Product Details

• Format: NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Pangea
• DVD Release Date: November 19, 2002
• Run Time: 150 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B00008G85F
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #416,768 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful images set to powerful music, December 25, 2005

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R. Evans (Montgomery AL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ralph Vaughan Williams' Sinfonia Antarctica (DVD)

Although this film is not (unfortunately) a film of a concert performance of this great symphony, it is appealing in its own right. Vaughan Williams's stunning music provides the backdrop to equally stunning images of the southernmost continent. The pictures -- of land, sea, sky, and wildlife in and out of the water -- are compelling, and the documentary shots of failed expeditions to the South Pole are grim reminders that this is an unforgiving place. One wishes that someone would film the great Vaughan Williams symphonies in the ways that works of other great composers have been filmed; the techniques used to film excerpts from some of the Shostakovich symphonies in the documentary film "Shostakovich Against Stalin" (for instance) could be put to very effective in filming the best of Vaughan Williams' works. Surely the BBC should consider undertaking such a project; surely there would be a market for such films. In the meantime, Andre Previn's film dealing with the Shostakovich Fifth does offer the third movement from the Vaughan Williams Fifth, but that brief taste only leaves one hungering for more VW on video.