Product Details

• Actors: Narrated By Kathleen Turner
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: A&E Home Video
• DVD Release Date: December 27, 2005
• Run Time: 50 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000BKVL9I
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #62,591 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Two-thousand years ago, Rome was an all-powerful empire and Pompeii was one of its prosperous provincial towns-until Mount Vesuvius exploded in the largest eruption ever recorded. In a matter of hours the thriving city was entombed under a thick layer of ash and debris, undiscovered for centuries. ANCIENT MYSTERIES® journeys to the first century to explore the remarkable city of Pompeii. Recreate the events leading up to the explosion and learn how the ash kept the city and its inhabitants--the only significant discovery of Roman bodies ever--in a unique state of preservation. Wander through the ancient streets of this sophisticated society and witness current excavations. Interviews with archaeologists and historians, extensive location footage, and archival documents-including one remaining eyewitness account-shed eerie light on the cataclysmic eruption of POMPEII, a city frozen in time. (Narrated by Leonard Nimoy) DVD Features: Interactive Menus; Scene Selection

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 79 a.d. Pompeii revisited, December 23, 2008

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C. A. Heim "Dominican" (Oil City, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ancient Mysteries - Pompeii: Buried Alive (DVD)

This is a well-done production using a lot of imagination with real facts and images. I recently toured Pompeii and felt like I knew the people who died there. This DVD worked well with my Latin students after we studied Pompeii. I would highly recommend it to anyone interested in Pompeii's history.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Very Disappointing, March 28, 2010

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LibertyLuvr (Dublin, OH) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ancient Mysteries - Pompeii: Buried Alive (DVD)

I'm not sure why the other reviewers have given this DVD such high marks. I received this DVD as a Christmas gift. My family and I excitedly sat down to watch it the day after Christmas, and all of us felt let down afterwards. First of all, you can't go into any real depth in just 50 minutes. It's a really cursory overview - and not a very good one. Second, they didn't even focus solely on the event itself! There were pontificating "experts" going on about how horrible the Pompeiians were to own slaves and how women weren't treated equally. Could someone please tell me what the &^#$^% that has to do with Pompeii being buried alive? I was expecting some video and photos of the Pompeii ruins as they are today, with those being tied in to what happened on that fateful day. No such luck. I was hoping for some insight into the people of Pompeii whose remains were found - what might they have been doing at the time this happened? What was the city of Pompeii like pre-eruption? What would have been some of the daily activities of those people? I know, given the short length of the documentary, that they couldn't have gone into any real detail; but couldn't they have then at least focused all of the time they did have to painting a real portrait of what happened that day? Did we really need the preaching from modern-day historians about how un-enlightened the people were 2,000 years ago? The crowning hallmark of any documentary is the viewer walking away from it knowing more about the subject than he/she did before. In that, it failed miserably.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars VERY INFORMATIVE!, April 20, 2010

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This review is from: Ancient Mysteries - Pompeii: Buried Alive (DVD)

BOUGHT IT AS PART OF MY RESEARCH BEFORE VISITING POMPEII LAST YEAR. FOUND IT VERY INFORMATIVE ESPECIALLY SINCE I LEARNED WHEN I DID VISIT THAT THERE AREN'T ANY SIGNS ON ANYTHING SO THE MORE YOU LEARN AHEAD OF TIME, THE BETTER!!