Product Details

• Actors: Walter Cronkite Remembers
• Directors: n, a
• Format: Box set, Black & White, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 3
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Timeless Media Group
• DVD Release Date: November 20, 2007
• Run Time: 450 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00104AYDS
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #30,878 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

A Remarkable Century! Relive what happened during this last century, as America's most trusted newsman shares his personal eyewitness experiences and insights gained from his front row seat to the 20th Century. Experience the gripping scenes caught by camera and broadcast to the world. Some of the events covered in this award-winning six hour documentary include: The Great Depression, the rise of organized crime, World War I, World War II, The Cold War, the raising of the Iron Curtain, the fall of the Berlin Wall, civil rights, women's rights, the race for space, a man on the moon, a president assassinated, a president resigning. Plus, we learn about a country called Vietnam, missles in October and a place called the Bay of Pigs. This revealing program features never-before broadcast home movies and still photos from the Cronkite family, plus rare historic film, newsreel clips and photos from the CBS News Archives, the Library of Congress, the National Archives, United Press and AP Photo, among dozens of other national, university, state, city and private archives. But good or bad times, we have made it through and one man has been there all along: Walter Cronkite.

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cronkite Rocks!, October 17, 2009

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Jan N Arizona "Jan" (Arizona USA) - See all my reviews

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This is wonderful nostalgia folks. Walter is a great story teller and you get a history lesson to boot. This man had a front seat on what was happening during our lifetime and it's fun to relive with him, like being behind the lines. Great footage mixed in too. Enjoy.

4.0 out of 5 stars Before you use this in classrooms....., July 28, 2011

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Andre M. "brnn64" (Mt. Pleasant, SC United States) - See all my reviews

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I agree that this is a great set. Walter Cronkite, the man who introduced the outside world to many young baby boomers and gen-x'ers who watched him along with our parents in the 60s and 70s, lived through much of the 20th century and tells us about it along with the news films. The film excells when our man stops the action with some well told anecdotes. Among the most interesting are the ones involving a horrific encounter that he ahd his father had with a racist doctor who cruelly assaulted a black delivery boy in Texas as a child, the lady who makes a crank call shortly after JFK's assassination, and his daugther's attempt at hippie rebellion. As a child, I was attracted to Cronkite's storytelling abilities and this is put to VERY good use here. His tales about John F. Kennedy (along with some previously unseen footage of an interview with Kennedy on Vietnam) show a side to Kennedy that is not often seen or discussed these days.

However, I am a history teacher and if you want you use this for your classroom, be warned that Mr. Cronkite covers most of the issues involved rather hastily for students who are not familiar with the depths of the importance of these events. I understand that some other Cronkite videos do a better job with background material. But for Cronkite and history fans, this is very good.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Walter Cronkite was the best, May 9, 2010

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I greatly enjoy this DVD set. It covers a very important time span in the world's history, and is presented excellently.