Janson Media’s stunning aerial tour of Ireland on DVD, The Island, received a highly complimentary review from Educational Media Reviews Online.
Excerpts from the review…
“This documentary is comprised completely of absolutely beautiful aerial images filmed from above Ireland in a helicopter. A narrator explains the significance of each location shown and the connections between each sequence suggest the next location; the narration does not follow a strictly chronological timeline. Some of the images are seen from reasonably high above, others are shown close enough that architectural details are easily noticed…
“…The narration covers a huge range of history, from pagans to druids to Christian influence on architecture, to man-made islands, Viking invasions, the introduction of the potato, the building of castles and Irish displacement, man-made canals, traditional farming, the Black Plague, pirates, Sir Walter Raleigh, and a gladiator’s arena.”
Read the complete review here.
Educational Media Reviews Online (EMRO) is a database of video, DVD, audio CD and CD-ROM reviews of materials from major educational and documentary distributors and independent filmmakers. The reviews are written by librarians and teaching faculty in institutions across the United States and Canada.