The Huns - Storm from the East

From the back of the video:
Like the Huns of whom he was one and whom he led to victory after victory, Attila emerged from the mysterious depths of Asia. Why did he rage through Europe like a meciless forest fire only to disappear into histprical oblivion again soon afterwards? Where did the Huns come from, those Huns who the sources say rode day and night, slept in the saddle, ate raw meat and cut their faces with knives into terrifying masks. Historians have proved that the 'evil huns' were more than just a pillaging horde by reconstructing their civilisation - and a civilisation is what it was. How was it possible for a tribe of horseman to bring Europe to its knees? And who was this Attila whose mysterious death provided the sunject-matter for the Etzel legend in the Nibelungenlied?
The film centres on the legendary figure of the King of the Huns who seemed to be ambitious and powerful enough to attempt to subjugate the entire western world. The film looks at the contradictory image we have of Attila to trace the career of this historic warlord who within a few years created an empire which stretched from the Caucasus to the Rhine and from the Baltic Sea to the Apennines.
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Around 1995 Time Life's Lost Civilizations were released on video, there were intially 10 episodes which are listed on imdb here: www.imdb.com/title/tt0112054/...
These first 10 episodes are public domain and have been uploaded by Time Life here:
archive.org/details/lost-civi...
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These are readily available on VHS, there are always tapes of them selling for a few quid. But while browsing for them I stumbled across 14 further episodes. Now it's taken nearly 10 years for me to get all of them. The episodes I have now transferred for this channel are The Huns (7940111), Hannibal (7940112), The Vikings (7940113), Crete (7940114), Alexander the Great (7940115), Cleopatra (7940116), Nero (7940117), Ramses (7940118), Charlemagne (7940119), Richard the Lionheart (7940120), The Phoenicians (7940121), China's First Emperor (7940122), Akhenaten and Nefertit (7940123) and Nebuchadnezzar (7940124). The numbers in brackets refer to the code on the spine. These tapes do not have barcodes / ISBN numbers. Episodes of Lost Voices will follow at a later date.
I've used a JVC D560 with nicam bass boost on a few tapes and a Toshiba DVD-R recorder to transfer them to DVD. A couple of them have audio dropouts near the start and the odd flicker. If better versions become available I will replace them.

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A very good video!

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Thank you very much!

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If the HUNS had not DONE what they did, WESTERN Europe would be utterly different!@@ChrisSmedley