Video-Documentaries About Ancient Greece, Warfare&Technology

[Agesilaos]

Greetings to everyone!

I decided to introduce you guys some nice and good documentarys.

Theres a huge amount of documentarys available over the internet and on DVD. Most of them are realy bad and historicaly a piece of pooh pooh. Urrgs that stinks.
But since 10 years, the visual documentation quality is encreasing possitive step by step. Editorial departmens are making a better job. More and more, the world understands finaly, that the ancient world wasn't a primitive period. The totaly opposite is the fact. Actually, we have to rethink about our whole indoctrinated and disoriented knowledge. For a deeper journey into yourself, follow my youtube-channel.
http://www.youtube.com/user/1AGESILAOS1

Some of you guys will already know the one or the other movie presented here. I have 650GB of documentarys stored in my archive. I will upload the best of them from time to time.

New movies will be listed allways at the end.
I will highlight new additions with green text for one week or so.

Maybe we can create at this way a nice visual archive, to the often discussed topics. Feel free, to add your personal favorites, but please name your video correctly and accurate, so that it can be found easily with the integrated search. You can send me furthermore a PM with your favorite video and link.

Annotation to these documentarys and their content
Yes, you will find historically discrepancies. The movies do not replace the need to read books and informing yourself for years if you want to dive acute into the matter. If you want to be able to seperate for example, exageration from a historicaly detectable source, you have to consult the true ancient sources. At the end you must be allways open-minded and willing to correct your studys, and update them to new conclusions and discoverys. In the first lane, those documentarys are entertainment.

Enjoy,

Cheers!

-Agesilaos


RATING AND SYMBOLS:
:!: : Highly Recommended (Expensive visual production and historicaly "up to date")
: Good Recommendation (Higher than "Nice Standart" lower than "Highly Recommended")
: Nice Standard (Informative but not the biggest eyecandy)




[size=150:1viokdqd]DOCUMENTARYS[/size]


[size=150:1viokdqd]History Channel: Sicily the Greek legacy in the West[/size]
OFFLINE: Removed by the user.
Will be fixed or replaced.


:!: [size=150:1viokdqd]BBC: In The Footsteps of Alexander The Great[/size]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9o07Jqx ... re=related
(other parts on youtubes related video list)


[size=150:1viokdqd]Discovery Channel-Ancient Warriors: The Macedonians[/size]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4rqmOS_Kno
(other parts on youtubes related video list)


[size=150:1viokdqd]Discovery Channel -Ancient Warriors: The Spartans[/size]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaaWZrFN ... re=related
(other parts on youtubes related video list)


:!: [size=150:1viokdqd]Engineering An Empire: The Greeks[/size]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqGTCgL3 ... re=related
(other parts on youtubes related video list)


[size=150:1viokdqd]The Last Stand Of The 300[/size]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2En9cW9bLhc
(other parts on youtubes related video list)


National Geographic:
[size=150:1viokdqd]Alexander The Great - The Man Behind The Legend[/size]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNU0phJH7MY
(other parts on youtubes related video list)


History Channel Series:
[size=150:1viokdqd]Decisive Battles - The Battle Of Marathon[/size]
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/decis ... /399048956
(Follow on the same site the related videos for:
-Thermolylae
-The Spartans)


:!: [size=150:1viokdqd]The Greeks - Crucible Of Civilisation[/size]
Narrated by Liam Neeson.
Website: http://www.pbs.org/empires/thegreeks/htmlver/
Shop: http://www.pbs.org/empires/thegreeks/htmlver/

Part 1/6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMVGZEM5AN0
(Chapter The Golden Age)
Part 1/6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAGMKV2soSY
(Chapter The Revolution)


[size=150:1viokdqd]
:!: Ancient Discoveries: Mega Machines[/size]
FIXED: I did an update on my youtube-channel.
Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p ... 4EB1DE02BD
You don't have to look around for the continuing parts. Just click on the link and click
onto the playlist to start the movie. Further video-parts will start automatically!


[size=150:1viokdqd]Decisive Battles: Cynoscephalae[/size]
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/decis ... /612360789


:!: [size=150:1viokdqd]BBC: What The Ancients Did For Us - THE GREEKS[/size]
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVGx34kRyU0
(7 Parts available on youtube)


:!: [size=150:1viokdqd] Lost Worlds: Athens - Ancient Supercity[/size]
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftB95Yh_ ... re=related
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKmElPMvbiA&NR=1
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwpk7gTn ... re=related
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFpxCzv0 ... re=related
Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rQlR2_VHYI

[size=150:1viokdqd]
:!: The Ancient World - The Spartans[/size]
Update on my youtube-channel.
Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p ... 3093B80EE8
You don't have to look around for the continuing parts. Just click on the link and click
onto the playlist to start the movie. Further video-parts will start automatically!
suggested by Polinik


[size=150:1viokdqd]Helen Of Troy[/size]
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkEi1nhF ... re=related
(10 parts available on youtube)
suggested by Astiryu1


:!: [size=150:1viokdqd]Secrets Of The Parthenon[/size]
I did another upload to my youtube channel today. The documentary is not exactly about
warfare. But it is till today (2010) the most accurate consideration about the pathenon
in athens. The content is about its construction history and beyond that, it shows you
the incredible reconstruction work realized with accurancy ad totaly passion.
I hope youtube will not delete this video. If not, i will upload this documentary also in HighDefinition.
Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p ... 643156FCF3
You don't have to look around for the continuing parts. Just click on the link and click
onto the playlist to start the movie. Further video-parts will start automatically!


:!: [size=150:1viokdqd]Ancient Discoverys - Cars And Planes[/size]
I did another upload to my youtube channel. Official History Channel-text:
"This amazing episode uncovers highly sophisticated transportation, accurately presaging today's technology, that
was imagined, and even built, thousands of years ago."

You will see among other things about the Diolkos of Corinth, Heron Of Alexandria and other magnificent findings
from all over the world.
Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p ... 28551B6446
You don't have to look around for the continuing parts. Just click on the link and click
onto the playlist to start the movie. Further video-parts will start automatically!


:!: [size=150:1viokdqd]Ancient Discoverys - The Antikythera Mechanism[/size]
And another upload to my youtube channel. Official History Channel-text:
"As seen on The History Channel , Ancient Discoveries unearths amazing technologies that we think of as modern,
but which actually have their origins in antiquity. The series travels back in time to uncover remarkably sophisticated
inventions, and to celebrate the ancient engineers whose ingenuity laid the foundations for today’s technology.
Shot on location in the Mediterranean and the Middle East, this six episode, 2 disc setfeatures 3D computer graphic and
working recreations of ancient machines."

Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p ... 479B8A6B97
You don't have to look around for the continuing parts. Just click on the link and click
onto the playlist to start the movie. Further video-parts will start automatically!


[size=150:1viokdqd]
Decisive Battles - The Battle Of Gaugamela[/size]
Update on my youtube-channel.
Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p ... 5CAB236A8E
You don't have to look around for the continuing parts. Just click on the link and click
onto the playlist to start the movie. Further video-parts will start automatically!


:!: [size=150:1viokdqd]Egypt Unwrapped - Alexander The Greats Lost Tomb[/size]
On my youtube channel. Official National Geographic-text:
"Alexander the Great is one of historys greatest warrior kings, and was the leader of the
most powerful nation in the ancient world. The location of his tomb has eluded archaeologists
for nearly 2,000 years but new theories may help reveal its location."

In the last 5 years some very interesting facts appeared about Alexander's tomb.
Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p ... C6EA61B547 - (Available in HD/720p)
You don't have to look around for the continuing parts. Just click on the link and click
onto the playlist to start the movie. Further video-parts will start automatically!

[size=150:1viokdqd]
:!: Ancient Discoveries - Siege of Troy[/size]
Update on my youtube-channel. Official History Channel-text:
Everyone knows the story of this epic conflict: a beautiful woman, a wooden horse, a trick heel, Brad Pitt...
But where does the myth end and the reality begin? This new series finds the "truth."
Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p ... 39D0DF5DD6
You don't have to look around for the continuing parts. Just click on the link and click
onto the playlist to start the movie. Further video-parts will start automatically!


[size=150:1viokdqd]Ancient Discoveries - Ancient Surgery and Medicine[/size]
On my youtube channel. From the official History Channel-DVD: Ancient Discoveries
Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p ... 0146D1F712
You don't have to look around for the continuing parts. Just click on the link and click
onto the playlist to start the movie. Further video-parts will start automatically!


:!: [size=150:1viokdqd]Ancient Discoveries - Heron Of Alexandria[/size]
On my youtube channel. From the official History Channel-DVD: Ancient Discoveries
This episode discusses Heron of Alexandria an ancient Greek inventor, who created amongst
other things automatic doors and coin-operated machines.
Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p ... 0146D1F712
You don't have to look around for the continuing parts. Just click on the link and click
onto the playlist to start the movie. Further video-parts will start automatically!


:!: [size=150:1viokdqd]The Ancient World - ATHENS: The Truth about Democracy (Athens - Dawn Of Democracy)[/size]
On my youtube channel. From the official Channel4-DVD:
In the second part of her exploration of ancient Athens, Bettany Hughes examines how, as Athenian
democracy progressed, it became embroiled in the clash of new and old ideas; so much so that Athens
started to tear itself apart (...)
Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p ... 87CACC04F7
You don't have to look around for the continuing parts. Just click on the link and click
onto the playlist to start the movie. Further video-parts will start automatically!
suggested by Matt Lukes

[Pericles of Rhodes]

Nice one Agesilaos I’m sure we’ll all find them entertaining (one way or the other )

I highly recommend the BBC: In The Footsteps of Alexander The Great. I’ve got the DVD set and really enjoyed them!

[Paullus Scipio]

....a great idea, Agesilaos....a 'Laus' for you!

Mods, how about making this a 'sticky' ?????

[Susanne]

Cool, I've always been looking for Decisive Battles episodes!

[Ceasar Augustus]

Excellent, now I don't have to spend 5 hours searching the internet for a good documentary about Greece.

[Peter Raftos]

Too good. May I suggest the addition of academic titles which have "how to information" as well. My first offering would be:

[size=150:1ap5rmzl]RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, DEPT. OF CLASSICS Text & Textile: An Introduction to Wool-Working for Readers of Greek and Latin [/size]
Susan Edmunds, Prudence Jones and Gregory Nagy
[url:1ap5rmzl]http://classics.rutgers.edu/text_textile/textile1.htm[/url]
Text & Textile is not an instructional video. Textile techniques are clearly demonstrated to help the viewer understand their metaphoric significance. The DVD does contain supplementary material to help those interested in learning to spin or weave find the information they need.

The DVD Text & Textile: An Introduction to Wool-Working for Readers of Greek and Latin demonstrates the process of turning wool into cloth using ancient tools and techniques.

The DVD contains supplementary material for classroom and general educational use, including information for those wanting to learn to spin or weave using ancient techniques. Running time: 30 minutes.
ISBN: 0-9759617-0-5. At US$30 thats only a dollar a minute.

[Ceasar Augustus]

Yeah, well I don't really have enough money to spend even that...

[Peter Raftos]

John,
When I was 12 and I really wanted something that required cash to pay for (like saving for my first bicycle, a new toy or whatever) I found work. Newspaper delivery was my mainstay for a couple of years but then I offered to do things like dog walking, raking leaves and mow lawns for neighbours. I opened a bank account to keep the cash out of my hot hands. Its amazing that when you tell people you have a goal that you are saving for how often they will find even small jobs or tasks they don't want to do, but will pay someone else to do. Only two rules apply:

1) No job too small.
2) Where there is a will there is a way.

Before too long you'll have the stuff you want.

[Ceasar Augustus]

I mean I'm already saving up for a couple of other things, and I only have like $190...

[Peter Raftos]

Don't dis' yourself John. That is impressive. You are only 13, and you have set yourself a goal most adults would, shy away from. I can only commend you and tell you that you are on the right track. I know you are in a rush to have these things but it sounds like you have made an excellent start already lol:

[Ceasar Augustus]

Thanks .

[greekwarrior34]

For whomever interested in:

I have translated to Spanish the Ancient Warriors: The Spartans documentary. You can read it here.

[Justin of the New Yorkii]

The Battles B.C. series on the History Channel was extremely disappointing... a bunch of facts you already know interspersed with flat-out falsehoods that are demonstrably untrue, and some cartoonish violence thrown in to please the rabble.

It's one thing to make shallow, superficial documentaries on ancient history... but it's another thing to make downright amateurish mistakes and let them slip by the editing room... for example, "Hasdrubal was Hannibal Barca's older brother," and "the Gauls sacked Rome during the 3rd century BC."

It's awfully hard to enjoy a documentary series when you notice inaccuracies flying into your ears left and right.

[Polinik]

I saw this documentary, beside some unreasonably exaggerated "facts" about pedestry and homosexuality??? :evil: , i's not bad..Nothing new to learn,but some really nice shots of Eurotas valley.Taygetos,Thermopyles etc...Nicely done.Narator is also nice looking lady.

[size=150:38mxvpt0]The Spartans[/size]
1st of 15parts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrwN_AGnRFo

[Matt Lukes]

Absolutely- The Spartans is phenomenal.

I would add these other PBS documentaries:

Athens- the dawn of democracy

The Minotaur's Island

All presented and written by Bettany Hughes- these are absolutely the most outstanding ancient civilization documentaries I've ever seen- definitely not History Channel junk LOL Each of these, including the Spartans, is available on DVD from PBS actually and I think well worth the cost.