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The Story of India : Complete BBC Series


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starring: Michael Wood

 : The Story of India : Complete BBC Series

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Audience Rating: Exempt
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5014503237523
Format: PAL
Label: 2 Entertain Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: 2 Entertain Video
Region Code: 2
Release Date: November 05, 2007
Studio: 2 Entertain Video




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Customer Reviews
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - As thick as...
Wood is true to his name, in thick-honeyed tones he lays on a pc monologue totally devoid of insight. Wood is as thick as the proverbial two short planks of...



Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - rambling enthusiasm
Smiling like a flower, without regard for maya, he spins the tale of great men from their artifacts and ruins, while also displaying profound regard for the sacred in whatever form and through whosoever manifest its effect upon their lives. The visuals often are irrelevant to the script and too much street distraction of people and traffic swirls in time lapse distract from substance. The current rise of technological India and middle class is completely absent and a significant deficiency from an ... Read More



Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Contradicting its own words loof times but overall a good documentry.
Not seen many documentries covering such a good detail fo history.
But over all a interseting documentry. Full of information, The Buddha episode is covered very beautifully.

But it oftens contradicts its own words,

1) In first 15 min, the acient clan of Brahmins are reciting the hymns in Sanskrit in South India and then the Brahmins from Aryan race are reciting the Sanskrit hymns in Varansi and also impashis of Aryan Invasion theory.

2) Aryans came from ... Read More



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - A Story Worth Watching
The Story of India is an informative and visually beautiful document from one of the UK's most popular historians. Comprised of six one-hour chapters, it is not the whole story of India, nor is it perhaps the best story of India. But anyone coming to this series wanting to learn something about the world's most ancient culture will find many treasures here.

Michael Wood attempts to cover the major events and trends of Indian history beginning with the migration of Africans into India 40,000 ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Outstanding piece of work
Michael Woods 'creation' of this series is a fastastic combination of a journalist and a thinker. The topics that cover this series, the chronological continuity,the cinematography, the eye for detial are all simply brilliant. The unfathomable passion this man has for India is evident through out-the way he mingles with people of such contrasting cultures, his quest for the truth, his search for the greatness of this country its history and its people and his unending quest to communicate this to his audience ... Read More




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