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Empire Series

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Empires: Queen Victoria's Empire DVD

This series offers an engaging portrait of the Queen who ruled over one-fifth of the world's population for 64 years, as well as influential figures who shaped British imperialism: Gladstone, Disraeli, Livingstone, Rhodes, and Prince Albert. Personal accounts, re-enactments, and cinematography from imperial outposts recount the dramatic clash of personalities and cultures during Victoria's remarkable reign. Donald Sutherland narrates.

Product Details

Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2001
Length: 240 minutes on 1 Disc
Closed Captioned: Yes
Subtitles: No
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Empires: Queen Victoria's Empire DVD

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Empires Collection: Great Religions DVD 5PK

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Empires Collection: Great Religions DVD 5PK

Empires Collection: Great Religions is a compilation of five outstanding stories of some of histories greatest religions and religious figures. This set includes Islam: Empire of Faith, Martin Luther, Kingdom of David; The Saga of the Israelites, Peter & Paul; The Making of the Christian Revolution and Holy Warriors.

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Color: No
Stereo: No
Production Year: 2005
Closed Captioned: No
Subtitles: No
Number of Programs: 5
Country Of Origin : United States

Empires: Holy Warriors DVD

The epic legend of King Richard the Lionhearted and his struggle to save Christendom's holiest city, Jerusalem, from its Muslim conqueror Saladin is explored in this drama-documentary using original Muslim and Christian sources, as well as interviews with experts from both the East and West. Filmed in the Middle East, it tells the story that defined religious conflict for centuries and transformed Richard and Saladin into legends.

Product Details

Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2005
Length: 120 minutes on 1 Disc
Closed Captioned: Yes
Subtitles: No
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Empires: Holy Warriors DVD

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Empires Collection: The Dynasties DVD 5PK

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Empires Collection: The Dynasties DVD 5PK

Within the history of civilization are great eras of struggle, triumph, and loss. These periods are reflective of the best and worst of humanity. Empires is a ground breaking series of historical films which present the people and passions that have changed the world. Empires Collection: The Dynasties is a compilation of five outstanding stories of some of histories greatest dynasties.

Product Details

Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2005
Length: 883 minutes on 5 Discs
Closed Captioned: Yes
Subtitles: No
Number of Programs: 5
Country Of Origin : United States

Empires: Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire DVD

Japan blossomed into its Renaissance at approximately the same time as Europe. Unlike the West, it flourished not through conquest and exploration, but by fierce and defiant isolation. And the man at the heart of this empire was Tokugawa Ieyasu, a warlord who ruled with absolute control. This period is explored through myriad voices-- the Shogun, the Samurai, the Geisha, the poet, the peasant and the Westerner who glimpsed into this secret world.

Product Details

Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2004
Length: 180 minutes on 1 Disc
Rating: TV-PG
Closed Captioned: Yes
Subtitles: No
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Empires: Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire DVD

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Empires: The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance DVD

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Empires: The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance DVD

From a base in 15th-century Florence, the Medici family used charm, patronage, duplicity, and ruthlessness to amass wealth and power. The Medicis also ignited Western history's most important cultural and artistic revolution, the Renaissance, but doomed their own ordered world. This epic drama in the courts, cathedrals, and palaces of Europe traces a family's powerful ambition and a continent's tortured struggle to emerge from the Dark Ages.

Product Details

Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2004
Length: 240 minutes on 1 Disc
Closed Captioned: Yes
Subtitles: No
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Empires: The Roman Empire in the First Century DVD

Two thousand years ago, at the dawn of the first century, the ancient world was ruled by Rome. Through the experiences, memories and writings of the people who lived it, this series tells the story of that time -- the emperors and slaves, poets and plebeians, who wrested order from chaos, built the most cosmopolitan society the world had ever seen and shaped the Roman empire in the first century A.D.

Product Details

Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2001
Length: 219 minutes on 1 Disc
Closed Captioned: Yes
Subtitles: No
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Empires: The Roman Empire in the First Century DVD

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Empires: Islam: Empire of Faith DVD & Book Paperback Save $5

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Empires: Islam: Empire of Faith DVD & Book Paperback Save $5

THE OTTOMANS reveals the dramatic transformation of Islam after the Mongol invasion. Nomads enlisted to fight the Mongols stake their own claims and become known as Ottomans, pushing the Islamic world westward into Christian territories. Suleyman the Magnificent shapes the Ottomans into a military powerhouse; his wealthy, sophisticated empire threatens European power centers and Persian Safavids, before falling victim to enemies from within.

Product Details

Color: No
Stereo: No
Length: 180 minutes on 1 disc
Closed Captioned: No
Subtitles: No
Number of Programs: 3
Country Of Origin : United States

Empires: Egypt's Golden Empire DVD

In 1570 B.C., Rome was a marsh, the Acropolis an empty rock, but Egypt was 1,000 years old. The pyramid-builders were gone, yet Egypt still awaited its New Kingdom, an empire forged by conquest and remembered for eons. EGYPT'S GOLDEN EMPIRE comes to life through letters and records evoking the passion and riches of a time when Egypt was the center of the known world, its Pharaohs called gods, and great cities, temples and tombs built.

Product Details

Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2002
Length: 180 minutes on 1 Disc
Closed Captioned: Yes
Subtitles: No
Number of Programs: 3
Country Of Origin : United States

Empires: Egypt's Golden Empire DVD

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Empires: Napoleon DVD

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Empires: Napoleon DVD

"The Summit of Greatness" recounts Napoleon's brilliant conquest of most of Europe, including a legendary victory at Austerlitz. To sustain his rule, he must keep fighting, but invading Spain reaches too far. "The End" describes Napoleon's downfall, including the invasion of Russia and his final battles. First exiled to Elba, he escapes to face final defeat at Waterloo.

Product Details

Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2000
Length: 216 minutes on 1 Disc
Closed Captioned: Yes
Subtitles: No
Number of Programs: 4
Country Of Origin : United States

Empires: Martin Luther DVD

Martin Luther's 95 theses gained popularity with the common people, but the Church excommunicated him. Courageously, he asked Germany's secular rulers to stand up to Rome. Saxony's Frederick the Wise protected him, convincing Holy Roman Emperor Charles to meet him. On his way to the Diet of Worms, he met cheering crowds. Luther refused to recant; a split Diet set him free. In Wartburg, he translated the Bible into German.

Product Details

Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2002
Length: 120 minutes on 1 Disc
Closed Captioned: Yes
Subtitles: No
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Empires: Martin Luther DVD

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Empires: Peter & Paul and the Christian Revolution DVD An Empires Special

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Empires: Peter & Paul and the Christian Revolution DVD An Empires Special

Early Christianity faced powerful obstacles: Roman might and the power politics of ancient Jerusalem. Yet the new faith transcended origins in a Roman province to absorb the capital of the empire. Using the words of Paul and other ancient writers, interviews with contemporary scholars, and dramatic re-enactments, the film explores how two men weathered crippling disagreements and political persecution to lead a resilient religious movement.

Product Details

Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2003
Length: 120 minutes on 1 Disc
Closed Captioned: Yes
Subtitles: No
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Empires: The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization DVD

Dramatic storytelling and state-of-the-art computer animation re-create Classical Greece of the 4th and 5th centuries, B.C, founder of modern science, politics, warfare, philosophy, and source of breathtaking art and architecture. This dazzling production charts the rise, triumph, and eventual decline of the world's first democracy. Witness it all through the eyes of Pericles, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.