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The Tower

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Koch Vision present "THE TOWER" (2001) (384 mins/Color) (Widescreen/Dolby Digital) --- The rich history of the Tower of London is examined in this eight part show --- The historic building is examined in detail, and CGI technology is used to recreate scenes from the Tower's illustrious past --- Channel Four has taken it upon itself to try to separate the romance from the truth with an eight part documentary called The Tower --- Each of the eight episodes focus on one specific aspect of the construct --- The program breaks the tower down to be examined from every relevant physical and historical angle --- At nearly eight hours in total, it would seem to be thorough, but in many ways the series just touches the tip of the iceberg, but what an iceberg it is!

Koch Vision Entertainment has released this 2001 production in a two DVD set that is well presented visually, with an outstanding narration by Sean Pertwee --- The Tower is a very entertaining primer on the history of this English landmark --- notice the tabloid style of production here, as The Tower is truly an awe-inspiring piece of work for the viewer to soak up --- as sturdy and affecting as The Tower itself --- the true story of Britain's most notorious past and living history of The Tower of London --- is as good as it gets!

SPECIAL FEATURES:
EPISODES:
DISC ONE (1):
1. Fortress
2. Prisoners
3. Treasure House
4. The Tower At War

DISC TWO (2):
5. The Lost Palace
6. Who Goes There?
7. The Bloody Tower
8. Tower Top Brass
9. End Credits

Wonderful eight hours are spent viewing this collection and the subject is truly an interesting one --- a big plus as The Tower may inspire many viewers for a tourist type visit to this historical landmark --- this is an eight hours well spent, until you travel to London for your up close visit.

Great job by Koch Vision --- looking forward to more high quality titles from the BBC Collection film market --- order your copy now from Amazon or Koch Vision where there are plenty of copies available on DVD, stay tuned once again for top notch releases --- where they are experts in releasing long forgotten films and treasures to the collector.

Total Time: 384 mins on DVD ~ Koch Vision KOCV6437 ~ (8/08//2007)

I lived in London for six years and every minute was wonderful! I visited the Tower numerous times. I knew a lot about the Tower, but this DVD exposed much more in-depth than I could have imagined! It goes into stories that most people would never know, nor will have the opportunity to know. It shows ceremonies which have NEVER before been seen by the public. It enters places that are "off limits" to the public. Truly an excellent exploration of the Tower! I cannot recommend it higher!

This 8 part series on the Tower of London originally aired on Channel 4 in the UK. It's incredibly well done, fascinating, and is recommended viewing for anyone interested in military history, architecture, British history and the British monarchy.

This DVD on the Tower of London is great! It's very informative, includes loads of history, and is presented in a very interesting way! I have visited the Tower of London twice, and watched this DVD after my first visit. Knowing so much more about the TOL made me enjoy my second visit so much more!

This DVD chronicles the history of the Tower of London. It's done in a very interesting way and caught my attention from the beginning. My children and grandchildren have watched it also, and have the same opinion as I. I highly recommend it to any audience.

We were planning a trip to London, and the Tower of London was certainly near the top of the list of places to visit. We found this DVD while searching the web, but couldn't find it in any store, so we ordered it hoping we would get it before going to London, but we didn't and had to watch it when we got back.

Naturally we learned many of the things on the DVD when we visited the Tower (which was fantastic by the way), but there were many more things on the DVD that we didn't know. The behind the scenes, after hours things that happen at the Tower on the DVD were very interesting, and the dramatizations make the historical stories entertaining.

If you are at all interested in the Tower of London, or English history, I highly recommend this DVD.

I wanted to know more about the famous Tower of London and these cds are great.

Too bad a one star rating is required. It deserves zero stars. I bought the set and had to return it. (NO CCs as advertised by Amazon.com) It is a shame such a otherwise good work could have been ruined by the terrible sound. Mushy mouth narration punctuated incessantly by drums, horns and many other useless noises too numerous and wierd to describe. At one point there was something a child described as a giant dragon burp. First behead the the narrator and get someone that can enunciate, (at the very least insist he finish his porridge before recording), include CCs and/or subtitiles(Amazon advertised CCs) and reissue the DVDs.I would REALLY like to HEAR and see them all.

If you're interested in the Tower of London specifically, or just British history in general, this is a really good program.

It gives a very good explanation of the workings of the Tower today and also gives some interesting stories of what's happened in the Tower in the past. I've been to the Tower of London and taken the tour guided by a yeoman warder, and there are stories in this series that I hadn't heard before.

I enjoyed it very much!

My husband and I have been fortunate enough to have visited the Tower twice, and were fascinated by it's history. We thought we knew alot about the Tower but after seeing this, we realized how we had just scratched the surface. This is very well done, beautifully filmed and reinacted. It is never boring or "too filled" with facts. There is a wonderful contempory presentation of a gentlemen preparing to become a Yeoman Warder and move into the Tower as a residence that was very interesting. We have really enjoyed this.