The Dark Ages (The History Channel )

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Customer Reviews:

Good For Teachers [Posted on 2008-05-09]
Good Information, as expected, also interesting and engaging for students. This is a great review of the early middle ages leading to the crusades.

A little disappointed... [Posted on 2008-05-26]
As I stated in the title, after watching this documentary I stayed little disappointed. Only good thing about it, that this is only available documentary about early middle ages that exist in English. If not, it would receive two. Anyway the beginning was promising, the first problems began with Justinian and cheap acting. After that things went worse with portrayal of Charlemagne, it was more said about his love affairs than his campaigns and renovation of Europe. Then I left stunned - there wasn't any mention about HRE, but instead some story about one viking warlord, totally uncomparable with other rulers in DA! After all there wasn't any mention about Basil II, one of greatest persons on the end of early medieval time, there were some sad explanations about beginning of crusades, but more child stories then real history. Sad. It started very promising, but last 30 minutes was BIG waste of time.
Three stars.

The Dark Ages [Posted on 2008-06-05]
A very useful review of the times and famous people involved in that, for many, mysterious era of history.

Superficially Skims the Surface of History [Posted on 2008-08-10]
This isn't one of the best of History Channel's documentaries for good reason -- it wasn't a well documented period in world history. Consequently, the series seemed superficial at best and didn't convince me that it accurately portrayed this time period. It seemed to have a limited budget and was a half baked effort. Perhaps the depressing theme made it less than palatable for the production team. Perhaps it was already known most people wouldn't bother to watch it for more than a few minutes because it was a boring expose of a dark period in human history.

There did seem to be a responsible toning down of the twisted dark things of that period as far as torture for fear of sensationalizing these aspects. However, I must say this series was extremely boring and made me want to pick up a book of history rather than watch this drab documentary. It seemed to blame the entire Dark Ages on the fall of the Roman Empire and completely overlooked the harm fanatical religion caused.

Great video! [Posted on 2008-08-20]
A good way to learn what happened during the dark ages. has some personal stories to make it feel more "human." Gives an overall idea of what took place without being too "dry."

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