Title: Roy Chapman Andrews, the Real Indiana Jones
Product review: This is a fascinating documentary. You will find yourself glued to your seat as you watch Roy Chapman Andrews, the charismatic explorer (some say the character Indiana Jones was based on him), do everything in his power to study and claim magnificent dinosaur bones in the Gobi. There is actual footage from the 1920's as well as re-enactments in this superbly assembled documentary. The video adds wonderful insight into the American Museum of Natural History in its early days...going back to the time of President Teddy Roosevelt, who played a part in the museum's founding. The video also recounts Mongolian and Chinese history of this time. Many of these little known facts serve as a good background for what happened in China later with the advent of the communists and Mongolia's emergence as an independent nation. This documentary presents "Indiana Jones" for the person who wants to be informed as well as entertained.
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