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How the States Got Their Shapes: Season 1

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Brian Unger (Actor), Half Yard Productions (Director) Rated:

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When the founding fathers drew the first map of America, they confronted many of the same challenges that unite and divide us today. HOW THE STATES GOT THEIR SHAPES explores how our borders evolved--and continue to change--in response to religion, transportation, communication, politics, culture clashes and even Mother Nature. This is no textbook-style documentary series. Local experts and everyday folks lead host Brian Unger, a journalist and former Daily Show correspondent, to insights about some of America s most baffling questions. How are flying fish threatening to re-draw the shape of Illinois? What does the use of cell phones by Pennsylvania s Amish have to do with the shape of their state? How is the phrase sold down the river linked to the shape of what might be our 51st state? Why did the invention of air conditioning change how America picks its Presidents? Unger uncovers the answers, hidden in our map.

BONUS FEATURES: Feature-length HISTORY Special How The States Got Their Shapes

DISC 1: A River Runs Through It / The Great Plains, Trains, & Automobiles / Force of Nature / State of Rebellion

DISC 2: Living on the Edge / Use it Or Lose It / Church and States / A Boom With A View

DISC 3: Culture Clash / Mouthing Off

DISC 4: Bonus Special: How the States Got Their Shapes

Special features

Feature-length HISTORY Special How The States Got Their Shapes

DISC 1: A River Runs Through It / The Great Plains, Trains, & Automobiles / Force of Nature / State of Rebellion

DISC 2: Living on the Edge / Use it Or Lose It / Church and States / A Boom With A View

DISC 3: Culture Clash / Mouthing Off

DISC 4: Bonus Special: How the States Got Their Shapes

Product details

Actors: Brian Unger
Directors: Half Yard Productions
Format: Box set, Color, NTSC
Language: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Number of discs: 4
Rated:
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Studio: A&E Entertainment
DVD Release Date: November 1, 2011
Run Time: 420 minutes
Average Customer Review: 331 customer reviews
ASIN: B005ELVCDY
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,031 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
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Kristy Stinnette

Very Entertaining & Informative!

July 21, 2016

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Loved the first Season of this show, great, entertaining host with facts that are interesting and easy to understand. The show has a great pace to it as well, nothing feels drawn out or boring about it. Did not like the 2nd season at all, it wad done more like a Game Show with people competing over quick facts. Was hard to follow and doesn't show you as much different parts of the country. Same host, but playef out so differently that I was very dissapointed with it.

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pleased purchaser

Love season one, hate season two

April 16, 2017

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I have bought SEVERAL copies of this to give away and a few to have on hand. LOVE LOVE LOVE!!! (*Warning though, did NOT love season two. At All.)

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Sandy

We absolutely LOVE this series

September 12, 2016

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All I can say is WOW, these episodes are SOOOO interesting. I don't care how much
you think you know about the history of our states, there is plenty for everyone to learn!
My teenagers still choose watching one of these episodes over a Netflix movie, and we
have owned these for a couple of years now. We absolutely LOVE this series.

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Mike

The interesting facts that you don't learn in school.

August 12, 2012

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This review is by "The Wife of Mike":
We love this show because it is entertaining, educational and funny. I'm not somebody who is interested in history or would ever think to watch the history channel but I was at a friend's house and this show was on TV. They happened to be covering my home state and I was hooked. I told my Husband about the show (he is from a different state) and we decided to order season one DVD set. We enjoy watching the show and especially when they interview random people (sort of like Jay Leno's "Jay walking"). Of course they put the people on who give the most ridiculous answers but that adds to the humor. Brian Unger does a great job keeping History interesting. I hope that they continue into more seasons!

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G-dawg

Entertaining learning...EXCELLENT!!

October 22, 2017

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A very excellent series! Filmed well and Brian Unger is pleasant enough without being sappy. A likeable host, interesting locations, and quality presentation. Very entertaining and I've learned some fascinating things about our states.

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David W. Skinner

The first few episodes were great but half way through the first season it lost ...

July 23, 2015

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Interesting but very disappointing. The first few episodes were great but half way through the first season it lost its way. It presented cultural and historic information about states and regions of our country, but very little information about state shapes. Many episodes had NO INFORMATION AT ALL about how the states got their shapes!!! The second season went even further off track with quiz segments. Information about state shapes became almost nonexistent. The cultural and historic information was interesting enough to keep me watching but the title of the series is extremely misleading.

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Great Show!!

January 5, 2017

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Great fun, interesting, educational show. It's fun, and entertaining, while teaching me new things. So, often, you have programs, that are educational, but, soooooo boring. Highly recommend this show, to everyone. People of all ages, will learn, and enjoy this program.

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e.chase

Great show

November 17, 2016

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I love this show. It's very informative, there's a lot of information crammed into each show. But it's not rushed, it's got the perfect balance of information, humor, and fun. Brian Unger, the host is perfect. I like that Mark Stein ( he wrote the book the show is based on) is featured as well.

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