Product Details

• Actors: Peter Coyote
• Directors: Eli Brown
• Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: PBS
• DVD Release Date: February 19, 2008
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0012M1KW2
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #34,898 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Studio: Pbs Release Date: 04/16/2009

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

266 of 272 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars DVD is NOT a brain training program, it's an infomercial for one., March 6, 2008

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requin (Massachusetts) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Brain Fitness Program (DVD)

I donated to PBS and got the set of Brain Training items. This dvd is just the PBS program all over again. It is NOT a brain training program with exercises you can do, etc. It's talking heads plugging how great their program is. It's marginally interesting on first viewing but I can't see wanting to watch it again. Just watch it on PBS and save your money.

The actual brain program this dvd touts is very expensive and available on the website. It came w/ my donation and it's very well made, but is truly boring, as the other reviewer stated, I dread doing it (and in fact, haven't in a week or more). It's focus is auditory not visual which is ok but it'd be better if it had both. I haven't done it enough to give a thorough review of it or it's benefits.

107 of 111 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The Brain Fitness Program, April 17, 2008

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Kathryn A. Hunter - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Brain Fitness Program (DVD)

After watching the program on PBS, I thought the DVD would have the brain exercises, which it didn't. I was disappointed.

65 of 66 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars intereresting material but title incredibly missleading, April 28, 2008

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David P. Tipton "Industry Reviews" (Sacramento, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Brain Fitness Program (DVD)

The title of the DVD is "Brain Fitness Program" and if you read the back cover it suggests that you are going to get an excercise program designed by "50 leading scientists to help improve your brain" . However when you actually get the dvd it is simply an hour long documantary about recent studies showing that the Brain can be improved. Nowhere on the dvd is any "fitness program" or any "mental excersizes". I am surprised at this being that it was originally a PBS show and yet it comes across as a bit if an hour long promotion or infomercial and by the end you are interested and intrigued and also angry at the lack of the "program" that the title and description seem to promise.

Oddly the only place they refer to an actual program is in the title and back cover. The people in the documentary don't really even refer to it. I did enjoy the documentary but I felt ripped off.