Product Details

• Format: 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: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Smithsonian Networks
• DVD Release Date: July 21, 2009
• Run Time: 47 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002BI4JM4
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #200,326 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Guyana is home to one of the world's most legendary creatures, one that rarely encounters man, yet has gained the reputation of being a merciless killer ... even of humans. But how much is fact and how much fiction? Located in jungles near water, an anaconda can grow as  big around as a grown man. These enormous snakes kill their prey by coiling their powerful bodies around their victims and squeezing until they suffocate or are crushed to death. It then unhinges its jaw to swallow the victim whole ... a scenario that has been portrayed in more than one Hollywood B-movie, helping giving rise to the snake's formidable reputation.

Join Smithsonian Networks and a crew of wildlife photographers and biologists as they set out to discover the legendary monster, the biggest anaconda in the world.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars Anaconda DVD gripping, December 26, 2011

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Joseph E. Miller - See all my reviews
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This Smithsonian Networks made for tv video has a lot of info, history and myth about these giant snakes. Taking you deep into the Amazon basin and Yanos of Guyana and filming on land and underwater hunt for the largest of these massive snakes, with the help of renouned experts in the field. The interviews with eye witness accounts of the indiginous natives, make this a compelling and riviting documentery. My only dissapointment was the unanswered question of weather the reward offered ( in the 1930s ) of $50,000 by New Yorks, Museum of Natural History, for anyone bringing back a snake of over 30 feet in length was ever collected. Many stories of snakes up to 100 feet in length, but no proof. Still many of these anacondas filmed in this documentary are massive and certainly reach over 20' in length with a couple approaching the legendary 30' mark. A very engaging DVD. Well worth the $5.23 including shipping, that I paid. Joe In San Francisco

1.0 out of 5 stars boring, July 5, 2011

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what I expect when I buy a nature documentary is to watch nature itself, with no special effects or human acting
and there is no subtitles. I am almost deaf and I need subtitles

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3.0 out of 5 stars Mediocre, March 19, 2010

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Simon Swegles (Lansing, Michigan United States) - See all my reviews
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This was an OK show. Light on action shots of the animals in question, heavy on shots of the crew preparing for shots. When they did show the animals, the photography was not engrossing. It felt like many of the "natural" shots were setups, like a scripted reality series. I was entertained, but am very glad I found this for ~$5. If it had been much more, I would have been disappointed.