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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780767066839
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0767066839
Label: A & E Home Video
Manufacturer: A & E Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: A & E Home Video
Release Date: August 10, 2004
Running Time: 50 minutes
Sales Rank: 40434
Studio: A & E Home Video
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Joan of Arc's treatment in A&E's Biography, like that of the others in the "Legendary Women" series, is true to the formula that works so well: lush photography of medieval and later historical images, intelligent and provocative interviews with leading scholars, and just a touch of dramatization to enliven the film and make it accessible to both the adult history buff and the junior high school student.
Jeanne d'Arc, known in English as Joan, lived just before the dawn of the Renaissance in France. England and France had been engaged in the Hundred Years War--a war the English were slowly winning. Crown Prince Charles, whose father had abdicated the throne in favor of the British monarch, was living a secluded life at Chinon in the Loire Valley, far away from the travails of occupied Paris. Visited one day by the peasant girl Joan--who was being guided by angelic voices toward the restoration of France--Charles was somehow convinced to let the 19-year-old girl in men's clothing lead an army in his name. Much to everyone's surprise, the girl won dozens of battles and soon made it possible for Charles to be crowned king of France at Reims. Later caught by the English, Joan was held as a prisoner suspected of witchcraft for a year before she was finally put to death at the stake.
Joan's legend lived on, much as the angels' voices told her it would, but she was not beatified by the Roman Catholic Church until 1920. This thoroughly researched, well-written, and visually exciting historical Biography documents not only her life per se, but also includes input from various scholars and writers about the nature of Joan's supernatural experience, from Freudian to Christian analysis. --Erik J. Macki
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Rating:  -
I was disappointed when I viewed this disc. I'd been expecting a nice DVD copy of the A&E Biography episode on Joan of Arc aired in the mid-1990s (my TV taping is from 1994 and is fading rapidly). That was a British-produced film that A&E obviously bought the rights to, slapped their usual intro over, and broadcast under their "Biography" aegis. It was better assembled, more wide-ranging in its scope, more honest, and vastly more engrossing than this tedious new program (copyright 1997). "Virgin ... Read More
Rating:  -
As far as I'm concerned, Joan of Arc is the most fascinating woman to ever live - or I should say young lady, since - in a travesty of justice and a striking show of cowardice on the part of the man she basically crowned the king of a newly restored France two years earlier - she was burned at the stake as a heretic at the age of 19. Twenty-four years later, her conviction was overturned by the Church, then in 1920 she was officially canonized; for centuries now, she has been looked upon as a national ... Read More
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