. If you have an interest in geography this is the perfect thing to watch. It is the best documentary ... ...look at the making of PLANET EARTH. I would recommend anyone who doesnt have this to buy it, it is a must have for all DVD collectors, animal lovers and geography students of all ages. Also would make a perfect gift.
Series has been previously broadcasted on TV.
Paul Mc Alister ...
Grey Gardens is a dramatised version of the cult documentary made in the 1970s, which centred on a mother and daughter living in a decrepit and dangerous old house in the rich Hamptons. Their story was introduced into the public forum as it was discovered that they were relatives of Jackie Onasis, yet had allowed themselves to live in horrifying and unsanitary conditions. Here, the writers try to give an insight into how two high society woman’s ... ...almost swallowed them whole.
Grey Gardens is a powerful and poignant portrait of two women whose lives have been changed by time, scarred by the pains of their past and haunted by the lives which they wished they had lived. It’s a story about turning a heart-breaking past into a hopeful future and works both as a sumptuously produced acting showcase and a moving, elegant tale about the overlapping qualities of courage and madness. It manages to ...
Advantages: watch it Disadvantages: repeated scenes from Blue Planet
Well it should come as no surprise to people that I would own this DVD set. It was released as this 2 disc set in 2003, although the more common format is the one disc version. The two discs I have are the actual documentary and the second disc of additional bonus features.
The first disc has the 90 minute documentary and the isolated Music/effects option. Since I havent tried to the isolated music/effects I cant tell you what it is like. What I ... ...as stunning with its imagery as The Blue Planet - which to be fair it should be since some of the best scenes from that have been reworked in this. The narration my Micheal Gambon feels somewhat different to that of David Attenborough, I cant really describe how it differs just that it does, maybe because this was a less mass market production (never having been broadcast on TV that I know of) and that Micheal Gambon is not someone I am familiar ...
scuba_angel 17.06.2007 ·Read full review
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Review of Deep Blue (DVD)
Advantages: An engaging documentary shot in unusual style. Disadvantages: The 18 certificate may prevent GCSE and A-Level students watching it.
Israeli film director Ari Folman is visited by his friend Boaz Rein-Buskila, who, like him, served in the Israeli army during the first Israel-Lebanon war in the early 80s. Boaz is haunted by dreams of being chased by twenty-six dogs through the streets of Beirut. Their chat is the beginning of the director’s own soul-searching into the events of twenty-five years ago and particularly the massacre at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps by Christian ... ...documentary. Firstly, it’s animated and secondly, it has a slightly more esoteric approach to hard fact with its use of dreams and rock-music led montages. But like all good documentaries, it gives a new perspective on its subject, rather than trotting out tired anti-war messages. It’s also unusual in that Folman examines his own involvement in the conflict, stirring up memories he had suppressed for a quarter of a century. It raises questions about ...
Advantages: makes you think, can be motivating Disadvantages: none
...faced bunch of Royal Marine Commando recruits all the way through 32 weeks of basic training. With complete access to every part of the training process he follows the good times and the bad of each of the recruits and something that I felt made the documentary that little more exciting was that he also took part in the training himself, Chris Terrill was 55 years old. The Program was originally aired in 2007 for ITV; at the beginning you see the ... ...of becoming a Royal Marine Commando and receiving the coveted Green Beret so that they can become elite soldiers that look a million miles away from the guys that they were 32 weeks earlier. After the 32 weeks training Chris follows a few of the successful soldiers when they are posted to Afghanistan for a tour of duty, as well as a new officer who takes up his post in Afghanistan for his first tour with a mainly rookie company of men. I managed ...
