- Actors: RJ Allison
- Directors: Christopher Cassel
- Format: Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Import
- Language: English
- Region: (US and Canada This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 1
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- Studio: Sma Distribution
- Release Date: May 29 2007
- Run Time: 94 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- ASIN: B000NO2416
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6 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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A 1000 years of history,
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This review is from: Dark Ages (DVD)
I enjoy history but I found that there was a huge gap in time that no one wanted to talk about. There was a thousand years in there that no one really disused, from 200AD to 1200AD.This video takes you through the missing years talking about the collapse of the Roman Empire, which created a huge void. That fractured the empire and then several people then tried to take over through war only grabbing a piece of it. Most of Europe was created in the absence of the Roman Empire. The video takes you through the next thousand years stopping at the most notable events roughly every hundred years. There was a lot of war, disease and sadness after the fall of the Roman Empire. It was the years that saw religion rise and nations being built all with a huge cost to all that lived in those times. They did a good job of filming it too. There were actors filling the screen on how it likely unfolded with a narrator in the background telling you what you were seeing. Occasionally an expert or pictures of the time were shown so you can see why they thought that this was the way it happened. Rome fell because leadership was corrupted and they only cared about themselves and not the nation. It also shows that sometimes you need a strong man to run an empire with an iron fist to keep the law and order. We certainly have seen what happens when they are removed. Our leaders today would do well to watch this video and avoid the known consequence of there actions. We certainly don't need another dark age.
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4.0 out of 5 stars (47 customer reviews) 146 of 147 people found the following review helpful
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A Fantastic Introduction to the Dark Ages!,
By Matthew S. Schweitzer "zohoe" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Dark Ages (DVD)
The History Channel really delivers in this awesome documentary on the history of The Dark Ages, the period between the Fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Middle Ages. It is generally remembered as a bleak period when civilization in the West teetered on the verge of total collapse and barbarian warlords fought with each other when they weren't busy fighting Viking hordes, Muslim invaders, or Byzantine armies.The Dark Ages uses recent scholarship and high production values to recreate the period just after the fall of Rome in the late 5th century A.D. The Roman Empire in the West had collapsed and a ragtag band of barbarians made up of Goths, Vandals, Franks, and Lombards wage bloody warfare against each other to divide up the pieces of the once-great Empire. In the East, the remnants of the Empire live on under the Emperor Justinian who becomes obsessed with recapturing Rome and reconquering the West. Meanwhile, the Franks, easily the most powerful of the post-Roman tribes, have begun to establish a great kingdom under the Merovingian dynasty, led by King Clovis, whose conversion to Christianity helps secure its place in the history of Europe. The documentary then touches on the Viking raids along the English and Irish coasts, the desperate struggle to crush the invading Muslim armies that threaten to capture all of Spain and France, and ultimately, the consolidation of Western Europe as part of the Holy Roman Empire under Charlemagne. This is probably one of the best History Channel DVDs out there and shows that a good amount of time and effort went into create this production. While of course it cannot tell every detail of the nearly 500 year period of the Dark Ages, it does a good job of providing an excellent introduction to the subject. It is one which recommends itself to anyone who claims to be a student of history. 37 of 39 people found the following review helpful
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Not so dark ages,
By Stratiotes Doxha Theon "2 Thes 2:15" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Dark Ages (DVD)
A fascinating and entertaining account of the not-so-dark ages. Solid scholarship wrapped in colorful graphics and reenactments. Very well done. The only criticism might be that it is far too short and leaves one wanting more details.
19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
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History of Dark Ages; Early Christian -vs- pagan in europe,
By Kathleen Lee Anderson "Kitty Anderson" - Published on Amazon.com
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If have an avid curiosity about history, this is for you! Especially if you are interested in the history of Europe during the dark ages. While it is very informative, it is spoken in a language that retains your interest. In other words, it is not dry and boring, BUT like a walk through a period of time you have never seen. The challenge in Europe of the plague, pagan -vs- Christianity, ending at the reign of Charlemage. I loved it!
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