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My class had to watch this (the one about the Protestantism) during a religion class. It may be a good movie if you're really, really interested in Protestantism, but it's a bit to much for us petty little souls in elementary school.

Kingsley talked about Protestantism, a part of it called the Evangilicarian-Litterarian-Lutherarian-Gurghlrmnarian-thing, then a branch of that one called the Revolutionarian-Revoltarian- Protestantarian which in turn had another subsection of it called the Theolutherarian-Biblarian-gurghlarsch. I have no idea. A bit to in-depth for us.

Anyway, one person in my class fell asleep, and I studied my shoes. They were nice, and still are, I suppose. We may have been the wrong audience for this movie. It was really informative, far to in-depth for us and really boring. We didn't manage to stay through the whole episode-thing (which I throughout this review have called movie, sorry about that), but I reviewed it anyway. I don't think there is anything that redeems it in the last 10 minutes.

This could have been an excellent and informative production, but it was not. In the first episode on Judaism, they did not use the proper names for Jewish holy days meaning the viewer had no idea which holiday Ben Kingsley was talking about. Much of this pervades in the Eastern faith episodes. In almost every episode, the viewer could barely hear the narrator over the musical background, a phenomenon that pervades many a modern documentary.

This was supposed to be an educational production but instead it was a poor musical. It was a chore to listen to because the music was so loud. The soundtrack was poorly mixed. I cannot give it more than 3 stars because it fails to engage the audience because of the music.

16x9 productions were being regularly used when this was produced, just not HD. Why 4x3 formatting was used is beyond me. It was like looking though a buttonhole.