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• Format: Color, Dolby, 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: Grizzly Adams Prod
• DVD Release Date: March 22, 2005
• Run Time: 120 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0007GP7C8
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #178,622 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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BREAKING THE DA VINCI CODE - DVD Movie

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Reveals the Truth, January 9, 2007

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Charles O. Davis - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Breaking the Da Vinci Code: Solves the 2000 Year Old Mystery (DVD)

This documentary shows why The Da Vinci Code is a work of fiction. It does not take away from the entertainment value of The Da Vince Code. It simply sheds light on the various lines of reasoning used to come to the conclusions reached in The Da Vince Code. Watching this DVD will educate the viewer in the history of the spread of early Christianity.

63 of 90 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A bit one sided, July 3, 2005

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Zen (sherman oaks, ca United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Breaking the Da Vinci Code: Solves the 2000 Year Old Mystery (DVD)

Overall this is an interesting DVD. The main problem I had with this DVD was that after a while you start to notice that it is quite a bit one sided. It is ALL quite against Dan Brown's book. You start to feel like behind the scenes of this DVD it is put together by very conservative Christians. Although I personally do not believe the notion that Jesus was married to Mary or for that matter I do not take Dan Brown's book too seriously as a true source of historical/religious wisdom--at all, I still found this DVD to be quite a bit one sided and conservative. No one on this program even goes into the interesting topic of at least questioning the standard Christian dogmas that have been purported over the centuries. No one on this program even brings up the fascinating notion of exploring a Jesus beyond the conservative views----at least to explore the idea. NO, this program mainly pushes how perfect the bible is and how if it's not in the scriptures it's not reliable.
Those people that clearly are against the Da Vinci code book will enjoy this program most. Those that are in the grey areas or conspiracy theory types will not like this DVD much.
I think it's fair to say that there are a lot of people like myself who do not really believe in the theories of Da Vinci Code yet find it fascinating because it at least makes one go beyond just being spoon feed religion. I was hoping this DVD would have a bit of that flavor of a well rounded discussion but it did not. All the experts they had on their panel were clearly against all the ideas in Da Vinci code and that was pretty much the tone of the whole DVD.
You make up your mind for yourself if that is a balanced discussion.

28 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Facts of Biblical History fairly represented, May 6, 2006

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K. Hiebert "Student of History" (Bay Area, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Breaking the Da Vinci Code: Solves the 2000 Year Old Mystery (DVD)

'Breaking the Da Vinci Code' does an excellent job of presenting the legitimate facts of Biblical History. Dan Brown's book, which he admits draws significantly from a previous book, 'Holy Blood, Holy Grail', has numerous flagrant historical flaws in it, which this video brings forth. Of course, Mr. Brown's supporters will argue that this is a 'novel', but the point is Mr. Brown represents his novel as being based on 'fact'. This legitimately opens him up to an honest, scholarly review of his 'facts'. As 'Breaking the Da Vinci Code' demonstrates, Mr. Browns 'facts' are essentially fiction. The core of the 'Holy Blood, Holy Grail' thesis, which Mr. Brown makes the core of his book (i.e., the claimed marriage and offspring of Jesus and Mary Magadalene, the connection between the Knights Templar and the alleged 'Priory of Sion', the claimed authenticity of the 'Dossier Secret' in the French National Library) are all exposed as either a fraud or fictional speculations.
As added support to the information provided by 'Breaking the Da Vinci Code', CBS's 60 Minutes recently did their own investigation of the claims of Mr. Brown (which aired just recently on April 30th) and came to the same conclusions reached by this video, that there is no support for a so-called 'Priory of Sion' beyond the demonstrably fraudulent 'Dossier Secret' (which are forgeries created by Pierre Plantard, a French anti-semitic nationalist, and some of his circle), that there is no historical evidence to support a supposed marriage between Mary Magadalene and Jesus (or any other women for that matter), and that Mr. Brown's claims (as well as those of the writers of 'Holy Blood, Holy Grail') are merely a regurgitation of the old Gnostic psuedopigraphia which have rightly and properly been excluded from the Biblical canon for very sound and legitimate historical reasons.
It should also be pointed out that this is not merely a 'conservative' viewpoint. Both liberal and conservative theologians, history scholars, and art historians have almost unanimously 'debunked' and rejected Mr. Brown's claims of 'fact' advanced in his book. Legitimate historians are concerned about real evidence, not mere speculation in the manner advanced by Mr. Brown.
I can also state that my own research as a former Bible Seminary student and historical researcher has also confirmed the same conclusions reached by 60 Minutes and 'Breaking the Da Vinci Code'. If someone is going to attempt to overturn 2000 years of established, documented, and corroborated history, which has been substantiated and affirmed by scholars down through the centuries, he's going to have to come up with a lot more evidence than 'The Da Vinci Code' and 'Holy Blood, Holy Grail' have produced.