Product Details

• Actors: Hugh Quarshie
• Format: Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: English (DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0)
• Subtitles: 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: BBC Worldwide
• DVD Release Date: August 24, 2010
• Run Time: 150 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B003ONR38C
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,295 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • #32 in Movies & TV > Blu-ray > Special Interests

Editorial Reviews

The producers of Life, Galapagos and Yellowstone bring us The Great Rift. Visible from space, Africa’s Great Rift Valley runs four thousand miles from the Red Sea to the mouth of the Zambezi – a diverse landscape of erupting volcanoes, forest-clad mountains, spectacular valleys, rich grasslands, vast lakes and mighty rivers. Home to the greatest concentration of animals on earth – lions, crocodiles, elephants, hippos and flocks of flamingos – and pastoralists such as the Maasi – this is a land of constant geographical turmoil. It will take you to another world – a world of exotic extremes, where the forces of nature have shaped the landscape and so created a hotbed of evolution. It is the very cradle of mankind.

Customer Reviews

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104 of 104 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another gem from the BBC Natural History Unit, August 26, 2010

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This review is from: The Great Rift: Africa's Greatest Story [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)

If you've seen any of the other HD nature documentaries from BBC (Planet Earth, Life, Nature's Most Amazing Events, etc), you already know what to expect from this series. There is nothing groundbreaking here, just more of the amazing, high-quality, exciting nautre scenes that, frankly, only BBC knows how to deliver. While I wish David Attenborough had narrated the series, simply because no one else has that kind of gravitas, Hugh Quarshie's narration is decent and takes nothing away from the presentation.

East Africa had already been pretty well documented before this series. I have also traveled there. And still, in shot after shot, this series showed me things I had never before seen.

If you're a fan of high-quality, serious, beautiful nature documentaries, pick this up right away.

24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful video, October 8, 2010

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Ron (Carmichael, ca United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Great Rift: Africa's Greatest Story [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)

Another outstanding documentary with a combination of great photography and good information about the geological and ecological development of this area of Africa. Highly recommended.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow -- amazing images, good story, April 22, 2011

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David Smith "smithdav" (Penn Valley, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Great Rift: Africa's Greatest Story [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)

This DVD has the best video images I have ever seen. I viewed this on a 53" Sony Hi Def TV. The images were solid, the color intense and many scenes appeared nearly three dimensional. Over and over again we replayed a section just because of the quality of the image on the screen.