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Liberty's Kids: Complete Series

Director: Marsha Goodman;judith Reilly
Actors: Jill Anderson (vi), Vincent Lee Alston, Carl Beck, Terry Berner, Robert Berry (vi)
Studio: Shout! Factory
Category: DVD

List Price: ~~$59.98~~
Buy New: $44.99
You Save: $14.99 (25%)

Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars

3 reviews
Sales Rank: 1619

Format: Animated, Box Set, Color, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: G (General Audience)
Region: 1
Number Of Discs: 6
Running Time: 900 Minutes

UPC: 826663109184
EAN: 0826663109184
ASIN: B001B73PO4

Theatrical Release Date: September 2, 2002
Release Date: October 14, 2008 (In 6 Days)
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Not yet released

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Caught on opposite sides of the revolution, Benjamin Franklin s teenage reporters, American colonist James and young Englishwoman Sarah, confront the real, physical dangers of war. As the conflict rages, James and Sarah are compelled to choose between their friendship and their countries, their understanding of good and evil, and the moral dilemmas inherent in war. All the while they try
to look after the mischievous Henri, an immigrant French boy whose comical escapades constantly lead them into trouble, as the three bear witness to the highs and lows of the American Revolution.

Starring news legend Walter Cronkite as Benjamin Franklin and including guest starring roles by award-winning actors and real-life historical figures like Dustin Hoffman, Annette Bening, Michael Douglas, General Norman Schwarzkopf, Sylvester Stallone, Arnold
Schwarzenegger, Billy Crystal, Ben Stiller, Whoopi Goldberg, Liam Neeson and many more, the complete Emmy and Humanitas Award-nominated Liberty s Kids is finally available on DVD in one six-disc collectors set!

Bonus Features:

* A Look Back At Liberty s Kids with the series creators

* Benjamin Franklin s Newsbytes

* Continental Cartoons

* Now & Then

* Mystery Guest Game

* Original Pencil Test

* 40-Page Collectible Booklet with fold out US map.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars

Homeschoolers dream for American History September 14, 2008
just my 2 cents (USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful

As a Homeschooling mom this is been a dream come true. It provides the informations in a fun fact filled way that kids really understand what our founding fathers and our people went through to become the United States of America.
I would recommend it for kids ages 4-101! I love watching it too.
To get the complete series in one set is great because watching the individual episodes online at KEWL cartoons is hard because they only offer 5 at a time and generally out of order.
We own a few of the DVD's which were hard to find and we watch them over and over. So, I'm really thrilled to get the complete set all at once and I'll use it in my lesson plans for our Homeschool co-op too.
I know no one who buys this will be disapointed except if your a History Major or professor and you'd only be disapointed that it didn't last longer into the Civil War and the War of 1812.
Maybe they'll carry on at a later date.
My 2 cents thanks for the read.

5 out of 5 stars

THRILLED to have this available! August 28, 2008
Jomajoka (Butler, IN)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

I have waited a long time for this wonderful series to come out on DVD. My son was 4 when we first saw it on PBS. He was enraptured by the story lines and the history lessons which don't seem like lessons. Thus began his fascination in history and wars (as most boys are). He is now 10 and has a reputation in school for being a history nut giving his fellow classmates "quizzes" on history details and I give Liberty's Kids the reason why he is so into history.

5 out of 5 stars

Just what I've been waiting for -- October can't come soon enough!! June 25, 2008
Phoenician (Phoenix, AZ USA)
43 out of 45 found this review helpful

See? What did I tell ya? Patience is a virtue, and I'm absolutely willing to wait for October to get the ENTIRE series of Liberty's Kids for the far-more reasonable price of forty-four bucks!

As I've mentioned in the Teacher's Edition, this is the far better deal out there (seriously, what teacher can pay 500+ dollars for ONE show? Is PBS really that unaware of most teachers' ridiculously low salaries? I don't know . . . maybe they expect "the school" to buy it for their library or something -- but which school would pay that much cash for a six-disc DVD set?)

So . . . on with my review of the series:

I've loved this show since I first saw it back in early 2003. During AP US History, this show actually helped incite curiosity and understanding for the complex period that is the American Revolution. It's also the series that made me curious into looking into American History deeper, and reading up on the finer details of America's birth.

The timeline, which features events from the Boston Massacre to the ratification for the US Constitution, is actually quite accurate -- they merely paint into the story the fictional characters of James (the teenage American-patriot), Sarah (the unsure British-loyalist), and Henri (the younger French-sidekick) alongside the historical Founding Fathers.

First airing on PBS, the 40 half-hour episodes are actually quite close to being a half-hour long each (with no commercials originally intended, we get to enjoy more story, as well as fun trivia breaks in between the main story, hosted by James, Sarah, Henri, and even Dr. Franklin).

Among other things to enjoy are the theme song, "Through My Own Eyes," as well as the wide range of voice actors (the cast ranges from Walter Cronkite as Ben Franklin to Billy Crystal as John Adams, with Governor Schwartzenegger, Whoopi Goldberg, Aaron Carter and many more familar voices from Hollywood).

So, yes be sure to buy this series, you won't be dissapointed -- it's wonderfully smart, historically accurate, and great fun for the whole family and you'll be surprised to actually learn loads from it . . . again, just be sure to order THIS one -- the one with the better price. :)

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