Just the Facts: The Industrial Revolution

Basic DVD that covers the Industrial Revolution. Good because you can fit it in during a period. Content is fairly basic.

Just the Facts: The Industrial Revolution I show this documentary every semester in my cultural geography class at a local community college and I find it is an excellent overview of the many economic and geographic factors behind the Industrial Revolution occurring in England. It summarizes many points that I cover in my class and brings many concepts together regarding economic geography. I highly recommend this product as an informative teaching tool. Although it is classified in my public library as being for teens, I would suggest that its academic level is higher, and perhaps why another reviewer has rated it as uninteresting for his students who maybe were not yet ready for all that it had to offer.

What a crock. How do you sleep at night. I ordered it Sunday and did the two day shipping. And the extra charge got me a Friday delivery. Thanks a lot I guess my students really learned a lot about the subject matter on Thursday the day before it arrived.

Few visuals and two speakers... No discernible timeline and above all "BORING" Forget the "Star" rating. ZERO, NADA, ZILCH!

Terrible! One of the worst films on an important topic I have seen. Absolutely unusable in a classroom.

ok for junior high and elementary school

poor content and design

I have a personal collection of over seventy historical documentaries, and I have to say this one was the absolute WORST one I had ever owned. I hated it so much I gave it away to a fellow student in one of my college history courses for FREE. The production value is so low that it was probably produced for less than one-hundred dollars, and only features a few historians none of whom are notable. The timeline in the documentary is also disjointed and may be confusing for individuals who are unsophisticated in the history of the industrial revolution. This documentary was so bad that I decided after watching it that the 'Just for Facts' series must have absolutely no professional standards for their documentaries and have vowed never to buy one again from this particular series of documentaries. Even my worst history channel documentary in my collection is exponentially better than this piece of crap. It should be noted that the few historians that are included do not even have a very efficient grasp on the industrial revolution, and are intellectually mediocre in their analysis of the various events they detail.

This dvd is an absolute disappointment. Two people simply discussing a few points with little to no graphics or time lines is a total bore. No grade school student would have the patience to sit through this, let alone come out with any productive knowledge of the Industrial Revolution. Waste of time.