The History Channel Presents The Best of Modern Marvels
by Bruce Nash
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Actor: Harlan Saperstein, Max RaphaelDirector: Bruce Nash
Brand: A and E Home Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 2115 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-05-27
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: A&E Home Video (New REleaset)
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DVD Reviews of The History Channel Presents The Best of Modern Marvels
DVD Review: Lots of death and destruction
Summary: 4 Stars
This is about 35 hours of documentaries from the History Channel's "Modern Marvels" series. Most of the disks have four 45-minute episodes made up of about a half dozen disasters per episode.
The first 4 or 5 disks are mostly death-and-destruction. The disasters range from drilling into a salt dome under a lake (oops!), 600 people dying in fire at the over-crowded Cocoanut Grove nightclub, airplane crashes, bridge collapses, building collapses, dam collapses, mine fires, tanker and paddlewheeler explosions, tower collapses, and...well, you get the idea.
Many of the disasters were a culmination of a series of little errors here and there that finally added up to the big problem, while some were (as one person explains) a "failure of Construction 101" in the case of a parking structure collapse.
Other episodes are more benign "Modern Marvels", such as rubber, distilleries, candy, monumental buildings and bridges, high-tech sex, and toilet tech :-)
The minor negatives include the narrator's delivery which uses too many dramatic pauses so that you don't really...know when he has finished...speaking. Also, there is no episode guide booklet, and the individual DVD cases are a little vague as to the exact contents.
I bought this when it was on one of Amazon's sales, and it worked out to less than three bucks per disk. At the regular going price, it is probably still a good value.
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