|  | Actors: Martin Sheen, Kristen Bell, Michael York, Tony Hale
Studio: Flat World Productions, LLC
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Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 21645
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), English (Published)
Platforms: Windows XP, Windows Vista
Rating: G (General Audience)
Edition: DVD
Region: 0
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 36 Minutes
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.3 x 0.6 x 7.6
ISBN: 1604615370
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781604615371
ASIN: 1604615370
Publication Date: 2008
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Flatland: The Movie October 9, 2008
Blaine L. Bosserman (York, Pa USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Flatland: The Movie I liked this movie, but this other movie is better: Flatland the Film
 Math Class 2-D Fun! September 19, 2008
Larry Boucher (Atwater, CA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Geometry class students loved it. It was entertaining and thought provoking. The web site has excellent activities that can fit the needs of kids at several grade and ability levels. Teachers need more of these "bells and whistles" to compete in today's techno society.
Helps overcome two dimensional thinking August 21, 2008
Steve Reina (Troy Michigan)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
"The book of nature is written in mathematics."
-- Galileo
From Euclid forward, mathematicians have kind of served as reality's accountants alterting us to mathematical truths and their impact on the lives we live.
That's why when a lifelong mathematician like Edwin Abbott Abbott takes the time to sit down and write book in parable form about a basic mathematical truth...well...it's probably worth our time to sit down and read it.
In Abbott's 1884 classic masterpiece Flatlands, Abbott told the story of A Square...a resident of Flatland who comes to discover the existence of the third dimension. For those who haven't yet read the book, I would recommend Ian Stewart's brilliant Flatland Annotated in which Stewart (himself a lifelong mathematician) verbatim goes through Abbott's book annotating it along the way with helpful explanatory tidbits and information. In some cases, Stewart's annotations explain Abbott's points in terms of the basic mathematics or history. In other cases, Stewart provides information about the development of mathematical theory since Flatlands was written.
In one line of developments, for example, Euclid's fifth postulate is overturned and in another the idea that any one mathematical system can find all mathematical truth is iself overturned...both significant findings. For more on these developments or other interesting math issues, you can turn to Stewart's follow up Flatterland, the Dover publications treatment on Mathematical Fallacies and Paradoxes or even the highly readable Choas, Coincidence and All that Math Jazz.
But for those not interested in reading but simple and quick exposition on the issues raised by Flatland, I would suggest this movie. For one thing, it slowly goes over the issues involved. The graphics are just wonderful. And for that matter so is the voice work by such notables as Martin Sheen and Michael York.
If like me this movie picks your curiosity please consider reading the following titles by way of follow up: The Fourth Dimension by Charles Hinton, The Fourth Dimension Simply Explained, Flatland Annotated, Flatterland, Sphereland, The Plainiverse, and finally Michio Kaku's Hyperspace. In so doing you'll discover that our world is more strange and fantastic than you ever thought and like A Square, you might just find yourself looking one dimension higher!
 Disappointment July 15, 2008
Luis E. Lewis (Close to my Rifles, USA)
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
Save your money and get the book. Another case of Political Correctness run amok. I should have know better.
Flatland: The DVD April 18, 2008
Gerald M Sturman (Bedford, NY USA)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Flatland: The MovieThis is a great and fun version of flatland that gives a great sense of reality to the concept and preserves the original sense of the book.
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