2012 Videos and DVDs

See what the History Channel has to say about the prophecies – and science – on the approach of 2012. A sampling of some of the best DVDs made on this fascinating subject.

2012: Science Or Superstition DVD

December 21, 2012: the end date of the sophisticated Long Count Calendar created by the ancient Maya in central America. Countless books and websites, magazine articles and newspaper headlines debate its meaning, with enthusiasts in two camps: those forecasting apocalypse the end of time and those who see a coming renewal, a rebirth of consciousness.

Adding fuel to the debate, some scientists see the increasing number of natural disasters in recent years as evidence of a catastrophic climax of events in 2012. How much of what we’re hearing is science and how much is superstition? In this film the leading researchers, writers and scientists in the field tell us exactly what this date means to them, why it s important, and what we should expect.

Featured in the film are Graham Hancock, John Major Jenkins, Daniel Pinchbeck, Alberto Villoldo, Anthony Aveni, Robert Bauval, Jim Marrs, Walter Cruttenden, Lawrence E. Joseph, Douglas Rushkoff, John Anthony West and Benito Vegas Duran.

Doomsday 2012 DVD

It is a doomsday that is foretold in the Mayan calendar, the Chinese oracle of the I Ching…even in an Internet-based prophetic software program: December 21st, 2012.

Is there any truth to the prophecy that the world will end on that specific date? And why do so many oracles throughout history seem to point to that same dreaded doomsday?

This fascinating special cuts through the myths and offers a fact-based examination of the Doomsday prophecy.

Nostradamus 2012 DVD

It’s a year that many have prophesied will bring a catastrophic end to life as we know it. Whatever is in store—a massive cosmic collision, a global environmental disaster, an Armageddon-like religious showdown, or a more subtle transformation—many believe that 2012 will mark a major shift in the history of our planet. But what is there to substantiate such fears? A detailed, historical investigation of this chilling prophecy is the mission of Nostradamus 2012, an exciting HISTORY special that casts the doomsday warning in a frighteningly modern context.

December 21, 2012 is bearing down on us with alarming speed. Whether or not we are able to collectively heed the warnings and affect a course to avert disaster may be the defining moment of the modern age.

BONUS FEATURES: Additional Footage: The Sun, The Egyptians, End of Time, The Hopi, and The Masons

Mayan Doomsday Prophecy DVD

Masters of time, the Mayans were also practiced prophets–and predicted that the world would end on December 21, 2012!

• DECODING THE PAST combines top scholarship and stunning travelogue.
• Walk the ruins of the great Mayan cities.
• See how the Mayans used their vast knowledge of astronomy to predict the future.

The world is coming to an end on December 21, 2012! At least, that’s the date predicted by the Mayans more than two thousand years ago. DECODING THE PAST peels back the layers of mystery and examines in detail how the Maya calculated the exact date of doomsday.

Breaking The Maya Code DVD

For a people to lose their history is a tragedy; to recover it, a miracle.

Breaking the Maya Code is the story of the 200-year struggle to unlock the secrets of the world’s last major undeciphered writing system. Based on archaeologist and historian Michael Coe’s book of the same title (which The New York Times called “one of the great stories of twentieth century scientific discovery”) and filmed in over 40 locations in nine countries, this amazing detective story is filled with false leads, rivalries and colliding personalities. It leads us from the jungles of Guatemala to the bitter cold of Russia, from ancient Maya temples to the dusty libraries of Dresden and Madrid.

The heroes of the story are an extraordinary and diverse group of men and women: an English photographer, a German librarian, a Russian soldier, a California newspaperman, an art teacher from Tennessee, and an 18-year-old boy immersed in the glyphs since early childhood. Surprisingly, the decipherment reveals not peaceful kingdoms but warring citystates in a long struggle for domination. The texts also reveal a strange world of kings and queens who regularly shed and burned their blood to invoke the Vision Serpent, a world shaped by an intricate cosmology that weaves together the lives of humans, the deeds of mythic heroes and the cycles of the planets and the stars.

For the six million Maya alive today, a people who had been cut off from their own extraordinary past, the decipherment is like a time machine – uniting them with their own lost history and opening up an invaluable treasure for all of us.