The History Channel Presents The Best of Modern Marvels | 
| Director: Bruce Nash
Actors: Max Raphael, Harlan Saperstein
Studio: A&E Home Video (New REleaset)
Category: DVD
List Price: $99.95
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 23175
Format: Box Set, Black & White, Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 14
Running Time: 2115 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.9
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 7.7 x 5.5
MPN: D103970D
UPC: 733961103977
EAN: 0733961103977
ASIN: B0015XASV2
Release Date: May 27, 2008
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Studio: A&e Home Video Release Date: 09/23/2008
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 Tremendous January 6, 2009
Karen J. Ferge (Dallas, Oregon)
I bought this for my son-in-law for Christmas this year. We haven't seen him since as he is watch all 14 in a row. He loves them. It was a great gift idea and we will be borrowing them soon.
 Lots of death and destruction October 22, 2008
K. Gittins (CA USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is about 35 hours of documentaries from the History Channel's "Modern Marvels" series. Most of the disks have four 45-minute episodes made up of about a half dozen disasters per episode.
The first 4 or 5 disks are mostly death-and-destruction. The disasters range from drilling into a salt dome under a lake (oops!), 600 people dying in fire at the over-crowded Cocoanut Grove nightclub, airplane crashes, bridge collapses, building collapses, dam collapses, mine fires, tanker and paddlewheeler explosions, tower collapses, and...well, you get the idea.
Many of the disasters were a culmination of a series of little errors here and there that finally added up to the big problem, while some were (as one person explains) a "failure of Construction 101" in the case of a parking structure collapse.
Other episodes are more benign "Modern Marvels", such as rubber, distilleries, candy, monumental buildings and bridges, and high-tech sex, and toilet tech :-)
The minor negatives include the narrator's delivery which uses too many dramatic pauses so that you don't really...know when he has finished...speaking. Also, there is no episode guide booklet, and the individual DVD cases are a little vague as to the exact contents.
I bought this when it was on one of Amazon's recent great sales, and it worked out to less than three bucks per disk. At the regular going price, it is probably still a good value.
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