Warner Bros. brings the powerful original 1977 miniseries about America's brutal history of slavery, 'ROOTS', to Blu-ray as The History Channel's new re-imagining gets underway.
A superlative tour of the "dark continent," Africa: Eye to Eye with the Unknown, sheds much light on the lives of those incredible creatures that inhabit this varied and extreme landscape.
Producers Roma Downey and Mark Burnett have enlisted literal armies of fine actors, three excellent directors, and judicious selection of Old and New Testament episodes for this "epic miniseries." While there is occasional unevenness in the picture quality, this huge undertaking succeeds where some of its biblical predecessors have failed in delivering an effective dramatic whole.