Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance

For those interested in documentaries, history and art - specifically about the Renaissance, but without being a scholar in the subject, perhaps even if you are not sure what the Renaissance was all about, where Florence is, and with no knowledge about the House of Medici, then this documentary have a lot to teach, and should give a taste for further studies. For those that already know a lot about this subject will perhaps not be fully satisfied, as the other - more critical - reviews here have pointed out, but still I just can't imagine anyone that could regret watching it.

Even with 4 parts and 4 hours, it's not even barely scratching the surface of this complex story, but still manage to compress it into an amazing story of both the rise of the Medici dynasty (lasting almost a half millennium), the Renaissance and a mind boggling amount of the most well known and beloved artists of the era and how these appeared in the same time-period and place, in a climate of intense creativity and enlightenment, becoming the start of the end of the middle-ages.

Specially the soundtrack is beautiful, but sadly the composer sold the rights to the company that made the film (that went bankrupt), so any CD or similar of the music won't be likely to ever be published.