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The South rises and falls again.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Every week, the e-mail box fills with the question: Why wasn't such-and-such reviewed in the DVD column? The answer usually is that the disc wasn't sent for review or arrived too late to meet deadline. Since this column focuses on weekly releases, some fall through the cracks.
But some are too important to ignore. Enormous case in point: "The Civil War" (4 stars, Warner Home Video, $129.95), released last Tuesday, arrived too late for a pre-deadline perusal. Be assured, however, that Warner and PBS have treated Ken Burns' endlessly imitated landmark documentary with the respect it deserves.
All 11 hours of the nine-part 1990 series, recently rebroadcast on PBS affiliates, have been digitally remastered and remixed into 5.1 Dolby surround, which makes the images crisper and renders the haunting soundtrack even more integral to the storytelling.
The five-DVD set includes the "Making History" ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, The South rises and falls again.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)