Product Details

• Actors: Hermann
• Directors: Eric Schmidt
• Format: 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: KULTUR VIDEO
• DVD Release Date: January 27, 2009
• Run Time: 209 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001KL3H1W
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #46,762 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

The four-part series The Germanic Tribes shows the rise of the tribes of the North; developing from a primitive culture on the fringe of Europe into the heirs of the Roman Empire. For a long time the view of the Germanic people of many peoples was distorted by the Germanic cult of the 19th century and the Nazi dictatorship. Due to new methods and discoveries, research is now able to present a more accurate picture of the Germanic tribes. Many clichés about the barbarians of the North have to be discarded as myths

The linchpin of Germanic history is the conflict with the Roman Empire. Since the age of Caesar this Roman-Germanic conflict was characterized not only by fierce battles but also by phases of co-existence and cooperation. The Germans dug the grave of the Roman Empire, but they were also the preservers of the Roman legacy.

The series breathes new life into the little known world of the Germanic tribes. We see how they lived, fought, and worshipped their gods. Intricate 3D animation shows us how they built their settlements, buried their kings, vanquished their enemies. Roman cities such as ancient Cologne, home of the Romanophile Germans, and the Roman limes, the border to free Germania, are also reconstructed through magnificent computer graphics. The Germanic Tribes portrays the protagonists of an epoch of formative influence for Europe whose legacy is still with us.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

88 of 93 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Series on Little-known History, July 31, 2009

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G. Burris (United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Germanic Tribes: The Complete Four Hour Saga (DVD)

It is sad that the other reviewers do not see the value of this series. There is such little material about these early tribes because they did not have a written history. We have to rely on Romans like Tacitus to give us an account. Not to mention that the culture borrowed heavily from the Romans and the Greeks, etc. They didn't live in a separate world and they constantly intermingled. This is an excellent series with a solid foundation in recent research and archaeology.

38 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb presentation of Germanic-Roman contact, March 5, 2010

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Chapel Hill "chapelhill1978" (Chapel Hill, NC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Germanic Tribes: The Complete Four Hour Saga (DVD)

This miniseries manages to give an excellent introduction to the state of archeological and historical scholarship on the contact between Germanic and Roman cultures. The authors present the viewer with a comprehensive picture of how the Germanic tribes might have perceived themselves and how they were perceived by those they came in contact with. This series is relevant for anyone who is interested at all in how the late ancient/ early medieval contact zones between peoples shaped the political, cultural and linguistic histories and literatures of a multicultural Europe.

43 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great History, October 31, 2009

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L. Chaplya "Krik" (NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Germanic Tribes: The Complete Four Hour Saga (DVD)

I enjoyed this series. The Germanic Tribes keeps to a standard of providing evidence for the facts stated, and the videos of the archeological sites are fantastic. I would recommend this to anyone interested in German history or Classics.