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Summary: The Dark Ages
Comment: A very useful review of the times and famous people involved in that, for many, mysterious era of history.
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Summary: A little disappointed...
Comment: As I stated in the title, after watching this documentary I stayed little disappointed. Only good thing about it, that this is only available documentary about early middle ages that exist in English. If not, it would receive two. Anyway the beginning was promising, the first problems began with Justinian and cheap acting. After that things went worse with portrayal of Charlemagne, it was more said about his love affairs than his campaigns and renovation of Europe. Then I left stunned - there wasn't any mention about HRE, but instead some story about one viking warlord, totally uncomparable with other rulers in DA! After all there wasn't any mention about Basil II, one of greatest persons on the end of early medieval time, there were some sad explanations about beginning of crusades, but more child stories then real history. Sad. It started very promising, but last 30 minutes was BIG waste of time.
Three stars.
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Summary: Good For Teachers
Comment: Good Information, as expected, also interesting and engaging for students. This is a great review of the early middle ages leading to the crusades.
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Summary: high school teacher
Comment: I used this for my world history class at the high school level and I found it very useful and interesting to the students. The re-enactments were great especially concerning Charlemagne.
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Summary: Educative, Interesting, covers a lot of areas, revealing
Comment: Its a good show, I thought they touched upon a majority of the areas of this time, but thats all,
They have not done too much more detailing on these areas, hence this dvd is only about 30 mins or so,
its a good dvd, and the narration is also quite good...
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