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As Good as Documentaries Get!, December 4, 1999
This review is from: The Century-America's Time (Boxed Set) [VHS] (VHS Tape)
This work is simply splendid. Viewing these videos in their chronological order will refresh your memory and cement your knowledge of the important events of your century. Jennings is marvelous: his voice is warm, intimate and authoritative. The writing is near poetry in places, as it weaves the events into a unified narrative. The pictures are superb in both content and technical quality. The original music score is wonderful, making the work highly dramatic and cinematic in places. A documentary commemorating a century of history should be great...and this one is. The next time someone tells you history is boring or that TV only delivers drivel to the masses, point them to this landmark work.
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
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Video Survey of U.S. History, 20th Century, August 11, 2002
This review is from: The Century-America's Time (Boxed Set) [VHS] (VHS Tape)
This video, The Century, America's Time, hosted by ABC 's Peter Jennings, served me well as a U.S. History high school teacher. The reason I liked it so much was because it brought to life in short, 10 minute summaries, key events of the twentieth century. Hosted by Peter Jennings, it had a much more contemporary feel to it than similar historical summaries. The narration was snappier and held the attention of my students better than let's say a PBS or other History channel type visual documentary. It supplement's any Twentieth Century U.S. History course because it capture's the emotional context that a text-book cannot reveal. I found my students had a much better grasp of the times when I supplemented the text with these visual snapshots of key events during the century. Because key events are broken down into 10-20 minute segments, it lends itself to the attention span of classroom students and instruction very well. Most documentaries go on for 45 minutes straight on one topic. This was extremely well done. If I had only 1 video series to pick from to capture the flavor of the twentieth century, this is the one I would buy!
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This is the best way to learn history!, May 9, 1999
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This review is from: The Century-America's Time (Boxed Set) [VHS] (VHS Tape)
Not only was I fascinated by the stories of each generation...I now have a gift that I know will be watched over and over again, for my parents, who have lived through most of this century (87 years)! Not an easy task!
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