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Battles That Changed World: Greek-Persian Wars [VHS]

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In the introductory comments, the narrator starts off by saying how this video chronicles the battles between the "civilized" Greeks and the "savage" Persians (Iranians). The same Persians, mind you, that at the time of the battles ruled most of the civilized world under the auspices of the first human rights doctrine in documented history. The program's opening statement speaks volumes about the one-sidedness of the entire video. The producers of this supposedly factual historic program aren't even good enough at their work to be able to effectively PRETEND to be unbiased.

Save your money. If you want to watch fabricated half-truths, buy a standard Hollywood produced gladiator movie. At least they are more entertaining.

Calling persian civilization "savage" where persia was the heaven of minorities more than 2000 years ago, and persian emperors were the ones who wrote THE FIRST "Human Rights" only is a sign of ignorance, lack of knowledge and prejudice of the those who made this video. Its sad how some ignorants try to wite their own version of history. This video does not even worth 5 pennies....

Because of the bad imag of the Iranian government in the western world. They use the time to creat this politically motivated and racist video. I suggest you never buy ths video. full of wrong information and propaganda.

My eighth grade students had difficulty understanding the dialogue. In particular, there was one presenter that I had difficulty understanding even though I teach this topic in World History. I had to strain my ears to make out what he was saying.

I would not have used this particular person to present information orally. I'm not sure whether is was an accent or just a peculiar speech pattern.