Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Time-Life Video & Te
• VHS Release Date: August 29, 1995
• Run Time: 48 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 0783582773
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #229,463 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars strong documentary, August 21, 2009

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Jeffery Mingo (Homewood, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Inca: Secrets of the Ancestors [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Too many documentaries about pre-colonial empires cover the same superficial topics. I found this work refreshing and recommend it for individual viewers as well as classrooms.
The work avoids implying that the Inca were all-powerful. It stated that their reign was slightly a century. It includes that Incas took ideas from people who lived in Peru before them. The work speaks of peoples called the Nazca and Mache too.
Although the work concludes with the decimation of the Inca by Pissarro, this is not the focus of the work as it is with many pre-colonial documentaries. The work spoke about crop circles and terraces and irrigation and many other issues.
Too many documentaries have cheesy reenactments. This work presents modern Inca performing ancient rituals. It admits to taking clips from a Hollywood film called "Royal Hunt of the Sun." The outfits were so colorful and different from modern garb that it is visually pleasing.
Again, thumbs up and well done1