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  • Directors: Lars Lindberg Christensen
  • Format: Box set, Colour, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English, German, Greek
  • Subtitles: German, English, Danish, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Finnish, Swedish, French, Russian
  • Region: All Regions
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: Exempt
  • Studio: Spv
  • DVD Release Date: 15 Dec 2008
  • Run Time: 133 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0009HL7GU
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 20,126 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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On the momentous occasion of the Hubble Space Telescope's 15-year anniversary, the European Space Agency released this commemorative documentary looking back of the history of discovery that the telescope has facilitated. Retrace the story of its successes and difficulties, illustrated by state-of-the-art computer animation, as well as spellbinding footage photographs taken from Hubble, much of which has been previously unseen until now. The film presents some of the most fascinating facts about our universe that Hubble has uncovered, and explains things like wormholes, black monsters, and event horizons. All of this is accompanied by a score that captures the grand majesty of the film's subject matter.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Sadly this is mostly just a puff piece, 10 April 2007
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I was more than a little disappointed with this considering the fact that the Hubble telescope is one of humankind's most spectacular technological and scientific achievements. Instead of giving the viewer specific detail about what Hubble has achieved we get instead a kind of generalized, gee whiz hype about what a wonderful instrument it is. More--much more--information about how it was built and how it works and what its features are and what it has discovered and taught us could have been including in the narrative.

In fact, the narrative is dumbed down to an annoying degree. For example we are told that Hubble has discovered the most distant object ever seen, but we are not told how distant that object is. It's as though the narrative were written for people who just want to trip out on the images without being burdened with any specific knowledge.

Also annoying is the way the magnificent photos of the heavens are just displayed on the screen usually too quickly for any real contemplation and without detailed information about what is being shown or why it was photographed in the first place. ESA and NASA should have hired somebody knowledgeable to write an image-coordinated script for this that would inform and really entertain, and they should also have hired a professional to read the script, somebody with more enthusiasm and skill than Bob Fosbury displays. The images need to be explained so that we can understand what we are seeing. The clouds and nebulae, the points of light, the halos and the shapes are not self-explanatory. And when the images have been augmented or enhanced in some way, that needs to be explained as well. Some side by side contrasts between what is seen in the visual spectrum and, say, the infrared would be nice. Distances should be revealed.

There are two discs, one a DVD video, and another a CD audio which plays the soundtrack. There is a booklet full of statements like, "The planets of our Solar System have captured the imagination and interest of scientists and thinkers from the earliest times." Or, "Stars are social objects. They like to hang out together in star clusters or as large islands of stars..." This sort of empty expression or anthropomorphic nonsense is typical of what is heard on the video. It's as though the entire production was aimed at children. Actually what I think happened is the production was designed by a committee of ESA and NASA political types who just wanted to massage the public and were afraid that too many facts and numbers and ideas would simply turn them off.

It pains me to have to say this, because I love astronomy and cosmology, but shame on you ESA and NASA!
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19 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars European Space Agency Lays A Shiny Egg, 18 Jul 2006
Watched the first 30 mintues and NO PICTURES TAKEN BY THE HUBBLE! Just flashy computer animation, dramatic sythesizer music, talky British hosts and flying typefaces. I didn't rent this to learn the basics about the universe, sun and planets, I wanted to see photos taken by the Hubble and get a little backstory. The ESA really blew it on this one!
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10 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Informative, beautiful and a real pleasure to watch., 5 Oct 2006
I was skeptical about buying this at first as I'd never heard of it. I only wish I'd bought it sooner. After watching it I was very impressed by the amount of history and background information on the Hubble telescope. It goes into detail about how the telescope works, its initial teething problems and what they did to fix it. It then goes on to demonstrate the results achieved over the past 15 years showing 100s of the best and most interesting images as well as exploring the details behind the subject matter. As well as going into detail about the history, the documentary also presents information on the future of the telescope and it's eventual replacement in 2012 by the new Webb Telescope.. The production is very well presented in a professional and appropriate way by a British presenter and makes a refreshing change to some of the cheap, shallow efforts produced by the USA with grating American narration. Hubble 15 Years of Discovery would not be out of place among great productions such as the BBC Planets series. Among the extras are a screensaver / gallery featuring countless full screen images taken from Hubble.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Well worth spending a couple of hours of your life on
This dvd shows some fascinating facts and amazing images of outer space taken by Hubble. Not sure what Mr Young (above) is on about. Read more
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