Product Details

• Actors: Erik Thompson
• Directors: Douglas J. Cohen
• Format: Box set, 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: 4
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: A&E HOME VIDEO
• DVD Release Date: May 26, 2009
• Run Time: 700 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001L0KHA6
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,386 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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• This is item 3 in The Universe Series.

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Immerse yourself in more spectacular space exploration with SEASON THREE of this epic series from HISTORY. A virtual collision of astronomy and history, each enlightening episode utilizes strikingly realistic computer recreations and animations to provide unprecedented insight into the mysteries of our universe, and beyond.

From bizarre clouds to the hypothetical Planet X, from space disasters to space sex and the possibility of terrifying cosmic collisions, experience space in a whole new way - not through a telescope or textbook, but firsthand. With THE UNIVERSE, you'll feel like you've traveled to the edge of the unknown.

THE UNIVERSE: THE COMPLETE SEASON THREE includes all 12 original episodes on 4 DVDs:

11/11/08 Deep Space Disasters
11/18/08 Parallel Universes
11/25/08 Light Speed
12/2/08 Sex in Space
12/9/08 Alien Faces
12/16/08 Deadly Comets and Meteors
12/23/08 Living In Space
1/6/09 Stopping Armageddon
1/13/09 Another Earth
1/27/09 Strangest Things
tbd/09 Cosmic Phenomena
tbd/09 Edge of Space

BONUS FEATURES: Additional Footage

Stills from The Universe-The Complete Third Season (Click for larger image)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It just keeps getting better!, July 28, 2009

By	Josh Yates (Phenix City, AL) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Very informative, educational, interesting, and fun! The special effects and great narrative performance makes this show my favorite. This is by far the best TV series I have ever seen. I have watch every episode multiple times. Another great thing about this show is that it includes some of the greatest physicist of today, such as Michio Kaku. I highly recommended anybody who is even slightest interested in the final frontier to add this DVD set to their collection.

I especially love the episode "Parallel Universes". For all open minded people, this is an episode you must see.

16 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars No words to describe how wonderful is this Documentary, January 31, 2009

By	Elton Celio De Oliveira "Elton" (Sao Paulo, Brazil) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

A wonderfull set of DVD that take us to a journey of reality about the Universe we live.
In my opinion the only negative point of ths product is that it has no subtittle, and a serie like this must have subtittles in various languages, including Portuguese.
All the schools in the world have to have this DVDs to exib it to the fellows.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars disappointing season, November 6, 2009

By	Marvin Taylor (USA) - See all my reviews

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Ok. As a scientist, I found the first 2 seasons to be quite entertaining even though the material is fairly basic (it's not meant to be for astrophysics geeks). The show has always had alot of bang and big and bold photos, very colorful, very creative. Then there's the third season... come on. Sex in space? what a crappy episode. There is so much that we know (and don't know) about space that they can go on and on and talk about the Universe for the next 30 years...but instead they got this snoozer lame episode about popping out kids in space with very little fact and mostly just opinions and speculation. They didn't even really bother getting into the details regarding the animal research that has been done. I had to shut it off...couldn't finish watching that stupid episode. And the episode which talks about neutrinos....didn't even properly define it. Good job, professors. If you are really trying to educate the public about space and you want to talk about particles, you should really go back to the basics of physics and talk about each particle and their importance...then talk about neutrinos. Instead, we get a smoke-and-mirrors light show which is supposed to represent a bunch of neutrinos whizzing around.

I figure that the people watching Season 3 of The Universe have probably seen the first two seasons or if not, after watching episodes from this season, should be motivated to watch 1 and 2. Maybe the people making the show should make it a little more sophisticated and elevate the level of complexity of the show...but instead, the show tries to oversimply abstract complex theories instead of teaching its viewers anything concrete; The Universe, our Heisenberg Multiverse of 11 dimensions, is just a cheap light show in Season 3.

In case you are wondering. 5 stars for season 1. 4 stars for season 2.