Product Details

• Actors: Narrated By Jeffrey Wright
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, 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: 2
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: A&E Home Video
• DVD Release Date: August 30, 2005
• Run Time: 180 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000A0GXMY
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #49,445 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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CONQUEST OF AMERICA - DVD Movie

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77 of 79 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Relatively engaging history of European conquest!, November 7, 2005

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N. Thomas "LibraryFiend" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Conquest of America (History Channel) (DVD)

I know plenty of individuals will be enraged upon viewing "Conquest of America", as it depicts Europeans tromping through the New World, slaughtering innocent indigenous persons and their cultures. I agree that much of what occurred in the process of European colonization of the Americas was lamentable.

Still, all socio-political naysaying aside, this documentary did indeed inform me of many aspects of the history of America's being settled. For instance, I'd not been aware that hapless Henry Hudson was a victim of mutiny who perished on a tiny forzen boat somewhere in the massive Canadian bay that is nmed in his honor. Or that the present state of Florida had been such a bone of contention between the French and Spanish Empires.

The re-enactments are very well-done and believable. One gets a real feel for the historical settings, intrigues, and characters, rather than the sense that one sits there thinking "Okay, now I'm watching a historical recreation".

Overall, well done and relatively engaging and informational. It would be a very good reasource particularly for junior and senior high school history teachers, I should think, who are instructing on the history of the United States and exploration.

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The conquerors of America will conquer your heart., July 16, 2007

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Rhett D. Sorensen "Old Keen Eye" (Provo, Ut USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Conquest of America (History Channel) (DVD)

Ok maybe not. I really enjoyed 3 of the 4 episodes of this series. The only one I really did not care for was the conquest of the South-West. Not that it wasn't well done, because it was. It was just a piece of the history of the South-West that does not seem to have had all that much impact. The South-East (Spanish vs French) was a pretty entertaining and informative episode. I also very much enjoyed the North-West episode and the Russians encroachment on what the Spanish believed was rightfully theirs. Hudson and the North-East was also enjoyable. I learned more about Hudson in that 45 minutes than all the history classes I have ever taken combined. Altogether I found them all well made, and all but one of them was well worth watching and owning. I learned a lot from all of them, combine that with top notch production and great dramatizations and we have a winner. Nice solid piece to add to your history channel collection.

28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Conquest of America, June 11, 2008

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M. Micks "history teacher" (Minneapolis, MN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Conquest of America (History Channel) (DVD)

Good, but not comprehensive. There was nothing about Columbus, Cortez, Pizarro, etc. It only covered Coronado, Hudson, St Augustine/Fort Caroline, and the Russians in the NW.