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National Geographic Beyond the Movie - The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King | 
 enlarge | Actor: National Geographic
Studio: Nat'l Geographic Vid
Category: DVD
List Price: $19.98
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 45243
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 60 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.6 x 0.5
MPN: WARDG75058D
ISBN: 0792233468
UPC: 727994750581
EAN: 9780792233466
ASIN: B0000D9BF6
Theatrical Release Date: 2003
Release Date: December 16, 2003
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Condition: NEW SEALED
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Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 05/10/2005 Run time: 70 minutes Rating: Nr
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
 Same as extra of theatrical edition DVD August 13, 2008
Kittynut
This is on the second disc of the theatrical edition of Return of the King.
 Not bad at all December 8, 2004
angel1801 (Adelaide, SA)
2 out of 12 found this review helpful
I gave this DVD 5 stars. Why? On the Australian (Region 4) version of the ROTK DVD (The "Theatrical" version), it comes as a free bonus product on the 2nd (and bonus DVD). So, on my copy it cost me nothing! You can't complain when this DVD won't cost you a cent. At no cost at all, you can forgive the flaws and just enjoy it for what it is. It is actually a resonable view on its own when you pay nothing to watch it!
 Based on Jackson not Tolkien! July 9, 2004
B. Austin (Smithfield, UT United States)
10 out of 14 found this review helpful
Let me start by saying that I loved the movies. But this commentary uses supposed Tolkien experts that have never read the books! In the movie Aragorn is a reluctant hero. In the actual novel Aragorn has been preparing his entire life to claim, not reclaim, the throne of Gondor. That is a huge discrepancy between the movies and the novel. I am surprised that the "experts" did not notice.
National Geographic slipped on this one April 18, 2004
viagrafalls (Denmark)
33 out of 38 found this review helpful
Where the original National Geographic Beyond the Movie - The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring was quite decent, providing an analogy of the creation of Middle Earth, and what personal events Tolkien probably inserted into his masterpiece, this one is the complete opposite.While the concept basically is the same (interviews with the cast, experts, etc), the underlying theme is extremely poor. Basically the makers of this documentary start comparing characters in Lord of the Rings to real historical figures. Wormtongue poisoned Theoden's mind with lies; Rasputin did the same. So Wormtongue might have been based on Rasputin. Aragorn dwelled in the wilderness for years, only to return and claim his throne. Theodore Roosevelt lost his wife and mother, and retreated to a ranch in Dakota; the wild. See the connection? Characters in the Lord of the Rings most likely have not been based on any real persons. And if they were, I'm quite sure Professor Tolkien would have mentioned it somewhere. While even linking world events to Lord of the Rings was speculative, this is just stretching it. Very poor.
Horrible Gradeschool Essay March 23, 2004
A. Purviance (Oregon, USA)
18 out of 26 found this review helpful
"How LOTR is like real life". Each segment attempts to explain why some historical figure is like a character in the movie, or vise versa. Terrible, bad - a middle school student could write a better script than this crap. Not even worth a rental.
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