Lewis and Clark and Other Great Adventures | 
| Directors: Peter Nicholson, Mary Summerhill, Susan Mcmillan
Actors: Christopher Eccleston, John Lynch, David Yelland, Kal Weber
Studio: BBC Warner
Category: DVD
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 103558
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 147 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: WARDE4151D
UPC: 794051415127
EAN: 0794051415127
ASIN: B000T28Q0A
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
Release Date: October 9, 2007
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Product Description
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 10/09/2007 Run time: 147 minutes Rating: Nr
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great adventures February 27, 2008
Michael Eldicott (Cyprus,ex. UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This series of 3 programmes is properly called "Wilderness Men", the "other great adventurers" being Shackleton and Humboldt. The stories of Lewis, Clark and Shackleton are well known (and well represented on DVD), but Humboldt is somewhat obscure, although he was famous enough in his own day. He was a German naturalist who spent 5 years from 1799 in the jungles of South America, studying plants and animals and their inter-relationships. Each programme lasts about 50 minutes and provides adequate basic information. The format is the familiar one of dramatic recreations of certain scenes with photos and modern video of the locations backed by a narration, with contributions from experts, all done to the BBC's usual high standard. The programmes justify 4 or maybe 5 stars, but their presentation on DVD is marred not only by the incorrect name but advertising which can't be fast forwarded or jumped (an inexcusable device; when will DVD makers realise that advertising and self-laudatory sleeve notes serve only to cheapen the product?). It is to be hoped that the issue of this DVD (and Pompeii - The Last Day/Colosseum - A Gladiator's Story) marks a policy of releasing some of the BBC's lesser known programmes. I remember that many years ago they showed a great dramatisation of the life of Charles Darwin, and more recently dramatisations of the hunting down of man-eating big cats (a series I believe called "Manhunters").
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