Story of India
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Actor: Michael Wood (Writer & Presenter)Director: Jeremy Jeff
Brand: Discovery Channel
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 360 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-03-10
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: PBS
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Movie Reviews of Story of India
Movie Review: Very well done, it's a hit
Summary: 5 Stars
I have not seen the episodes on TV yet as it is still being broad casted. There is an extensive website that accompanies this series at PBS, you can spend hours on it, there is a narrative, video clips that can be played thru out the website, and there are lots and lots of beautiful photographs
at http://www.pbs.org/thestoryofindia/
Mr.Woods did an excellent job in presenting India, you can tell he is passionate about India. However, to be politically correct he held back the Islamic invaders brutality, destruction of beautiful temples that took generations to build; it has been said that some where around 80 million Hindus and many Buddhists were massacred during these invasions in the name of religion, largest genocide in human history. Interestingly when it came to British invasion he was more open, and he was critical of British raj.
One should not consider every thing in this series to be 100% accurate, it would be difficult to be 100% accurate going back tens of thousands of years and especially with such a complex culture, enormous amount of ancient literature, diversity, and with the great depth and breadth in every thing; it would take a lifetime to know India, the real soul of India. The time lines are off, India has a long history; perhaps at least 10,000 years are accountable. India may be the oldest civilization on earth, contrary to the belief that first civilization started in Iraq and the biblical version, especially with the discovery of new sites in India.
Prejudiced English version of Indian ancient history that was written during their occupation of India desperately needs to be revised by unbiased scholars. This show still relies on old English theories that Sanskrit is not native to India and Aryans are foreigners who came to India either as invaders or as immigrants.
It should have considered new theories also that Aryans are natives of Indian subcontinent and surrounding countries, and northern Indians migrated towards Europe thousands of years ago and became present day Europeans, with them they carried language, arts, sciences; this is the reason why the root of Indo European languages is same, probably Sanskrit. To be fair at the opening Mr.Woods does say that all non Africans can trace their descent to early inhabitants of India and indeed it is "Mother India". However, he still relies to some extent on old English Euro centric views. Mr.Woods research should have also considered seriously ancient books of India, there is enormous amount of ancient human history in these books.
I am definitely considering buying this DVD, beautiful photography, well narrated, you feel like you are on another planet not on earth; watching this show is a good way to sample different regions of India, distant pasts, enormous diversity, an eye opener. Don't forget to explore the website, it has a wealth of information especially for students who want to do research papers.
Summary of Story of India
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