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| The Silk Road DVD Collection | 
 enlarge | Studio: Central Park Media
Category: DVD
Buy New: $1,200.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 83620
Format: Box Set, Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 3
Running Time: 630
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.3 x 1.9
ISBN: 1586640054
UPC: 719987200920
EAN: 9781586640057
ASIN: 1586640054
Release Date: July 23, 2002
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand new and factory sealed. Order this authentic release today and receive free upgrade to first class shipping.
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 great September 20, 2008
This is a great documentary series. I did not see the original VHS, and although these DVDs do remind of watching a VHS, it doesn't bother me in the slightest because I am not a videophile. If you like Aurel Stein or are interested in history or geography, then you will find these to be very rewarding and the music sets a nice mood. Definitely check these out.
A brilliant view of Asian landscapes and culture September 20, 2007
This is a truly superb documentary. The landscapes are truly breath taking. It's also a history lesson about a lot of the events that took place here. You get right into Chinese history at the ground level as you travel on one of the most ancient and important trade routes in the world.
Unique resource on the Silk Road September 7, 2007
I saw the comments in these reviews about the alleged poor quality video but went ahead and bought the series anyway. Very glad I did. You have to balance whether to focus on the content or cosmetics; I decided on the content, and the production is more than adequate. I have traveled some parts of the Silk Road that are featured in the film and it seemed to me to be a faithful presentation. But having been there, I can personally attest to the challenge of getting to the remote areas, so this film may be as close as you may ever get to seeing them. I can recommend this dvd series to those looking for an in-depth look at the Silk Road in western China.
 Good, but outdated... May 8, 2007
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
This documentary is good given the time at which it was made, and given the fact it was probably the only one of its kind back then. For those who are interested, I compared this to the Marco Polo Trilogy by Monarex, which I also bought and found the following-
FOOTAGE: The Marco Polo Trilogy has better footage altogether, but the Silk Road Collection does have its fair share of interesting shots too. Definitely not a horse falling 50 feet from a bridge into a turbulent river and somehow surviving unscathed, but interesting. Silk Road Collection pulls a lot of its content from old Chinese television footage and pieces it together, which is fairly similar to how Marco Polo was made. Marco Polo is just a newer version with better camera work and much higher quality video - the government had commissioned a lot of new video archiving ever since the late 90's.
LENGTH: The difference in length between the two is significant (Silk Road Collection being 630 minutes compared to Marco's 270) but unless you have a need for in obscene amount of footage I think that you would be very pleased with the concise, but not too concise, nature of the Monarex trilogy. Not to mention, Monarex has a fourth film about the Silk Road (Secrets of the Silk Road) which is not a part of the Trilogy, but might as well be given its subject matter. So assume if you buy those four together, you have 360 minutes.
CONTENT: The Silk Road Collection is a collection of episodes, each covering its own little topic given the information at hand (which wasn't very much back in the late 70's). The Marco Polo Trilogy and Secrets of the Silk Road are definitely broader in spectrum, which can be both positive and negative. The interesting aspect is that even though they are broader, they still provide more details given many recent discoveries in China since the 70's and 80's, not to mention the release of information from the government itself. So even in its generality, I found that the Marco Polos gave a wide array of new information not found in the Silk Road Collection.
CONCLUSION: The Silk Road Collection is like a full blown Greek Dictionary, where the Marco Polo Trilogy is like a book of Commonly Used Greek Phrases. Personally, I enjoy the Marco Polo version more because I am not looking for the smaller details regarding the Silk Road. I wanted a great overview and got it with the Marco Polos. If you are a professor about to teach a course on the Silk Road, I would recommend BOTH. Watch Marco Polo first, then Silk Road Collection. If you are like me and looking to build your knowledge because you are interested and would like to be further educated on the "Sleeping Giant", Marco Polo all the way.
Marco Polo's Shangri-La
Marco Polo's Silk Road
Marco Polo's Roof of the World
The Long Silk Road March 29, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The DVD set is 410 minutes long. It contains some great film footage taken in the Dunhuang caves. It also tells the very interesting story of Sir Aural Stein, who traced the journey of the monk Xuanzang along the Silk Road in the 7th century and cajoled the monk caretaker of the caves into letting him have many precious scrolls and art pieces to take back to England. The DVD set, however, spends much too much time advertising itself. I would estimate that at least 60 minutes of the 410 minutes consists of self-advertising. It is also, incredibly slow paced. I am a professor and tried to show parts of it in my class and found the students very restless after about 20 minutes.
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