Iran: Seven Faces of a Civilization, a documentary by Farzin Rezaeian (2007)

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/iran-seven-faces-of-civilization/
"Drawing on historical and archeological evidence, this fascinating documentary by Dr. Farzin Rezaeian reconstructs 7,000 years of Iranian history. The film's advanced animation techniques bring ancient wonders to life, giving an unprecedented look at Iran's historical and cultural achievements." In his accompanying book, Rezaeian has reconstructed the major monuments from seven key periods in Iranian history, bringing to life the settings in which Iranian civilization developed and the context through which the greatest figures of Iranian history, from Cyrus the Great (the Achaemenid Emperor) to Shah Abbas (the Safavid King), can be understood "Farzin Rezaeian is an award-winning documentary and educational film producer and director. For the past twenty years, he has researched and written for many educational and documentary films that he has produced or directed at Sunrise Film Productions"

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Iran
• civilization
• history
• Cyrus
• Achaemenid
• Shah
• Abbas
• Safavid

[DClightening]

Persia is Awesome!

[WalksThroughLife]

Informative

[mikebtko1]

i love this, they're really soulful people, such a wonderful place, thank you for sharing. And now we know where most the brains are, Persia! Algebra, decimal system, architecture, philosophy, spirituality, what don't these people tackle, such a thirst for knowledge, incredible!

[TheJustice456]

How is this the first world epire? Just like World baseball, its only played in U.S.A. A world empire, its a bloody big planet! What needs to be discussed is the fact that doco's confuse history. The Aboriginals have been in Australia for 80,000 years, I dont know of an Iranian flag over Australia.

[sss99929ify]

the real Iranian origin is from south Mongolia their faces , they got so many things from the sumarians in Iraq to develope their civilization even the zekorat .

[elsargente]

@Jocjabes

they gloss over alot of things because its such a short documentary, i would love to see a more in depth documentary by the same makers as this one. as far as your india comment goes, this documentery isn't about india, its about persia. and they never said that the pesians invented the decimal system, it said that they introduced the system to europe. your comments about the elamites are somewhat interesting, yet irrelevant to this film.

[crazymuthaphukr]

@ARDESHIRAN uhh no one cares what you have to say. Get out of here.

[Rahavin1]

I dont always rock out. But when I do, I watch Iran documentaries.

[antibattlefield3]

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[Jocjabes]

Good Video but biased. They gloss over the mathematics and arts contribution of east such as India. It gave them the numerals but they play it off like persians created it and gave it to europe.

Also, the lost wax technique of the Elamites is still very alive among dravidians in south asia. They use to produce the Nataraja statues still. Linguist McAlpin has suggested a link between languages of dravidians n Elamites. In fact the name for Sri-Lanka in tamil is Eelam.