The Ultimate Guide To The Presidents [DVD]

Interesting fact about each president

Great documentary miniseries that has great facts. Although I like an early miniseries on the presidents the History Channel did before this called The Presidents. The two series present some different facts than the other. So if you really want to learn as much as possible about the presidents you will want both series. Personally I like both and own both. The older series I like because it did present some accomplishments of lesser known presidents like Chester Arthur that this one did not get into. Although this series goes more into the White House additions and renovations than the older series. The only thing about this one I would have liked more to see was more on the most recent three (Clinton, Bush 43, and Obama). After Bush 41 they did get into much detail individually on his successors.

Love the history i will watch it often.

My favorite documentaries are a little slower-paced and deeper, but this is a very glossy, appealing job of presenting main ideas and some very fine film clips. The pacing is sort of restless, but all linked to the voice-overs well. The special effects help to bring a vividness and motion to scenes long past (the effect creates a sort of 3D simulated panning across and around things made of composited stills, with some color enhancement). The speakers tend to be respected historians, though the style (if key history descriptions) is more "sound bite." This might play well on an introductory level to the young and to the cliche attention-hopping millennials, but I enjoy it alright, and I know the underlying history. If one had to have a single source on these subjects within this short time-span, one could do a lot worse than this.

While I haven’t watched the entire set yet, what I’ve viewed was very interesting, informative, and well produced. I stumped my history guru friend with some Andrew Jackson facts yesterday. - Now that’s something you don’t hear everyday! Bullwinkle J. Moose loves “The Ultimate Guide to the Presidents”!

Yes this is the one from the TV show that was on History Channel in 2013 I say this because there is at least one other History Channel show with a very similar name. it covers all of the presidents and has some cool things you may not know they all get about 9 mins before they go to a new one. Only issue I have is the end, they rush through almost to the point of skiping, Jimmy carter, Regan, Bush, Clinton, Bush jr and end with Obamas 1st term. All of them get like 2 to 3 mins tops of them just showing photos of them over and over while they talk about a few things they did. Other than the last episode every nice TV series love it.

I homeschool grandkids and I bought this series as a refresher course for presidents. It doesn't include Trump, but is still an excellent source of information. I enjoy the commenters better in this series than in others I have used. The others tend to use actors, sport characters and business along with history buffs. I prefer this one which relies only on professional commenters. My homeschool class spent 2 hours a week watching and enjoyed it. How often do you have teen boys asking for a history lesson? This series was well worth the money. Thank you.

Great content, physical condition brand new and factory-wrapped. No literature is provided to list Chapters or segment run-times, but that information can be found quickly through an online search engine. First disc and 1st chapter of disc 2 are all available on YouTube for free (#ultimateguidetotheprewidents). The remainder of disc 2 contains 3 chapters not available anywhere online immediately accessible on the big subscription-based streaming sites (1920-2013) and the History Channel’s website doesn’t mention anything past 1921 for this series... Disc 3 contains extra features touching on various themes such as Presidential personas, slavery, crises, and scandals.

Brilliant.My son[who is ten] and myself watch this documentry time and time again.

Provided an insight not usually found in the text books I studied in school ... brings history down to the level it should be looked at.