A missed opportunity
Considering the hundreds upon of hundreds of films, trailers and TV shows that Mill Creek has in their archive you'd think putting together a retrospective like this would be a cinch for them. Unfortunately this "documentary" is very much like the WW2 Remembered DVD set I reviewed a while back. The packaging is fantastic and if you were going by the DVD cover alone you'd be forgiven for thinking that you're about to take a 90 minute stroll down memory lane. This "film" starts out well enough but then it's almost like Mill Creek gave up and just decided to run some government/industrial films from the era in their entirety. In this 70's set we get vintage short films about Apollo 13, Earth Day, the Energy Crisis, Watergate and the Bicentennial. I call them "short" film but some go on for a good 15-20 minutes. Anyone who lived through the 70's knows that a heck of a lot more than those aforementioned 5 events happened. After that (which takes up the bulk of the running time) we get a...
Learn Americian History
you really learn about the 70's and how we got along before the internet. how life was simple and people actually worked and lived and got out to really meet people without electronic devices.
Waste of time...
This DVD is complete crap. It's basically 2 hrs of stock news footage. Mill Creek is such a ghetto company they couldn't show anything popular. Why do a documentary on the 70's if you don't talk about film or music. The historical stuff is important but 2 hrs of stock news footage with horrible narrative? Lame. Fail.
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