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The Story of India [Blu-ray] | ![The Story of India [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51oNIXgCG2L._SL160_.jpg) | Director: Jeremy Jeff
Actor: Michael Wood (Writer & Presenter)
Studio: PBS (DIRECT)
Category: DVD
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Rating:  70 reviews
Sales Rank: 24501
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Discs: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Running Time: 360 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 5.3 x 0.4
MPN: PBSBRSND6008B
UPC: 841887010467
EAN: 0841887010467
ASIN: B001P72A1E
Release Date: April 14, 2009
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Studio: Public Media Distribution Release Date: 04/14/2009 Run time: 360 minutes
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 EXCELLENT! August 30, 2010
DT (Florida, USA)
Watched this over the weekend, and it was a first class documentary on the history of this beautiful country. The cinematography is also brilliant.
Would definitely recommend!
Very well done, Worth the money August 29, 2010
Arun P Santhanam
It is worth the money and the effort. I would say one of the best to understand India's history. I also would say Michael has a done very balanced job.
Most Comprehensive History of India Available! August 7, 2010
big talker (n.j.)
I highly recommend this movie! It covers the entire history of India. It is highly entertaining and colorful. I watched it on T.V. when it originally aired. We bought it for my dad and we all watched again. Even my 9 year old enjoyed it. It is a must buy for anyone who is interested in world history!
 Droll with delusions of colonial superiority July 23, 2010
Inayat2012 youtube (USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Here we go. Someone from Britain is here to tell you exactly what India is all about. You hear the same tired British-invented fantasies such as the 'Arian Invasion'. There is so much time wasted here and so many suppositions and outright lies and delusions that if you are not awake you will swallow this one hook, line, and sinker. The author spends much time in the first CD declaring how he has found the recipe for SOMA from the Rig Veda. Friends, nobody knows what SOMA was made of. It was almost certainly a hallucinogen, likely psilocybin mushrooms, and not a stimulant such as the ephedra-like tea that the presenter embarrasingly drinks too much of and gets wired. All the time declaring in his own delusion that he has discovered SOMA. Then he goes into the Harrapan culture and includes Mohenjo-Daro while failing to point out the anomalies of this area including the radiation present in these sites.
Over and over again it is nearly impossible for an outsider, let alone someone who drops into a locale for a few weeks, to pull off the task of being any kind of authority on the culture or it's history. And when a high-brow culture attempts it the results are often churlish if not both comedic and sad.
No, if you are looking for some real information on India there is too much propaganda and elitism here by both the author and the standard archaeological ideologies of linear time and the superiority of the present to get anything here.
What is extremely interesting about India is that it is likely this cradle of all civilization and almost certainly the remains of the last great global civilization on the planet. For those themes check out Proof of Vedic Culture's Global Existence and Human Devolution: A Vedic Alternative to Darwin's Theory.
And if you are looking for [spiritual] documentary style videos about India then you should check out Short Cut To Nirvana. That would be a great place to start.
 Another ethnocentric poorly scripted faux-documentary June 22, 2010
Mike Logan (Austin, TX, USA)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a churlish production full of ethnocentrism, insulting interviewing style, presumptuous conclusions, wandering nonsensical monologuing, absolutist propositions, amateur shooting and terrible cut-scenes. Garbage in HD is still garbage. This video is nothing short of an affront to anthropology at large and science in general. It has permanently soured me on Michael Wood.
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