Product Details

• Actors: Bob Brier, Christopher Frayling, V.I. Lenin, Jack Perkins, Joseph Stalin
• Producers: Derek Towers, Roy Davies
• Format: NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: BBC Warner
• DVD Release Date: May 23, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000EQ5TDS
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #286,010 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Egypt & King Tut: Face of Tutankhamun" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding, March 19, 2006

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I. J. K. Dunbar "Baron Dunbar" (Sydney (cultural desert) (need to get back to the UK)) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: King Tut - The Face of Tutankhamun (DVD)

This series was originally broadcast in the UK in the early/mid 1990s. It is superbly constructed, beautifully narrated and is easily the best ever programme in the Egyptology genre. Frayling is brilliant at building the suspense - almost as if he was narrating a whodunnit novel. I have been trying to get a copy for years as my original video was lost. Brilliant. An absolute must.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best, December 5, 2006

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Andrew Wright (Sydney Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: King Tut - The Face of Tutankhamun (DVD)

Christopher Frayling's BBC documentary from the early nineties is one of the better pieces of television history on ancient Egypt (second only, in my opinion, to John Romer's 1984 effort 'Ancient Lives'- when will that one be commercially released?). Frayling's penchant for cultural history works tremedously well here as he surveys both the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb itself and the significance of the discovery in the western cultural developments during the twentieth century. From an in-depth analysis of Howard Carter's work to interviews with various assorted Californian hippies with mummy fixations, this is a fascinating, well-researched and very entertaining look at the whole Tut phenomenon. It is a relief also to report that unlike many an American edition the series has not been hacked around with inexpert and insensitive editing. Highly recommended.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars In depth, but with one glaring error, July 23, 2006

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EgyptObsessed - See all my reviews

This review is from: King Tut - The Face of Tutankhamun (DVD)

Overall I enjoyed this and think it's a nice addition to an Egypt-phile's DVD collection, however, there was one error so glaring in the 3rd episode of disc one that I HAD to comment, and I am stil boggling that it wasn't caught in post production, let alone when it happened. When the host is discussing the theory of "radioactive" Mummies, the mummy shown is *NOT* Tutankhamun, but the mummy believed to be Seti 1. You can look at a photo earlier in the show and see Tut, and see that the two are not even remotely similar. Other then this, as I said, an enjoyable, in depth documentary, worth the money.