Ancient Impossible

2015

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7.5| 0h30m| TV-PG| en| More Info
Released: 29 June 2015 Ended
Producted By: Wild Dream Films
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.history.com/shows/ancient-impossible
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Ancient Impossible, the new H2 series, picks up where HISTORY’s long running Ancient Discoveries left off. In this next generation of storytelling, Ancient Impossible reveals how many of today’s technological achievements were actually developed centuries ago. Colossal monuments, impossible feats of engineering and technologies so precise they defy reinvention–the ancient world was far more advanced than we ever imagined. We’ll travel through history to reveal a radically different picture of the past, with innovations so far ahead of their time, they’re still in use today. New science uncovers a lost world more like our own than we ever suspected, and reveals how modern technology has its blueprint in the ancient world.

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Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.
Gutsycurene Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.
Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.
Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
Yahmose Rock I like this series. It does not only show what the artifacts are but it also shows how they were made with whys and wherefores. On the other hand, it is rather repetitive sometimes I end up with shouting "okay man I've had enough that's the third time you've said the same thing." It is informative. It has great visual quality indeed. But has it really got to be so loud? It is disturbing, bothering when it comes to its music and so on. Up to now it has showed almost everything I saw in the series of "Ancient Discoveries" being broadcast on History. At least it is not showing aliens of which we all have been quite sick and tired. I'm looking forward to the next episodes. We'll see what it's gonna turn to be.
pilarvick If you like ancient history and archeology, this show is for you. I loved the interesting information. All the presenters, with degrees to backed the information they were presenting, the great detail, how they explain and review all the hypothesis is amazing. I appreciate the explanations in plain English for people like me, that we are no mechanical knowledgeable, but in spite of that is easy for me to understand how some contraptions worked. Like with the Pantheon in Rome, was very enlighten the explanations how the concrete was made was surprising. This show is clearly for highly educated, cultured and scholarly audience. Thank you very much for such a stimulating show.
Had Enough I do not believe the English language has the words to describe the brain numbing boredom of this program. We have gotten used to documentaries repeating statements/facts....but this offering has taken it to a whole new level. Not satisfied with making the viewer feel like an idiot by repeating everything a couple of times...they decided that people are so dense or forgetful that they repeat EVERYTHING over and over and over and overrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr... In other words they take about 15 minutes of useful viewing and stretch it out to a soul destroying 60 minutes. Additionally, they show experiments performed by people who should never be allowed near anything more dangerous than a rubber spoon. They show a guy proving whether a steam cannon will work, and the idiot is standing right next to the pressure vessel which is sitting in a blazing fire...and there is absolutely no protection should something go wrong...and that is just one example. They then test the steam cannon on a derelict boat where they declare they are pushing the limits of safety by taking the pressure higher....guess what...yep, he is standing right next to it without even gloves or coveralls. He then fires the cannon manually, and succeeds in moving it all over the place, making it very obvious that the shot would miss the boat...however the scene changes and not only does he hit the boat but the boat explodes...amazing...considering he supposedly fired a five pound metal ball which even though it was magnezium would not explode. Now if you run the sequence in slow motion you can clearly see that the projectile which penetrates the wooden boat hull is in fact a cylinder and not the original ball...I am all for theatrics, but this is blatant bulls**t in a documentary which is supposed to have some scientific/historical value.....WARNING...do not allow your kids to watch this dangerous rubbish. As for the adults....if you watch this documentary, you will probably require resuscitation afterwards...and you will forever regret the missing 60 minutes of your life.

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