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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Gary Foreman |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 12 September, 2004 |
| MANUFACTURER: | A&E Home Video |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Documentary, Movie |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 2 |
| UPC: | 733961718034 |
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Customer Reviews of The History Channel Presents The War of 1812
Who's History? Neither side in the 1812-1815 war emerged victorious, although you might think one side did from watching this documentary. The US came close to defeat several times and it was only the occasional victory (Fort McHenry) that saved the US. Had the US navy not secured victories in the northern lakes, then the US army would have been in serious trouble. <
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>With Napoleon defeated, Great Britain started to transfer large amounts of ships and experienced troops to America. There was no opposing great power like France, Spain or Holland to come to it's aid this time. Had the war not ended, then there is every chance the United States would have gone bankrupt and lost some of the states. New England was close to breaking away. <
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>The Treaty of Ghent ended the war but resolved none of the issues that started it. This documentary is interesting for some of the details, but the overall slant is biased and could have provided so much more details. <
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>Not sure why Ironclads are on the dvd since all ships were still made of wood in 1815.
This is a poor collection of programs....
I don't know what the History Channel was thinking when they put together this poorly edited put package on the war of 1812, again it presents the facts in a rushed way. I'm sure it was intentioned, but the delivery of the show in it's final form does not really make the subject any better to understand for the viewers.
Well... um.....
I've studied this war a bit and read some interesting books on the topic by some of the top historians, and I have to say that the producers of this film did not try very hard to fit in some key details in the time slot they alloted for this documentary. Many key events were completely ignored in favor of a popular view of history. It does not address the notion of the United States' overpowering desire to sieze Canada, nor of the intense unpopularity of the war in New England. Could have been done a lot better, as were many of the earlier documentaries done by The History Channel when it first premiered (check out The American Revolution - quite excellent!).