Breaking the Maya Code

GENERAL INFORMATION
Release Info: 2008 Made for TV
Running Time: 1 Hour and 56 Minutes
Staring:  Documentary
Rating? Unrated
SPOILERS? YES

REVIEWS
IMDB: 7.5 of 10 Link
Rotten Tomatoes: Critics: N/A Audience: 75%
MY RATING: 10 of 10! Awesome

MY REVIEW:
Okay, full disclosure, I am a HUGE history and documentary nerd, so I went into this movie, knowing, neigh, believing that I would not only love it but learn something amazing. I was not disappointed.

Since, there is not really a plot-line, there can be no spoilers.

I was pleasantly surprised to find the film narrated by CCH Pounder. She lent a true voice to the production. I had read some about the Maya culture and knew that the Spanish had done some damage to their culture, but I had no idea the amount of information that was lost due to the Spanish conquest and their fervent religious beliefs.

The watcher begins with a guided informational  brief of the history of the Maya culture and their complicated artistic hieroglyphic, or glyphic, writing. Beginning in 1181, when an Englishman began to photograph the glyphs leading to more and more students of the culture into a desire to KNOW what it said.

Many years passed with very little understanding of the Maya language culminating in the greatest of all collaborative works that I have ever seen. The group of researchers were able to decode the Maya language and glyph system and reunite the modern Maya with their historic language.

I wholeheartedly give this documentary a full 10 Stars on the Michelle Scale of 1 through 10.