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starring: Christopher Columbus See Larger Image List Price: $24.95 Our Price: $19.99 You Save: $4.96 (20%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: $7.59 Third Party New Price: $7.84 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 9780767081825 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC ISBN: 076708182X Label: A&E Home Video Manufacturer: A&E Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: A&E Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: July 26, 2005 Running Time: 50 minutes Sales Rank: 26552 Studio: A&E Home Video Related Items: Conquest of America (History Channel) Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of the Mayflower Biography: Benjamin Franklin - Citizen of the World Magnificent Voyage of Christopher Columbus Biography - Thomas A. Edison: Father of Invention see more Editorial Review: Description: His explorations opened up the New World to Europe, but the determined explorer died a broken man, stripped of his rightful glory, titles and money. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Columbus: The explorer reviewed My school has very little on explorers and nothing current on Columbus. I was delighted with the video. AE Biography videos are informative, and interesting to 8th graders. I will use this every year when I teach exploration.Thank you for making these educational videos available and I appreciate how quickly the video arrived. Rating: - Very good survey in under an hour Balanced story of Christopher Columbus and his times. Every video I've seen in the A&E Biography series is made by people who genuinely liked and/or admired the subject of the video. That's true here. He had many virtues, but there is no attempt to sugar-coat the vices. The facts are stated. This is not a comprehensive video on the life of Columbus. The 50-minute video can't devote even a whole minute to each of the 55 years Columbus lived. So the director picks and chooses what ... Read More Rating: - Columbus Interviews with author were a little sketchy. No emphasis on religious motives of columbus. No maps or dates, for example, how long did it take. No mention of the fact that Columbus had Marco Polos book with him. Very brief mention of what the Portugesse were doing and next to nothing about the spice trade. Room for improvement. Rating: - Columbus the man - neither myth nor fiend Columbus has long been honored for discovering the New World, but in recent years he has been rather viciously attacked for his treatment of the Indians he came into contact with. It's nothing new for Columbus, who in his own life was at one time proclaimed a hero but then left to die in disgrace and misery. The real Columbus almost surely lies between these two extremes. He was in many ways a man of his times - albeit a mighty persistent, self-confident one. The traditional version of Columbus' journey ... Read More Browse for similar items by category: Documentary - Genres - DVD - Video - General Documentary - Genres - DVD - Video - Biography Television - Genres - DVD - Video - General A&E Home Video - Television - Genres - DVD - Video - All A&E Titles Biography - A&E Home Video - Television - Genres - DVD - Video - All Titles