Product Details

• Actors: Isabella Rossellini
• Directors: Mike Lynch
• Format: Color, Dolby, Widescreen
• 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: Image Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: January 30, 2007
• Run Time: 102 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000JRYP1Y
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #123,087 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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DISCOVERY ATLAS:ITALY REVEALED - Blu-Ray Movie

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A look at the lives of some interesting Italians, April 2, 2008

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D. Marshall "Shoptilyoudrop" (Montreal, Canada Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Discovery Atlas: Italy Revealed (DVD)

Do not buy this video if you wish to be shown the Colesseum, etc. etc. - all of the tourist attractions, it is not that type of video. It is more about capturing the mood of the country, some of its background, and the prospects for the future.
You will meet a man purusing his dream of becoming a gondolier in Venice; a volunteer rescue worker in the Italian Alps; we follow a member of the Missoni family preparing for their new collection; a horse jockey who hopes to participate in Siena's palio (a 90 second horserace which brings the neighbourhoods of Siena to a fever-pitch); a young Roman girl who hopes to be the country's first femae race car driver; and a young Sicilian man who is a free diver, hoping to become professional. Along the way we are told about the state of the Catholic church in modern Italy, and other vignettes of information about the country that we learn while we look in on these people's lives. And of course, Isabella Rosselini's voice is wonderful, I love it.

So you will not be told where to go and what to see in this DVD. But you will have a better sense of the country and its people, what makes them tick, where they came from, where they are going. For me that was fascinating. I did find the scene of Siena's palio a bit upsetting actually (when they say it is a dangerous race they mean it). In my mind all I could think was 'is it really worth it to risk your life for a horse race?' but this is something that is obviously very important to them.

I did not make this purchase expecting to get a tourist's tour of Italy. I borrowed it from the library first. Then I bought it knowing what I was getting. It is a DVD that I will enjoy having in my collection.

19 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed, January 1, 2008

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Raymond A. Cronin - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Discovery Atlas: Italy Revealed [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)

I only wish that more time was devoted to the natural beauty of Italy and its cities,towns and natural coutryside, particulary in the north, as opposed to horse racing, auto racing etc.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful photography, November 24, 2007

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Andrew Lynn (Upstate) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Discovery Atlas: Italy Revealed [HD DVD] (HD DVD)

This is worth watching in HD for the stunning photography alone.

Contrary to some reviews, there is nothing wrong with the disc. Certain HD-DVD players have firmware bugs which have been fixed in newer versions, that keep them from showing several titles including this one. Connect your HD-DVD player to the internet and run the update utility under Settings.