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The Incas Remembered
The Incas Remembered
Actors: Edwin Newman, Lucy Jarvis
Director: Peter Jarvis
Genres: Educational, Documentary
NR     2005     0hr 54min

Explore The Mysteries Of An Advanced Civilization?s Disappearance. Centuries ago, they performed miraculously technical brain surgery, built modern irrigation canals, made agricultural discoveries still used by modern man...  more »

     
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Actors: Edwin Newman, Lucy Jarvis
Director: Peter Jarvis
Genres: Educational, Documentary
Sub-Genres: Educational, History
Studio: MONTEREY VIDEO
Format: DVD - Color - Closed-captioned
DVD Release Date: 08/02/2005
Release Year: 2005
Run Time: 0hr 54min
Screens: Color
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaDVD Credits: 1
Total Copies: 0
Members Wishing: 2
MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Languages: English

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Movie Reviews

Good enough
Jeffery Mingo | Homewood, IL USA | 11/02/2006
(3 out of 5 stars)

"I saw a more recent documentary on Machu Picchu and I hated how it said almost nothing about the Incas, almost as if the place built itself. I appreciate this work because it did focus on the people. They made boats and bridges of grass and weeds. They lived communally like many Native American tribes to the north. They had taxation, even back then. To be honest, it showed a corpse and never brought up human sacrifices.
I have a love-hate relationships with reenactments in documentaries. They seems so fake and meant for the masses, but they also keep things moving unlike seeing one slide after the other. Here, there are no reenactments; instead, they show present-day native Peruvians doing things. They show some indigenous and Spanish paintings and I actually wish they could have shown more of that.
I thought the Spanish conquered Latin America almost simultaneously. However, this work said they took Mexico first, and then went to South America. I thought contemporaries let conquistadores off the hook for the genocide they caused. Here, I learned that the Spanish king was not happy that Francisco Pizarro killed his Incan counterpart. Pizarro was later killed by his crew. Very informative."