Discovery Atlas: Italy Revealed [DVD]

It's very well put together. It breaks down every facet of the a few special locations around the world. It's more about social structures of each country than it is geography.

The only part that I was disappointed was was when it was all over. It not only shows the beautiful country of Italy in high definition, Discovery follows several Italians during a pivotal point in their lives. I'm sad to say that Discovery will probably not make another Italy exclusive in HD for quite awhile. I'm infatuated with the Italian culture and lifestyle as well as their geography, landscape, and architecture. The Discovery Atlas series is excellent if you're at all interested in worlds outside of ours.

I wanted to see more of Italy and less of a story line. Race car driving shows what beuatiful part of Rome.????......NONE. I guess it was my fault for not looking at a review.

This documentary covers a number of sites in Italy by picking a human subject in each of the locations, and telling us the story of a slice of life in that individual and its bonding with local culture and history. These narratives run in parallel, we are taken back and forth between the heroes, as their character story lines progress.The main feature on this Blu-Ray disk is compressed more than what I've seen on Blu-Ray titles from other studios. The picture is a little washed out, especially where fast movement is shown. The quality of the camera work is exceptional for the most part; but some of less than stellar footage, with bad lighting and color fringing, was also mixed in.This DVD has extras. But, when I started watching the first one, I immediately noticed that there were some mastering problems, showing bad digital artifacting, most noticeable at scene changes. Fortunately, the main feature does not suffer from this.Overall this is a very interesting work: it takes the concept of a dry TV documentary and adds a lot of warm human touch to it. I wish the Discovery Atlas: Italy Revealed makers would have taken better advantage of features offered by the Blu-Ray format, but this is still a very interesting and great looking film.

Man, watch this DVD on a High-Def TV and you feel like you are really in Italy. They do a nice job of showing the beauty of Italy while showing the day-to-day stories of a couple of actual Italians. The stories keep you captive as they are unique to Italian culture. This is a tremendous disc for educational purposes or just for those that miss being in Italia...I highly recommend!

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Showed this as an introduction to a unit study on Australia to my 5th graders. They were fascinated and enjoyed the entire episode. Loved it!

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