America's Midwest as seen through the eyes of a British newsman
After reading the review by JAdams, I think it would be helpful to clarify for others some information about this DVD, which I thoroughly enjoyed.
Though marketed by PBS Home Video (and the packaging says "as seen on Public Television") this 2 hour-20 minute documentary was actually produced in 2011 in England for airing on ITV - the Britrish COMMERCIAL television network. It was a three-part series, with each "episode" lasting about 45 minutes. The opening and the closing credits are repeated for each of the three episodes. The "host" of the series is Sir Trevor McDonald. McDonald's credentials are surprisingly never mentioned either in the film or on the package. A quick search on Wikipedia revealed that Sir Trevor ( he was knighted in 1999) is a Trinidadian-British newsreader (now retired) for ITV and was the first black newsreader in the UK as well as being the most-awarded newscaster in Britain. The 74-year-old McDonald made previous filmed journies to the Caribbean and the...
Not that much of the old history..Just recent history
I have to admit that I am a little disappointed. There is a great deal of history available with the river, but this DVD just touched on that. I wanted to see period information and pictures of riverboats and the people, trade, lifestyle, farming, products, etc of that older period and that just isnt what this movie was about. It was a much more modern story that included Memphis, music, Elvis, Martin Luther King, slavery attitudes, etc. That is OK if that is what you want but the description doesnt really lead you to that emphasis. They could have just as easily named the DVD "the times of Martin Luther King and Elvis" and that title would have worked at least as well as "The mighty Mississippi".
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