Frozen World: The Story of the Ice Age

four seperate ice age related documentaries in one.
This isn't the story of the ice age. That title is very misleading. That would be a great show to be done though. This instead is ice age related, first we get two excellent episodes of megadisasters. one about supervolcanoes and one about how quickly a ice age can develop. (in as little as ten years!) and the fact that we went through a miniice age from 1350-1800 that really caused alot of death and devastation. particularily in it's early part with a third at least of the worlds population dying. the other two are about cavemen during the iceage and the period when the ice age ended in 10,000 b.c. So you get alot of information here and the most important part is about how the rising temperature of the earth can cause the ocean currents to collapse and throw us into a ice age again. ( a minione and that was quite brutal enough!) The caveman one was my least favorite as it supposes our early ancestors wiped out the neanderthal humans. In fact there wasn't hardly any of either...

Average
I was hoping that the video was more of a docu-drama than this was presented. The video was average in presentation, dry, repetitive, and disaster graphics below average. The Clash of the Cavement was horrible. Journey to 10,000 B.C. was better and the others were okay in presentation. Each of the four episodes have about 25-35 minutes of actual content. I admit the discussion about the Ice Age was informative but the continual repetition of the content was distracting. I guess this is standard History Channel fare.

Frozen World: The Story of the Ice Age
If you are interested in mankind's populating the world, this is a wonderful DVD to add to your collection. The History Channel does a fine job of educating the public with their fine products.

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