Ewan McGregor And Charley Boorman - Long Way Round (Director's Cut) (Special Edition) (DVD)

...whats this series about? Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman document their trip of a life time where they travelled from London to New york on motorbikes. They did this successfully by using cameras, they both had a camera in their helmets and another attached to the bikes. They were also creating video diaries although this didn’t happen too regularly. Among the places they ride through are Europe, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Siberia ...
...a team of people assisting Ewan and Charlie to work out the best routes from and through each country and organising the visas they need for each country. They also had to decide on the bikes they thought would do the best job at getting them through this long and hard adventure. After disscussions Ewan and Charlie chose two bikes they wanted to compare, Ewan wanted the BMW and Charlie wanted the KTM. After off road tests on both bikes, the fact ...

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Review of Ewan McGregor And Charley Boorman - Long Way Round (Director's Cut) (Special Edition) (DVD)

...the epic adventure undertaken by Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman in 2004 to travel from London to New York...the long way, through Europe to Far East Russia, and then across to Canada and the USA. It first aired on Sky One, and it was there that I watched it for the first time. I've been a fan of Ewan McGregor for a long time (interesting fact - he went to school with my cousin) and when I saw the adverts the show was promoted more about motorbikes ...
...the next one! Ewan and Charley were long time friends, and once Ewan came up with this mad idea, they brought in other friends and acquaintances to help make it happen. They included their producers David Alexanian and Russ Malkin, cameramen Jim Simak and Claudio Von Planta, and numerous other based in their office in London and around the world to help them with visas, language and local customs. The route took in the UK, Belgium, Germany, Czech ...

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Review of Ewan McGregor And Charley Boorman - Long Way Round (Director's Cut) (Special Edition) (DVD)

...the adventures of best friends Ewan McGregor (Star Wars, Trainspotting) and Charley Boorman (On Edge, The Bunker) as they travel from London to New York via Europe, Russia, Mongolia and other countries with nothing but themselves, their motorbikes and their camera man Claudio, (plus a small support crew following behind, but rarely interfering with their journey). They get themselves in some very peculiar situations, have a few near-death experiences, ...
...The friendship between Ewan and Charley is obvious for all to see and the shows themselves are both entertaining and, in places, touching. They decided to work with Unicef and throughout their travels they go to various Unicef hostels around the globe to see the work Unicef do, meet the children and try and help out anyway they can. I think the significant thing about the show is, certainly for me, it raised my awareness of Unicef's work - I hadn't ...

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Review of Ewan McGregor And Charley Boorman - Long Way Round (Director's Cut) (Special Edition) (DVD)

...of the first trip that Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman made together on motorbikes. The DVD i am reviewing is the 2 disc set which contains both unseen and extended footage. The trip took a long time to play and ultimately was a journey from London to New York via Europe, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Siberia, USA and Canada. The DVD covers the entire television series. The way the two discs are split is disc one conatins episodes ...
...disc has the remaining episodes on , namely 4, 5, 6 and 7. The total running time is about 6 hours so ideally you wont want to watch them in one sitting. The extras are the unseen material, the photo gallery and the exclusive post trip interview. The DVD's start with the planning stage where they have to trial possible motobikes that may be suitabel for a trip like this, they settle on either a KTM or BMW. Those that have watched the series will ...

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Review of Ewan McGregor And Charley Boorman - Long Way Round (Director's Cut) (Special Edition) (DVD)

I liked the sound of this documentary, purchased it and watched the whole thing through in one evening (was up till 2:30am). It is absolutely excellent, the two leads have a brilliant relationship, and it is the relationship between them that makes the film. Loved the "you don't need to see our identification, move along" quote when they were at a border crossing. A great "blokes" movie. ps. You don't have to like motorbikes, but it'll help. ...

GrahamPearce 18.08.2007
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Review of Ewan McGregor And Charley Boorman - Long Way Round (Director's Cut) (Special Edition) (DVD)

...pride for them and a massively strong desire to apply everything they gave to achieving it to your own daily life. and surprisingly it didn't give me any sense of resentment for to people being given there dream because both Ewan McGregor and Charley Boreman are completely honest and genuine. ...

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