Ancient Mysteries - Camelot (A&E DVD Archives)
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Actor: Leonard NimoyBrand: A&E
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 50 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-04-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: A&E Home Video
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- From the sword of Excalibur to the Lady Guinevere, Camelot has been the subject of myths and legends, movies, and best-sellers. Don your sorcerer s robe to join THE HISTORY CHANNELŪ for a cutting-edge investigation that uncovers the secrets of Camelot. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES Rating: NR Age: 733961718454 UPC: 733961718454 Manufacturer No: A
DVD Reviews of Ancient Mysteries - Camelot (A&E DVD Archives)
DVD Review: Probably deserves only one star
Summary: 2 Stars
The advertisements for this DVD suggest that it will give you the true and historical story of Camelot. Alas, it falls far short of that--far, far short. In the end Camelot is a mere fairy tale, not hard history. The disk covers the myths, and they are nothing more. The disk provides some vague commentaries by professors and the like. Leonard Nimoy poses dozens of rhetorical questions in a tone that implies he is actually telling the viewer something of import. But rhetorical questions are used because there just isn't anything else.
There are no reliable documents from the period in which King Arthur lived. Every thing written about him and Camelot came centuries later. There is no documented site of where Camelot stood. Surely no one believes that the Lady of the Lake actually reached up with Excalibur. No one believes in Merlin or Morgan la Fey or that young Arthur pulled the stone out of a rock. No serious person believes in the Easter Bunny either.
The story of Camelot is a pretty story, after all. It is not history. Cinderella wasn't fitted for a glass slipper either, but we suspend our disbelief willingly and enjoy the fiction. Shine too bright a light on it, and the piece dies.
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Description of Ancient Mysteries - Camelot (A&E DVD Archives)
From the sword of Excalibur to the Lady Guinevere, Camelot has been the subject of myths and legends, movies, and best-sellers. Don your sorcerer's robe to join A&E for a cutting-edge investigation that uncovers the secrets of Camelot.Since its inception, the home of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table has been shrouded in mystery, romance, and magic. But did such a place once exist? Was Arthur merely a fictional character or a bona fide historical figure important to the development of British history? In this captivating program, venture with prominent archaeologists and historians all over England and Wales as they search for the legendary site of the Round Table.
From Arthur's supposed burial ground in Glastonbury to historic Tintagel Castle, A&E sheds new light on a timeless place that has been enchanting us for centuries.
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