Product Details

• Actors: Bruce Burgess
• Directors: Bruce Burgess
• Format: Full Screen, NTSC
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: Digiview
• DVD Release Date: July 7, 2007
• Run Time: 120 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000UFLPMM
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #80,277 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Product Description
Filmmaker and journalist Brucr Burgess goes deep into the heart of the greatest secret of the 20th century: Area 51 or "Dreamland" in this award-winning documentary. Originally a skeptic, Burgess was converted and now he presents his findings here. Footage of UFO's performing impossible maneuvers under cover of darkness. Multiples aircrafts flying over the base are only the beginning of this account of what goes on in a base that is roughly the size of Switzerland.Learn about the unexplained deaths of Area-51 workers, government funded black projects and the reverse engineering of extraterrestrial technology. Dreamland goes beyonf the perimeter wire, through the fields of motion sensorsm past the armed patrols, jet fighters and attack helicopters to uncover the truth of the greatest secret yet exposed! ** Winner of the E.B.E. Award For "Best UFO Documentary" **

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Fails to impress, September 20, 2007

By	Gregory Lewis "psychedelic shaman" (Marathon, Florida Keys) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Bruce Burgess is a journalist with time to kill and money to spend. When he's not a passenger in a Cessna skirting around Nellis Air Force Base (where Area 51 is located), or testing the legal boundaries with tepid attempts to penetrate Nevada airports, he is flying to Russia, leaning against barbed wire fences. His motto seems to be, "This is as close as we could get."

Now, I don't fault Burgess for trying. However, he shouldn't present his attemps and near-misses as "proof" of UFOs. Certainly, something strange seems to be going on in Area 51, but we can't quite say based on Burgess's evidence that whatever is going on is unearthly.

Before I critique some of Burgess's evidence, let me ask this question: If a flying saucer was discovered in Roswell in 1947, and if the U.S. Air Force has reverse engineered alien technology, why aren't we using it?

- Now, let's look at some of the so-called evidence presented. We get quite a lot of footage of grainy night skies with white dots and circles in the sky.

- We get some day time footage of white dots bouncing up and down in the sky.

- We get one very grainy, unresolved film clip of a thin, horizontal line moving from right to left, quickly, over a desert backdrop.

- We get one computer-enhanced short video clip of something shaped like a horizontal line moving across the sky from left to right.

- We get the "flying canisters".

- The best video clip comes from a news channel covering an anniversary celebration of some type held near Area 51. That clip was the most clear, most puzzling video of all of them in the film.

None of these video clips is very stable and well-focused. None show closeups. A white dot in the sky...so what?

Burgess shows a short vintage film clip of a 1950s era American made flying disk, that barely manages to stay more than two feet in the air. It looks more like a hovercraft. Also, it is still an aerodynamic vehicle, not really an anti-gravity vehicle. Burgess asks mysteriously, "The Air Force scrapped the project 10 years later...they wouldn't say why." Well, for starters, the thing could barely fly. When it did remain airborne, even I could have outrun it. No mention of this albatross making it above the stratosphere, much less into space.

Then there is Robert Lazar, who professes to have worked for a while at Area 51, then claims to have blown the whistle on a "cover up." We briefly get to see a copy of Lazar's W-2 form. His entire taxable income from the U.S. Navy was less than $1,000. How important could he have been? As another strange looking physicist Friedman notes, Lazar's story has the sound of a Walter Mitty.

Then, we hear from a woman who purportedly worked as an air traffic controller at Nellis. She is afraid for her safety, so they filmed her in silhouette. The joke of it is, we can still clearly see her, and her voice isn't altered at all. We see her hair, her double chin, her eyes, her eyebrows. She couldn't have been less mysterious had she walked into the room wearing a teddy from Victoria Secret. If I had ever worked with this woman at any time, I could easily tell you who she was. The filmmakers did very little to disguise her identity; it couldn't have been very important to begin with.

A lot of research obviously went into the production of this piece of journalism. Burgess is eager, intrepid, energetic and curious. He asks good questions. Unfortunately, it's not enough to satisfy me. By no means does he come remotely close to resolving long-standing questions about the existence of extra-terrestrials. He seems to extrapolate proof from evidence that is tenuous, at best, to absurdly specious at worst. I had learned absolutely nothing about aliens or alien craft. What I did learn was that Area 51 is a well-guarded secret, and things fly over it at night. But, we already know that!

I give it three stars for its entertainment value.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars We've heard this all before, October 2, 2007

By	BENJAMIN MILER (Eugene, OR United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Dreamland was a British made documentary (narrated by Bruce Burgess) from 1996 regarding Area 51 in Nevada. At least this DVD is very inexpensive, but if you've watched your share of other UFO documentaries, subjects on Area 51, and listened to Art Bell's radio program through the years, this all sounds familiar. You get to hear interviews from the likes of Stanton Friedman and Bob Lazar. Lazar has long been discredited by many, including Friedman himself (he even does so on this documentary, especially when Friedman stated that Lazar is taking security issues way too lightly), but you get to hear Lazar stating he worked at Groom Lake at the end of the 1980s back-engineering alien technology to test fly flying saucers. Of course there are many who felt his records during his stay in Area 51 and Los Alamos were purposely erased. On a side note, I do admire Stanton Friedman greatly, he is quite credible, and he don't go off on kooky theories to support his belief in UFOs. You also get to hear stories from people who preferred to be anonymous, including this guy who claimed to work with a Grey called J-Rod. It turns out this guy was none other than Bill Uhouse, I've seen plenty of footage of him elsewhere completely non-anonymous talking about his stay at Area 51 and of J-Rod, and you couldn't mistake his silhouette on this documentary. You get plenty of footage of various U.S. military officials talking about Area 51, plus the occasional British point of view, like Nick Pope of the Ministry of Defence (the UK version of the Department of Defense). Bruce Burgess also wants to drive home to point of how tight security is at Area 51 by flying a plane close to the restricted zone and having fighter jets fly close by to chase them off, and driving on a dirt road showing signs that explicitly say, "Use of deadly force authorized". Plus you hear plenty of stories of how many people were threatened in every degree if they didn't keep shut about the base, and of course, every fan of conspiracies will not disappoint here!

I have to say it isn't bad, and it's nice to see the British do their stab at a documentary regarding Area 51, but I really didn't think I came out of this learning much more I hadn't seen on other documentaries or Art Bell. At least it's very inexpensive, so you never felt you overpaid.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Aged but still worth it!, November 28, 2007

By	Christopher Augustin "Aliensthetruth.com" (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I received this DVD from one of my fiancee's coworkers. I haven't watched anything by this filmmaker before, but I truly applaud this work. It was a refreshing take on Area 51, presenting a lot of evidence including video, former employee testimony and photographs that I've never seen before. The DVD may be 10 years old, so some of their predictions as to disclosure occurring in the early 21st century may not have come to fruition, but, it's still a very informative and entertaining DVD.