The Ultimate Guide To The Presidents [DVD]

Good documentary series with alot of historical facts.

Purchased for husband who watched part of series on history channel. Now can easily finish series when he wants to watch it. Fast delivery and no damage to pkg

"I Barrack Obama, George W. Bush, William Jefferson Clinton, George Bush, Ronald Wilson Reagan, Richard Millhouse Nixon, Lyndon Baines Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Dwight D. Einsenhower, Harry S. Truman, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Chester Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, George Washington do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. So help me God."This is a great historical & detailed review of the story of the American Presidency. I enjoyed this special, with good interviews one on one with expert historians, covering the post Revolutionary America with the era of the Founders, to John Quincy Adams and the Jacksonian era, the battle and annexation of Texas, all the way up to Lincoln and the horrors of the Civil War, then onto the post Civil War American into the guilded & industrial age of the Robber Barons and the settling of the wild old west. They discuss the administration of Teddy Roosevelt well, with his legal Supreme Court battles to break the monopolies, and his expansion of the US Navy and expeditionary actions beyond America's borders, including the vital construction of the Panama Canal.Later we have the trials of the brutality that defined the First World War, the social and economic suffering of the Great Depression, the era of FDR, then onto the violent struggle against Hitler's Fascism in WW2 that directly lead to the long ideological and military battle with Communism during the long era of the Cold War finally ending with Ronald Reagan & his good work to peacefully bring about the end of the Cold War. Then the special features the modern problems and lighting fast news media driven world of the modern Presidency (featuring Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, & Obama) , showing the good times with the bad, plus the hardships of handling the modern White House and the massive world economy with the phenomena of global outsourcing, national debt, massive recessions, political and religious ideological moral struggles here at home domestically, controlling violent crime, immigration difficulties, dealing with a Post Cold War world where Terrorists, oligarchs, and small dictatorships desperately try to obtain weapons of mass destruction to inflict harm on the innocent in the post 9-11-2001 world. The US Presidency is the most awesome, amazing, exciting, glamourous, profound, and powerful political and military institution ever conceived by man. The men and their teams who are fortunate enough to get elected by "We the People" into the office hold the weight and fate of the most of the Earth on their hands. Their character, principle, and charisma drive the executive office and steer the nation on a course toward either total failure, a mediocre stagnant malaise of grey, or onward to absolute triumphant victory for the "Free World". It is all up to "We the People" with the people we elect into Congress, and that very leader we the folks select to administer the most remarkable of offices (the Oval one), and lead the greatest nation this world has ever known, the United States of America.

While I haven’t watched the entire set yet, what I’ve viewed was very interesting, informative, and well produced. I stumped my history guru friend with some Andrew Jackson facts yesterday. - Now that’s something you don’t hear everyday!Bullwinkle J. Moose loves “The Ultimate Guide to the Presidents”!

I was hoping for a lot more. It was shy on information.

I homeschool grandkids and I bought this series as a refresher course for presidents. It doesn't include Trump, but is still an excellent source of information. I enjoy the commenters better in this series than in others I have used. The others tend to use actors, sport characters and business along with history buffs. I prefer this one which relies only on professional commenters. My homeschool class spent 2 hours a week watching and enjoyed it. How often do you have teen boys asking for a history lesson? This series was well worth the money. Thank you.

My favorite documentaries are a little slower-paced and deeper, but this is a very glossy, appealing job of presenting main ideas and some very fine film clips. The pacing is sort of restless, but all linked to the voice-overs well. The special effects help to bring a vividness and motion to scenes long past (the effect creates a sort of 3D simulated panning across and around things made of composited stills, with some color enhancement). The speakers tend to be respected historians, though the style (if key history descriptions) is more "sound bite." This might play well on an introductory level to the young and to the cliche attention-hopping millennials, but I enjoy it alright, and I know the underlying history. If one had to have a single source on these subjects within this short time-span, one could do a lot worse than this.

Great content, physical condition brand new and factory-wrapped. No literature is provided to list Chapters or segment run-times, but that information can be found quickly through an online search engine.First disc and 1st chapter of disc 2 are all available on YouTube for free (#ultimateguidetotheprewidents). The remainder of disc 2 contains 3 chapters not available anywhere online immediately accessible on the big subscription-based streaming sites (1920-2013) and the History Channel’s website doesn’t mention anything past 1921 for this series...Disc 3 contains extra features touching on various themes such as Presidential personas, slavery, crises, and scandals.

Brilliant.My son[who is ten] and myself watch this documentry time and time again.

Provided an insight not usually found in the text books I studied in school ... brings history down to the level it should be looked at.