The Silk Road

I like history films. Very interesting if your looking for something other then boring. This is a good one not just for adults but also for children of school age. It'll give them something to tell their teacher and class mates other then the latest mind bending video games that are senseless.

This dvd is designed for tourists. It takes the viewer on a trip through the key cities along the Silk Road. It's very modern. It shows the cities the way they look today and covers what every tourist would want to know when taking a trip from China to Turkey. If you're looking for a "where to stop on your next tourist trip" dvd, this one will serve you well. It makes use of maps to show you where each city and mountain pass is located, which is nice. Where this dvd fails is in its modern approach. There is only a small portion of historical landscape in this presentation. You spend a lot of time on buses and planes watching people take pictures and stare out windows. He speaks on and on sharing tourist level information, nothing too detailed or analytical. If you want a vacation planner dvd, this is a good buy for you. If you want something more historical and more deeply interesting, this purchase will just let you down.

The shipment and delivery was great. Just as promised. However the actual movie was a great disappointment. It had little educational content and was more a vacation video than a historical document. I truly felt I had wondered into someone vacation film shot by an old movie camera. This is one DVD I will certainly toss.

It was ok but not as polished as PBS specials. I thought it was a PBS special but it was not, confused it with In the Footsteps of Marco Polo.

This video methodically documents the sights along the Silk Road, starting in Xian and ending in Istanbul. The pace of the sightseeing is adjusted appropriately: slower along the more interesting eastern portion, faster at the western end. The visits to the Uzbek cities of Samarkand and Bukhara are especially well done.

My church group is planning a large party with a Marco Polo/Silk Road theme so I picked up this video. It is very interesting and loaded with exciting cultural information that has helped with our party details.

Good views of mountain areas and most of countryside.Part One OK but Part Two turns into a long travelogue for Turkey - OK if you wanna be a tourist. Shows much that narration ignores.Too much mosque coverage.Does not show significant impact of Silk Road very well for ANY of the places visited.Could be much, much better.

I thought I was buying a documentary led by an expert instead this is just a tourist trip and Martin Darrah obviously doesn't have any more knowledge of the silk road than the guides gave him. There are numerous shots of the tourists he traveled with usually of them taking pictures. Any body buying this is wasting money.