America's Castles: Grand Plantations
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Artist: Artist Not ProvidedBrand: A and E Home Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 50 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-12-19
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: A&E Home Video
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- A&E's AMERICA'S CASTLE series takes a tour of the American South in this program about the region's great plantations. Travel along the Mississippi River and visit the greatest sugar, cotton, and cane mansions in the area in this documentary rich in history, opulence, and grandeur. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES Rating: NR Age: 733961767407 UPC: 7
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DVD Review: Excellent episode in a great series
Summary: 5 Stars
"Grand Plantations" is an episode of the series "Americas Castles," featuring homes along the Mississippi River. The series uses historical footage to highlight properties built for wealthy industrialists, bankers and plantation owners. The homes are oppulent and ostentatious, a true showplace to display their fortunes before taxes made them unmanageable to operate. In the case of many of the plantation homes, they became vacant after the Civil War decimated the caste system that took away their free labor pool.
Featuring some notable and breathtaking homes both public and private such as "Bon Sejour" (which is nicknamed Oak Alley Plantation due to an alley of 300 year old oak trees planted long before the home), my favorite is Longwood, an octagonal mansion featuring a Byzantine onion dome that is breathtaking on the outside and completely unfinished (except for the basement where the family lived during construction) on the inside. Construction started in 1859 and halted with the outbreak of the Civil War, the family's loss of fortune, and the loss of the patriarch. It is eerie and yet an intriguing glimpse of what might have been.
I love the America's Castles series - and wish that A&E would continue to produce quality programming like this instead of the many tacky reality series that now make up their programming like Family Jewels, Billy the Exterminator, and Storage Wars.
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