Your Guide To The Best History DVDs Starting With The Highest Reviews

The True Story of the Bridge on the River Kwai (History Channel)

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: A&E Home Video
Release Date: 2005-09-27
Running Time: 100 minutes

The film "The Bridge on the River Kwai" dramatized the WWII story of the Thailand-Burma Railway, yet it was largely fictional. Over 65,000 Allied P.O.W.s battled torture, starvation, and disease to hack the 255-mile railway out of harsh jungle for the Japanese. Finishing in only 14 months, many never returned from "The Railway of Death".... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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Dancetime DVD! 500 Years of Social Dance: Volume I: 15th-19th centuries

Starring: Jim Brosnahan
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Dancetime Publications
Release Date: 2002-11-25
Running Time: 45 minutes

DANCETIME DVD! 500 Years of Social Dance, Volume I, has greatly expanded the content of the popular video (DANCETIME! 500 Years of Social Dance, Volume I). It features the social dances, music, and fashions of 500 years of Western culture PLUS 233 instructional dance documents, with 15th through 19th century historical timelines. The extraordinary innovation, allows the viewers to see the synchron... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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Tutankhamun & The Golden Age of the Pharaohs

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Icon Records
Release Date: 2007-07-10
Running Time: 118 minutes

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Sister Wendy - The Complete Collection (Story of Painting / Grand Tour / Odyssey / Pains of Glass)

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Warner
Release Date: 2006-09-26
Running Time: 520 minutes

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Grass: A Nation's Battle For Life

Starring: Haidar Khan
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Image Entertainment
Release Date: 2000-03-28
Running Time: 71 minutes

A classic adventure by the makers of "King Kong." In 1924, neophyte filmmakers Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack hooked up with journalist and sometime spy Marguerite Harrison and set off to film an adventure. They found excitement, danger and unparalleled drama in the migration of the Bakhtiari tribe of Persia (now Iran). Twice a year, more than 50,000 people and half a million animals su... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: WGBH Boston
Release Date: 2000-08-01
Running Time: 360 minutes

"Everything you thought you knew about slavery is about to be challenged." So says WGBH about its six-hour series Africans in America, and they are absolutely right. Interviews with historians and luminaries such as General Colin Powell, dramatic re-creations of important events, and beautiful photography create a vivid and compelling story of over 400 years of tragedy. Ten million African... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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Connections 2 (5 DVD set)

Rated: Unrated
Studio: Ambrose Video
Release Date: 2003-09-02
Running Time: 92 minutes

Disc 1 Revolutions, Sentimental Journeys, Getting it Together, Whodunit?

Disc 2 Something for Nothing, Echoes of the Past, Photo Finish, Separate Ways

Disc 3 High Times, Deja Vu, New Harmony, Hot Pickle

Disc 4 The Big Spin, Bright Ideas, Making Waves, Routes

Disc 5 One Word, Sign Here, Better Than the Real Thing, Flexible Response... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online

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NOVA: A Man, a Plan, a Canal - Panama

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: WGBH Boston
Release Date: 2004-06-29
Running Time: 60 minutes

A 30-year dream. A 50-mile shortcut. A timeless achievement.

A 50-mile shortcut to the Pacific lying just north of the equator is one of the most extraordinary human achievements ever. The building of the Panama Canal was a massive feat of engineering and ingenuity that cost millions of dollars and thousands of lives. NOVA offers a unique opportunity to explore the mind-boggling undertaking th... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online

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NOVA - Typhoid Mary: The Most Dangerous Woman in America

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: WGBH Boston
Release Date: 2005-01-04
Running Time: 60 minutes

Interweaving biography and social history, The Most Dangerous Woman in America tells the extraordinary story of Mary Mallon, better known as Typhoid Mary. She gained this notoriety by being the first person in North America to be identified as a healthy carrier of typhoid fever. Despite her indignant protests of innocence, she was incarcerated for years on an island in New York's East River. Mary ... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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China: A Century of Revolution (Three Disc Set)

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Zeitgeist Films
Release Date: 2007-07-10
Running Time: 360 minutes

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