The Sahara: The Forgotten History of the World's Harshest Desert (History Channel)
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Brand: A&EDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 180 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-12-19
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: A&E Home Video
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- At once a vast expanse of mesmerizing desolation and the crucible of human history, the Sahara Desert has been both the battlefield of empires and the haunted wilderness at the margins of the known world for thousands of years. Shot on location, this exhilarating documentary brings to life the Sahara s cruel history and the conflicts that still plague its people. SAHARA recounts the story of ki
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DVD Review: From the History Channel description about this item:
Summary: 5 Stars
A certain mystique lingers in the very name... It is a haunting and hostile arena with a past as captivating as its landscape. In this desert blanketing eleven nations in Northern Africa, nature has crafted a world of mesmerizing desolation. And across its scorching sands, from the Stone Age to the 21st century, humanity has dared to carve history.
Here, 40,000 Persian warriors were swallowed by a titanic sandstorm kings led caravans of 30,000 bearing riches beyond imagining Roman death squads exterminated the citizens of the Empire's most bitter rival a brash American led the Marines on a perilous mission "to the shores of Tripoli" and the misfits of the Foreign Legion forged a legend in last stands and lost causes.
Our cameras explore a land of mirage and myth from a mountain fortress of ancient freedom fighters to a vast stadium filled with gladiators gore to the vibrant chaos of a camel auction to the fabled metropolis of Timbuktu.
Historians chronicle how a devastating climate change turned a lush savanna into the world's harshest desert how a charismatic Saharan priestess led her people in a desperate war of resistance against Arab invaders how slaves from Africa's interior perished during nightmarish marches in the sweltering heat and how the German army's brilliant tactician Erwin Rommel bedeviled British forces in the desert during World War II.
DVD Features:
* Behind-the-Scenes Featurette
* 2 episodes of BIOGRAPHY - Erwin Rommel and Lawrence of Arabia
* Interactive Menus
* Scene Selection
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Description of The Sahara: The Forgotten History of the World's Harshest Desert (History Channel)
At once a vast expanse of mesmerizing desolation and the crucible of human history, the Sahara Desert has been both the battlefield of empires and the haunted wilderness at the margins of the known world for thousands of years.Shot on location, this exhilarating documentary brings to life the Sahara's cruel history and the conflicts that still plague its people. THE SAHARA recounts the story of kings who once led caravans of 30,000 people across the desert, bearing riches beyond imagination. It tells of Roman death squads that exterminated the citizens of the Empire's most bitter rival and how the Foreign Legion crafted a legend out of last stands and lost causes. From the fabled metropolis of Timbuktu to the shores of Tripoli, THE SAHARA is an illuminating exploration of this unforgiving and remote land of myth and mirage.
Also included is a bonus disc that examines the lives of two men--T.E. Lawrence and Erwin Rommel--who shaped the desert's modern history and were themselves forever changed by the Sahara.
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