Customer Reviews

Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible: Joshua and the Battle of Jericho

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I purchased this dvd along with Jonah and the whale (part of the Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible)very sceptically. I was debating about another Bible series videos which has more actual videos but is much more costly. When I first watched it with my 2 1/2 yr old, I found the animation well done. The actual events in the movie were fairly accurate. Charlton Heston gives a brief synopsis before the video. My daughter loves this video and we plan to purchase more in this series.

You can't go wrong with this when the price is so low. The animation quality is like that typically seen in basic Saturday morning cartoons, which is good enough for kids. What I like is that all the videos in this series give all the important details of the story, rather than giving a shallow, watered-down version as is usually the case in children's stories. These will entertain preschoolers up through junior high and the script is very closely based on the scriptural account. The only reason I didn't give this series a 5 is that each video has a hokey song that could definitely have been left out, but for such a low price and good script, I can overlook that.

We use many of the videos in this series for our "kids club" at church and they are always a HIT! The videos share a complete version of each story in a format that is interesting for all of the children in our group (kindergarten through 8th grade). These videos are a GREAT way to introduce children to many bible stories.

The production is very attractive to children. My 5 and 7 years old have watched the different stories over and over. Before going to school they used to watch useless TV, with this videos, the Bible stories are sinking in and giving us lots of opportunity to talk of the History of the People of God... a great tool for the non-reading ages.
The stories stick to the Bible version, not distorted or invented... It's the Bible illustrated... and it shall never pass!

I have 3 grandchildren from 1 to 3. I put these dvd stories in my car video when we are driving and they can't take their eyes off of them. They love the stories and are amazed. I hear them as I am driving and look in the mirror at them mezmorized. They have cute songs with them too. I am very pleased. I even lent a few to a friend with a 5 year old that loves them too. I have gotten a few more of them and hope to continue to get them all.

I ordered severeal of these to show to my kids. As we read each story I wanted to show them the movie behind it. The kids enjoyed these very much and at a inexpensive cost, it is definitely worth it. It's very engaging and can allow for much interaction with the kids.

Greatest Heroes in an interesting series of animated programs, all include an introduction by Charlton Heston on the story we are about to see. The animation is good quality, full hand drawn 2D cel animation without shortcuts. In the middle of each episode in this series, they usually have a cutaway of another story from the bible, done in computer animation to contrast the two stories.

We bought this story, Daniel and the Lions Den, and the Story of Jonah. Jonah is my favorite, but this was good.
All versions of animated and live action stray from the source material and are not accurate, just like non-biblical movies are not accurate to the book they are based on. It is more of an issue in a biblical story as we all worry about people getting their facts wrong, but it is hard to avoid. Film makers balance what will make a story flow for the viewer, especially kids. In this "Greatest Heroes" version, most of the main characters are very young, perhaps to relate to kids more. But they are appealing characters that draw the kids in. This episode has great moral lessons, and if you have issues about the changes from scripture, always discuss the differences afterwords to your kids as we did. No extras on the DVD, sound and picture quality were good, no problems with playing the disc or the menu. I recommend buying this DVD.

My 6 yr grandson loves this series (except Charleton Heston's intro, which he says is boring)