" Empires Collection: The Dynasties (5 Disc Gift Set) - Empires Collection: The Dynasties is a compilation of five outstanding stories of some of histories greatest dynasties. Egypt's Golden Empire In 1570 B.C., when Rome was still a marsh and the Acropolis was an empty rock, Egypt was already 1000 years old. Although the period of the pyramid-builders was long over, Egypt lay on the threshold of its greatest age. The New Kingdom would ..."
"Part of the Empires series, this film looks at 500 years of Egyptian history, from 1567 BC until 1085 BC. At the beginning of the story, the pyramids were already 1,000 years old; but in the era of the New Kingdom, Egypt would become the most important, the most feared and the most exuberant nation on earth. The series spans from the foundation of the empire to its final collapse and the end of native Egyptian rule and brings to life na ..."
"Amateur movies shot with small handheld cameras by six German infantrymen on the Eastern Front during World War II form the core of this documentary. The men who took the movies appear on camera as old men to provide narration (in German, with subtitles), and they provide a perspective not often heard. As might be expected, they distance themselves from atrocities, and as they were foot soldiers in the Wehrmacht, their denials of involv ..."