The Lost Civilizations of North America (DVD)

The Lost Civilizations of North America is a compelling, 63-minute documentary by award winning filmmaker Rick Stout. The film examines why most Americans have never heard about the remarkably advanced civilization that once existed anciently in the Heartland of North America. Emeritus Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History Roger Kennedy joins other scholars in explaining how this ancient civilization was lost to time through racial bigotry, misunderstanding, scientific agendas, and deliberate deceptions against the modern descendants of these ancient cultures. Expert historians, anthropologists, researchers, linguists, archeologists, and Native Americans tell the story of this once great civilization, which existed before, during, and after the 1st century BC and AD in North America. You'll learn how sites and artifacts were dismissed, ignored, destroyed, and even hidden away for more than a hundred years—effectively telling Native Americans (and the rest of u