Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Paladin Press
• VHS Release Date: January 1, 2001
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005A1UM
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #560,770 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Must" viewing for students of the sword & sword fighting., May 4, 2001

By 

Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Myth Of The Sword [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Hank Reinhardt has spent a lifetime studying the history, development, and use of the sword from antiquity down to modern times. The Myth Of The Sword is an impressive and visual, 90-minute tour-de-force video presentation that combines Reinhardt's expert commentary with live-action demonstrations, beautiful examples of the various kinds and categories of swords, concomitant develop of sword-related armor, and the manufactured properties of specific types of swords ranging from Japanese katanas to European broadswords, sabers, and rapiers. Of special interest is Reinhardt's debunking of Hollywood induced misinformation about how swords were really used in combat. The Myth Of The Sword is "must" viewing for students of the sword, members of such organizations as the Society For Creative Anachronism, authors of historical novels with sword play scenarios, as well as the script writers, producers, directors, and actors of films with sword fight or fencing sequences.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Hank the Talking Head; not much more, April 9, 2002

By 

Bryan Bleil (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Myth Of The Sword [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I'm mostly disappointed with this video. A good 80% of the video time is simply a close-up of Hank Reinhardt's face, as he talks to a point a few feet to the side of the camera. Another 10% is made up of pans across still images from historical drawings. The remaining video time is actual live action. What Hank is saying is usually interesting... but considering how little sword use they actually shot, I'm left wondering: Why didn't he just write a book with this material?

5.0 out of 5 stars An impressive and visual, 90-minute tour-de-force video, April 28, 2001

By 

Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Myth Of The Sword [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Hank Reinhardt has spent a lifetime studying the history, development, and use of the sword from antiquity down to modern times. The Myth Of The Sword is an impressive and visual, 90-minute tour-de-force video presentation that combines Reinhardt's expert commentary with live-action demonstrations, beautiful examples of the various kinds and categories of swords, concomitant develop of sword-related armor, and the manufactured properties of specific types of swords ranging from Japanese katanas to European broadswords, sabers, and rapiers. Of special interest is Reinhardt's debunking of Hollywood induced misinformation about how swords were really used in combat. The Myth Of The Sword is "must" viewing for students of the sword, members of such organizations as the Society For Creative Anachronism, authors of historical novels with sword play scenarios, as well as the script writers, producers, directors, and actors of films with sword fight or fencing sequences.