Ancient civilizations
(DVD)

Title from container.

Special features: Disc 1: Bonus program: Faith unconquered: the Roman persecution of Early Christians. Disc 2: Bonus program: Atlantis: in search of a lost continent. Disc 3: Bonus program: Touring Egypt. Disc 4: Bonus program: The Maya: temples, tombs & time. Disc 5: "Colosseum, house of terror" featurette; "Flamma, Gladiator superstar" featurette; "Gladiators of Hollywood" featurette; "Training killers" featurette; "Fighting men of the arena" featurette; fearful facts. Disc 6: Biographies; Cleopatra facts; timeline.

Gladiators: bloodsport of the Colosseum narrator, David Hemmings.

Cleopatra: the first woman of power narrator, Anjelica Huston.

Rome and Pompeii: Imagine being among the bloodthirsty thousands at a gladiator bout in the Colosseum or at the chariot races in Circus Maximus.

Athens and Ancient Greece: Ancient Greece was a civilization like no other in history.

The land of the Pharaohs: Ancient Egypt awakes. Go back 5,000 years to a civilization that could create wondrous structures with the most primitive tools and human hands.

Fall of the Aztec & Maya empires: Computer reconstructions recreate Aztec and Mayan cities as they may have looked 1,000 years ago, just before defeat and decay.

Gladiators: bloodsport of the Colosseum: Contains reenactors, gladiator movie clips, sumptuous footage, with computer-generated tour.

Cleopatra: the first woman of power: Offers an Egyptian perspective, showing the legendary ruler as a brilliant strategist and strong leader.

Not rated.

DVD, region 1; Dolby Digital.