Product Details

• Actors: Mohammad Ismail Sloan
• Directors: Sam Sloan
• Producers: Sam Sloan
• Format: NTSC
• Region: All Regions
• Studio: CreateSpace
• DVD Release Date: September 29, 2009
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000CPJHFM
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #375,197 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Uncle Sam's Slide Show and Lecture, January 19, 2010

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Judi Kaufman "jmkaufman" (Harrisburg, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Crisis in Afghanistan with Sam Sloan (DVD)

I am a college instructor and I asked my institution to purchase this DVD in order to provide background information for my students prior to reading the novel, "The Kite Runner." I had envisioned something like a history channel documentary with video footage accompanying a well-organized presentation of the history of Afghanistan. That is not what this video is - imagine Sam Sloan bringing his slide projector with his slides of everything from maps, to famous government officials and family members - to your living room. He stands in front of the slide screen and lectures about Afghanistan in a fairly random manner, accompanied by his slides. "Uncle" Sam also brought one song on CD, the one song is set to replay over and over and over and over and over - one song, forever!! In all fairness, the video is not presented as a historical documentary, and it is not one. It is a chat about Afghanistan and "Uncle" Sam's experiences there - rather enjoyable, in fact (except for the song which repeats into infinity,) if taken in that way... but students who are looking for historical information on and an orientation to the political environment of Afghanistan will be totally confused until their brain shuts down and they begin texting each other.