Product Details

• Directors: Elliott Halpern, Simcha Jacobovici
• Producers: Ed Barreveld
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: A&E Home Video
• VHS Release Date: February 27, 2001
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000050XZY
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #294,144 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bible Prophesy unfolds under the nose of civilization, January 3, 2002

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J. Bennett (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Quest For The Lost Tribes [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is a fascinating film that I ordered from A&E after catching a portion of it on their classroom series. I have never ordered a video from television before but I had to have it to see the begining and review what I had all ready seen.

Not only is the material and it's implications staggering but they are presented in a compeling format. If Indiana Jones had made a documentary...it would have looked like this. Producer Simcha Jacobovici is charismatic as the narrator but more importantly he asks questions that carefully lead you through the reasoning that proves his research to be one of the most important finds in civilization. When we discover that the lost tribes of Israel have all been living in the ways of their fore fathers for nearly 3,000 years we see that the characters who will fullfill the ancient prophesies of the bible have been carefully kept waiting in the wings....there is no way that this could be possible except divine intervention.

From the fundamentalist muslim guide who, with tears in his eyes says: "Then you are my brother" in reply to discovering the reporter of the film is a jew in Muslim territory, to the unveiling of the most ancient continuous civilization of the world as the group of ancestral priests who continue their practices waiting to usher in the activities of the new temple of the Messianic era, you will be amazed that the ancient book of the bible is not a myth but a mystery unfolding revelation to us today.

If you have any interest in religion, history or the meaning of life you might find proof here that will change your life.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating!, September 22, 2002

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J. Weinberg (Brooklyn - the 4th largest city in America) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Quest For The Lost Tribes [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is a well researched and nicely produced documentary. Due to time limitations, and its broad subject, it lacks some scholarly depth. I could have done without the sensationalistic "end of days" stuff and the spooky music - at times it was reminiscent of the old "In Search Of" show with Leonard Nimoy. Nevertheless, the scholarship seems solid and the conclusions range from the merely interesting to the truly amazing (and maybe a little disconcerting).

Definitely worth a viewing.

28 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jewish Lost Tribes were never lost, June 16, 2008

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HIRAM "The Widow's Son" - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Quest For The Lost Tribes (DVD)

Simcha Jacobovici, a brilliant, sandpapery, pushy film documentarist, went out in the late 1980's to find the Lost Tribes of Israel. He was the man to do it: he was instrumental in reducing the number of the Lost from ten to nine, by documenting the "plight" of Beta Israel, the Ethiopian Jews. Thanks to Jacobovici, the entirety of the Tribe was taken to Israel.

Here, Jacobovici takes us deftly and expertly from one location to another, a real-life Indiana Jones, questing not for artifacts... but real people. We find him interviewing Taliban organizers back in the day when no one knew who they were. In this film they claim they are of Jewish descent. We find Jacobovici chasing around Afghanistan, looking at Buddhist stone tablets written in Aramaic. We see him chatting with all manner of people, all over the world, who somehow know they are, not Jews, but Israelites.

We see people we never knew existed, and we thrill to the narrative of their voyages of self-discovery. They are Jews, and there is even an Indiana Jones-like rabbi, Eliyahu Avichail, right out there with Jacobovici, assisting these lost tribes to return to Judaism. Several of the groups, originally filmed in their home countries such as Burma and India, are later filmed living happily in Israel.

The only annoying tendency is Jacobovici's excessive presence and narration-- jobs he can easily give to others. It is also distracting to move from his adventures to ridiculously sloppy cuts of various lectures he is giving on the subject in different places. (In one such shot, Eli Wiesel is in the audience listening intently to Jacobovici talk about Jewish prophecy.)

Anyone interested in Jewish culture, prophecy, anthropology or just plain fun documentaries: GET THIS.