Product Details

• Format: NTSC
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: A&E Home Video
• DVD Release Date: October 27, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002MXG520
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #139,647 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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BATTLE 360: THE COMPLETE SEASON 1

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Battle 360: Complete Season 1 Blu Ray, February 14, 2011

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Simon - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Battle 360: Complete Season 1 [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)

Perhaps the most authorotative visual documentary style on WWII in the Pacific focusing on the U.S.S. Enterprise carrier set against stunning computer generated visual graphics that take you into the heart of the battle. Cleverly choreographed scenes derived from actual living [and deceased] eye witness reports, - true-life accounts of the Enterprise's exploits and the airmen who served and fought aboard this most intrepid of WWII carriers to ever see such distinguished combat service in the Pacific ocean.

The Blu Ray version is excellent in HD, and has 'user friendly' graphics to easily help navigate your way around episodes and/or chapters in the Enterprise's history right up until her painful post-war decommissioning and eventual scrapping.

Soundtrack is only two-channel however, [left and right, - not surround] but most up-to-date HDMI equipped amplifiers will give you listenable 'incremental surround' if that's your liking. Emphasis here would be on actual period news footage, narration, interviews with surviving servicemen, aided by state of the art computer graphics or CGI, with nice textures and realism to the airplanes and ships involved.

Episode one includes stunning CGI re-enactment of a Japanese G4M 'Betty' bomber 'slicing across' Enterprise's rear deck with her stbd wingtip, - slicing off a parked Douglas Dauntless's tailplane as the rear gunner fires undauntedly at the doomed Betty as she scythes/cart-wheels into the see just off of her stern in a huge fountain of water and debris....

Great stuff for war buffs and history fanatics, like me!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Battle 360 - What a great history lesson., July 11, 2011

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Mark A. Mcghan (Richland, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Battle 360: Complete Season 1 (DVD)

I enjoyed this history of the Enterprise aircraft carrier so much I bought a copy for my dad. I'm sorry to say I did not know all this ship did for our great country in WWII. These types of lessons should be taught in the school system but sadly this and many other WWII history lessons of the great United States are not. I recommend this to everybody, young and old. It is a complete history of the Enterprise and her courageous men fighting the Japanese. The graphics are great and they explain each battle in easy to understand detail.

4.0 out of 5 stars Good, but Graphics are Irritating, December 9, 2011

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This review is from: Battle 360: Complete Season 1 (DVD)

Again, we get an above average show, that could have been so much better. The information is accurate and entertaining. However, the animation feels just like a video game, all the way down to computer-like sound effects when certain scenes are shown. The graphics jerk back and fourth in a frenzy, clearly catering to the masses with no attention span. Attention History Channel: we are not all spastic kids that have spent most of our lives playing video games.

Still 4 stars, and still a great show.