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title: "EMRO on Janson's DVD, The Island: \"Absolutely Beautiful\""
date: 2008-07-28T05:59:00-05:00
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# EMRO on Janson's DVD, The Island: "Absolutely Beautiful" 

Janson Media's stunning aerial tour of Ireland on DVD, [*The Island*](http://www.janson.com/dvd/show_title.php?pid=20317), 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](http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/emro/emroDetail.asp?Number=2192).

[Educational Media Reviews Online](http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/emro/search.asp) (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.