The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, Volume Two - The War Years
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Actor: Sean Patrick FlaneryBrand: PARAMOUNT HOME VIDEO
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled)
Format: Box set, Color, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 726 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-12-18
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Paramount
DVD Reviews of The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, Volume Two - The War Years
DVD Review: outstanding
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved this series as a kid! This version isn't quite what I watched as a teen; George Lucas had them re-cut for the DVD and they run in chronological order now. The series as aired had bits with "contemporary Indy-- AKA early 90s Indy" who is no longer present in this version. Each disk has an approximately 1 1/2 hour story cut from two episodes of the series as aired.
Nevertheless this is an outstanding series. Excellent production values and compelling storytelling make this series very watchable. Each disk also contains several documentaries about the subject of the story and the historical figures in it. I was genuinely fascinated by most of these; this is an era I didn't really know all that much about.
DVD Review: Vivid selections of WWI
Summary: 5 Stars
I just enjoy the series. It is one I turn to when television programs don't interest me. You can choose your favorites or just watch the entire DVD.DVD Review: DVD collection
Summary: 4 Stars
DVD provides entertainment and historical information, making them a great gift. It arrived in an acceptable time frame also.DVD Review: Pluses and Minuses
Summary: 4 Stars
Most noted plus and minus for Volume Two of this collection is about the same as it was for Volume One - no poignant Old Indy bookend for each episode, and the astonishingly generous and thorough - if somewhat pedestrian collection of accompanying documentaries. By pedestrian, meaning very much conventional historical wisdom about the various figures, incidents and campaigns. This makes them, as intended, an excellent introduction for people who have heretofore heard little or nothing about a whole gallery of interesting characters. Basically, what you are getting is two TV series (for the price of two, unfortunately) - a marvelously improbable series of World War One adventures centering on the character of Henry "Indiana" Jones, serving under a nom du guerre as Henri d'France in the Belgian forces - and a good set of History Channel type documentaries.
The marvelously improbably part of the drama series is that our hero manages to be everywhere that something relevant was happening - as a soldier on the Western Front, in Africa and the Middle East and slinking about as a spy practically everywhere else. He also got to have a brief affair with Mata Hari, but this is young Indiana Jones so he did have the energy. He also had the energy and the luck to escape from a German POW camp at least twice. Locations, costuming and sets are impeccable; there were no corners cut in production, and no lack of ingenuity on the part of the writers in setting up the story so that he would encounter everyone from V.I. Lenin, war poets Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon, Charles de Gaulle and the Red Baron - and the entire Lafayette Escadrille. This might have the makings of a history buffs' drinking game - knock back one every time Indiana Jones meets up with a historical figure. I don't think any but the most hard-headed would make it past disc 5.
DVD Review: Young Indiana Jones, Vol. 2
Summary: 5 Stars
The Young Indiana Jones series produced by George Lucas provides wonderful history lessons for young people as it gives background on a little studied period of world history, ie, from about 1900 through the early 1920's. Not only are the movies entertaining and educational, but the accompanying documentaries provide valuable factual information about the time period. For example, there are documentaries on T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), Giacomo Puccini, Henri Petain, Charles DeGaulle, etc. One caveat, however, is that some of the movies do contain some violent scenes as well as some scenes with sexual content. If parents do a good job of monitoring for these scenes, the material in the movies and documentaries will provide great history lessons for young adults. I highly recommend these DVD collections.
Description of The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, Volume Two - The War Years
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles was based on the Indiana Jones series of films. The series follows the Indiana Jones character (as a young boy and as a young man) as he was growing up and experiencing his early adventures, where he gets into trouble, learns life lessons and encounters various historical figures along the way. The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles was filmed on location all over the world ~ including England, Russia, Spain, Czechoslovakia, Kenya, France, India, China, Austria, Egypt, the United States, Morocco, Ireland, Italy, Africa, Turkey, Greece and Thailand.George Lucas' The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Volume Two, The War Years continues the extraordinary narrative, historical, and production achievements found in Volume One. As with the first series, each feature-length program (re-editing material from the original, one-hour broadcasts to smooth out the chronology of Jones' experiences as a child and young man) resembles a theatrical experience more than episodic television. Each drama is remarkably rich in layered detail, shedding light on major events, figures, and ideas from a pivotal era in world history. Where Volume One largely focused on the early childhood of Indiana Jones as he traveled the world in the company of his parents, meeting the likes of Picasso, Tolstoy, Freud, and T.E. Lawrence, Volume Two is exclusively concerned with Jones' experiences during World War I. This time, Jones (Sean Patrick Flanery, introduced in the final episodes of Volume One) is serving in the infantry of the Belgian army under an assumed name, eventually rising in rank from corporal to captain and becoming a spy after paying extensive, nightmarish dues on the war's front line in Europe. The series captures some of the horror of World War I's most infamous battles, directly inserting Jones into the thick of the action at Verdun, the Somme, the Middle East, and elsewhere. In time, Jones is repeatedly recruited to become a secret agent, going undercover in Austria to help forge a separate peace between the last Habsburg emperor and the allies, and playing a crucial part in the survival of British and Australian forces crossing a merciless desert. Along the way, Indy befriends Bolsheviks preparing for the Russian Revolution, has a romance with Mata Hari, attempts a prison break with Charles de Gaulle, and has a wonderful encounter with Albert Schweitzer. As with Volume One, this follow-up box set includes an astonishing number of excellent special features, primarily dynamic documentaries about many of the real-life people and incidents introduced in the stories. These extras provide much depth and analysis without being at all dry; a creative history teacher would do well to incorporate them (and, for that matter, the shows themselves) in a class about the 20th century. --Tom Keogh
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