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Galapagos, Easter Island, British Isles, Ireland and Hawaii
ON THESE RUINS travels across the United States and to distant lands in search of vestiges from past societies and civilizations, which help to explain and understand the peoples of the world. Each program explores the ruins of a distinct culture and place where uniqueness and mystery frequently melt into one. Often, the past meets the present as contemporary inhabitant's wander through remnants of antiquity so that a multi-view glimpse of the topic and locale enhances the experience. Each program was written with facts and information, but with enough poetic license to allow imaginations to soar and alight with wondrous conclusions. Photography allows for comparisons between the spoken and the illusive. The narrator leads the theme as it twists and turns through the tunnels and excavations of ancient times. Galapagos There are ruins where intellectual achievement and inspired concepts have profound consequences on contemporary societies, without the shadows of human laid visages. The Galapagos Islands are one such place. The islands, the animals, the sea life, the ruins are explored in this voyage to where a naturalist conceived a thought, which would challenge the beliefs of modern times. Easter Island Easter Island, or Rapa Nui as the inhabitants call it, is composed of volcanic lava situated over two thousand miles from its mother country of Chile. It is one of the most isolated regions on earth. Many mysteries surround the island called the 'naval of the world', where giant statues, built by an ancient people, face away from the Sea in a silent mockery as to their origins, and the cult of the birdmen lived high above the Rano Kao's crater. British Isles For over six thousand years of struggle, strife, and development, the British Isles, consisting of islands around England, Ireland and Scotland, have been peppered with puzzles, reflected through the ruins, left scattered across these rocky and often isolated places. Ireland From the five thousand year old Skara Brae in Scotland through the passage grave of Maes Howe a few miles way to the Stones of Callanish on the largest island in the Outer Hebrides, from the heights of Dun Aengus in Ireland and through the beehive shaped huts of an Abbey on Skellig Michael Island, one of Europe's oldest prehistoric monuments, through the abandoned island of St. Kilda to a desolate area believed to be a base for the Viking ships over a thousand years ago, the ruins lie beneath the feet of contemporary explorers. Hawaii Ruins of once sophisticated communities can be discovered in isolated regions, cut off, removed from more formidable societies where advancement of skills and customs were products of interchange with others. The Big Island of Hawaii is one such example. The Big Island of Hawaii developed through an isolated culture, which thrived by devising its own customs, advancing, growing, conquering, and then leaving its mark on ruins of past greatness, to be picked through by later inhabitants.
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2009 DVD Releases
Africa
Canada
