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these cities, cloisters and churches of the<br />
"Golden Ring" that the heart of Russia<br />
used to beat - until the October Revolution.<br />
Now, after over 70 years, the bells can be<br />
heard chiming regularly once again, and<br />
the remaining cloisters and churches<br />
radiate their former splendor.<br />
This enlightening program visits the<br />
fascinating towns of Moscow's "Golden<br />
Ring." One unique town, Susdal, could be<br />
a city from a Russian fairy tale. In the<br />
Middle Ages it was one of the most<br />
important cities far and wide, larger than<br />
Paris or London - now it has been<br />
relegated to depths of a Russian<br />
backwater. Yet it is a typical Russian city<br />
with a Kremlin, churches, palaces and<br />
fortified cloisters, which defended the<br />
Orthodox faith at first against the Islamic<br />
Mongols, later against the Catholic<br />
Swedes. This informative and entertaining<br />
program was filmed entirely on location<br />
and shows the many changes that have<br />
taken place since the collapse of the<br />
Soviet Union.<br />
Item no. : VC00770451<br />
Format : DVD (Region 1, Color)<br />
Duration : 60 minutes<br />
StdBkNo : 9780769790978<br />
Price : USD 50.00<br />
SITES SITES OF OF THE THE WORLD'S<br />
WORLD'S<br />
CULTURES CULTURES - SOUTHERN<br />
SOUTHERN<br />
INDIA INDIA AND AND AND THE THE THE DANCE DANCE OF<br />
OF<br />
THE THE THE GODS<br />
GODS<br />
In Kumbakonom, according to an ancient<br />
myth, the world evolved from a "kumba", a<br />
vessel.<br />
The city in the south of India claims to be<br />
the navel of the world, which, according to<br />
the Hindu creed, is actually the sacred city<br />
of Benares.<br />
This is one of the numerous contradictions<br />
which are a particular characteristic of the<br />
south of India, where myths, religious<br />
traditions and everyday life are entwined<br />
in what appears to be a hopelessly tangled<br />
web.<br />
Yet, in fact, everything does have an inner<br />
Indian logic, a cohesion derived and<br />
based on thousand-year-old stories of the<br />
gods and their worlds.<br />
This background explains the mysterious<br />
temple and also the fate of an old woman,<br />
who dedicated her life to the gods.<br />
Item no. : HZ00770379<br />
Format : DVD (Region 1, Color)<br />
Duration : 56 minutes<br />
StdBkNo : 9780769792361<br />
Price : USD 50.00<br />
SITES SITES OF OF THE THE WORLD'S<br />
WORLD'S<br />
CULTURES<br />
CULTURES CULTURES - ST.<br />
ST.<br />
PETERSBURG: PETERSBURG: WINDOW WINDOW OON<br />
O N<br />
EUROPE EUROPE<br />
EUROPE<br />
A window to Europe was what Peter the<br />
Great wanted to create when, in 1703, he<br />
laid the foundation stone for the new<br />
capital city of his Russian empire. He sent<br />
50,000 serfs into the swampy delta of the<br />
Neva to pound the harbor city out of the<br />
ground.<br />
Under Katharina the Great, St Petersburg<br />
finally became the thriving metropolis<br />
which Peter the Great had dreamed of: a<br />
"Venice of the North", a city of the arts, the<br />
sciences and literature.<br />
Many artists, craftsmen, scientists and<br />
philosophers from Europe responded to<br />
the Tsarina's summons to <strong>com</strong>e east.<br />
They brought with them new ideas, which<br />
they then blended with the old eastern<br />
traditions.<br />
A cultural center emerged, quite<br />
unparalleled in the west.<br />
Item no. : TY00770380<br />
Format : DVD (Region 1, Color)<br />
Duration : 56 minutes<br />
StdBkNo : 9780769792033<br />
Price : USD 50.00<br />
SITES SITES SITES OF OF OF THE THE WORLD'S<br />
WORLD'S<br />
WORLD'S<br />
CULTURES<br />
CULTURES CULTURES - STONEHENGE<br />
STONEHENGE<br />
AND AND MEGALITHIC<br />
MEGALITHIC<br />
CULTURES<br />
CULTURES<br />
Some 5,000 monuments have been<br />
preserved from the Neolithic Age. They<br />
testify to a culture which left no written<br />
evidence and whose religious ideals are<br />
obscured by a veil of conjecture.<br />
Numerous unsolved questions still<br />
fascinate people, as do the huge dolmens<br />
and menhirs, the burial mounds and stone<br />
circles. They create for us a society which<br />
was capable of great feats.<br />
This informative program focuses on<br />
Stonehenge, the symbol of megalithic<br />
culture, and investigates the relationship<br />
of space, power and death, essential to<br />
any understanding of this unique<br />
monument.<br />
Item no. : YA00770452<br />
Format : DVD (Region 1, Color)<br />
Duration : 60 minutes<br />
StdBkNo : 9780769790725<br />
Price : USD 50.00<br />
SITES SITES OF OF THE THE WORLD'S<br />
WORLD'S<br />
CULTURES CULTURES - TEOTIHUACAN:<br />
TEOTIHUACAN:<br />
CITY CITY OF OF THE THE GODS<br />
GODS<br />
As with many of the pre-Spanish<br />
civilizations of Central and South America<br />
there are more questions than answers<br />
surrounding the culture of Teotihuacan.<br />
From village <strong>com</strong>munities, at around 200<br />
BC, there developed an urban civilization<br />
in the highlands of Mexico. Over the<br />
centuries it produced huge, precisely<br />
constructed pyramids for cultic purposes.<br />
In the 8th century AD Teotihuacan suffered<br />
a catastrophic collapse. At its zenith this<br />
now legendary ruined city extended over<br />
20 square kilometers and was thus larger<br />
than Imperial Rome.<br />
Nobody knows what language its<br />
inhabitants spoke, or what people they<br />
belonged to. No writing has been found,<br />
nor has the name of any ruler.<br />
The film follows the traces of a forgotten<br />
society and contrasts them with the<br />
surviving Indian traditions of present-day<br />
Mexico.<br />
Item no. : LR00770456<br />
Format : DVD (Region 1, Color)<br />
Duration : 60 minutes<br />
StdBkNo : 9780769790947<br />
Price : USD 50.00<br />
SITES SITES SITES OF OF OF THE THE WORLD'S<br />
WORLD'S<br />
CULTURES CULTURES - THE<br />
THE<br />
ESCORIAL: ESCORIAL: ESCORIAL: THE THE THE DREAM DREAM DREAM OF OF<br />
OF<br />
A A DEVOUT DEVOUT DEVOUT MONARCH<br />
MONARCH<br />
MONARCH<br />
It was to be a bulwark of the faith, a<br />
symbol of the greatness and power of the<br />
Spanish world empire.<br />
In a manner virtually unparalleled by any<br />
other building, the Escorial reflects the<br />
spirit of its age, the 16th century, and of its<br />
patron, Philipp II. Philipp II, driven by a<br />
blind faith in the Catholic Church and the<br />
burning desire to emulate his father,<br />
Charles V, had the Escorial built in a bleak,<br />
deserted landscape. From this remote<br />
vantage point he wanted to rule the world.<br />
The architecture is a perfect reflection of<br />
this spirit, externally an austere building<br />
almost entirely without ornamentation.<br />
It is, moreover, no coincidence that the<br />
building is reminiscent of a cloister; part of<br />
which is still used today as a monastry.<br />
And it was from this fortified cloister that<br />
Philipp sought the solution to one of the<br />
most intractable problems of his time - the<br />
schism in the church. He resorted to the<br />
means of the Inquisition.<br />
The building, and its whole style, exudes<br />
the relentlessness with which Philipp<br />
exerted his power.<br />
Item no. : YB00770176<br />
Format : DVD (Region 1, Color)<br />
Duration : 55 minutes<br />
StdBkNo : 9780769792415<br />
Price : USD 50.00<br />
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