This collection celebrates THE OPRAH WINFREY SHOW's 20th anniversary with a selection of the series' most memorable moments, introduced by Oprah herself.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16402 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-11-16
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Formats: Box set, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 6
• Running time: 806 minutes

DVD Description
Over 17 hours in a 6-Disc Collection including never-before-seen footage

•The Stars. The Stories. The Moments. An unprecedented six-disc collection celebrating the 20th Anniversary of THE OPRAH WINFREY SHOW one-on-one with Oprah Winfrey herself •See exclusive never-before-seen footage, never-before-heard thoughts and personal revelations, as Oprah takes a candid, open and intimate look back at all the most memorable moments of 20 years of history-making television •Get the inside story on Oprah’s all-time favourite guests, surprises, celebrities and the people that have touched Oprah’s heart forever

•Share Oprah’s personal perspective on the stories that made headlines, the interviews she’ll never forget and more!

•Plus, go on a personal tour of Oprah’s home, watch never-before-seen footage from the beginning years of THE OPRAH WINFREY SHOW, and take an exclusive look behind the scenes of A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE OPRAH WINFREY SHOW!

Synopsis
When Oprah Winfrey launched her Chicago-based television talk show in 1986, little did the American public know that the formerly impoverished Mississippi native would go on to become a hugely successful, one-woman entertainment industry with the power to shape the American cultural landscape. While early episodes of THE OPRAH WINFREY SHOW followed a Phil Donahue-style exploration of sensationalistic social issues, Oprah eventually transformed her series into a more positive, spiritually uplifting experience marked by book clubs, celebrity interviews, self-improvement segments, and philanthropic forays into world events. This collection celebrates THE OPRAH WINFREY SHOW's 20th anniversary with a selection of the series' most memorable moments, introduced by Oprah herself.

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Customer Reviews

Life-enhancing - simply the best!
So much talk-show television is just voyeurism at its worst but Oprah is consistently different. She aims to make a real human connection with her guests and viewers - not to exploit her interviewees, but to find out how she and we can learn and grow from their experience.

This 6-disc set is an amazing library of the most emotionally intelligent television on the planet. It is a terrific investment. It is life-healing, it will make you laugh, it will make you cry.

Catch the whisper
On January 29, 1954 Oprah Gail Winfrey was born. Oprah had a mountain of obstacles already in front of her as a newborn baby... she was born to unwed teenage parents, female, she was black, and she was poor.. not just poor...po!

Oprah's mother -an eighteen-year-old housemaid named Vernita Lee. Her father a twenty-year-old doing duty in the armed forces: his name - Vernon Winfrey.

For the first six years of her life, Oprah was raised on a Mississippi farm by her grandmother. Perhaps the first stroke of good luck for the young child. Oprah credits living with her grandmother probably saved her life.

At the age of six, her mother, Vernita Lee, decided that she could care for her young daughter and Oprah was sent to live with her in Milwaukee. From ages six to thirteen, Oprah stayed with her mother. She was raped by a cousin when she was nine years old and later molested by a male friend of her mother's and by an uncle. The young girl never told anyone about the abuse. Instead, she held her anger and pain inside and she rebelled. She repeatedly ran away and got into trouble.

Her mother decided to put her into a detention home. Fortunately for Oprah, she was denied admission to the home because there were no openings. So, in what may have been her second major stroke of good luck, she was sent to live with her father Vernon Winfrey in Nashville. Before she ceased her promiscuous and wild behavior, she became pregnant and gave birth to a stillborn baby boy when she was fourteen. The death of her baby devastated her and she vowed to turn her life around.

Oprah Winfrey began her career in 1973 in Nashville, Tennessee, as WTVF's youngest -- and first-ever African-American -- news anchor, before moving in 1976 to Baltimore's WJZ, where she took over the chat-fest People Are Talking in 1978.

In 1983, Winfrey moved to Chicago to host AM Chicago, which within three years would become The Oprah Winfrey Show, roll out nationally via syndication, to become what it is today.

On learning from life-- "And what I found is that every time you have to repeat the lesson, it gets worse. I call it God trying to get your attention. The universe trying to get your attention. "Sooo we didn't get your attention the first time. We are going to have to hit you a little harder this time." So I'm still doing it. I'm still learning.

And it seems worse because it gets worse. I say, the universe is always trying to get your attention. Sometimes it starts out -- any major problem you encounter -- as a whisper. By the time it gets to be a storm, you've had a pebble knock you upside the head; you've had a brick; you've had a brick wall; you've had a house fall down. And before you know it, you are in the eye of the storm.

But long before you are in the eye of the storm, you've had many warnings, like little clues. So now my goal in life is not to have to hit the eye of the storm, but to catch it in the whisper. To get it the first time. I think the thing, the one thing that has allowed me to certainly achieve both material success and spiritual success, is the ability to listen to my instinct. I call it my inner voice. It doesn't matter what you call it -- nature, instinct, higher power. It's the ability to understand the difference between what your heart is saying and what your head is saying. I now always go with the heart. Even when my head is saying, 'Oh, but this is the rational thing; this is really what you should do.' I always go with that little... feeling. The feeling. I am where I am today because I have allowed myself to listen to my feelings.

The six-disc collection follows her impressive career, starting with "The Beginning," which outlines the early days of her show; "Heartprints," offering her most emotionally affecting interviews; "Aha!," focusing on moments that provided lessons; and the "Stars, interviews with celebrities.

Harpo Productions, will donate its full share of the net profits from this DVD's sales to Oprah's Angel Network.

If you are like me, you will find many powerful moments in this collection.

For me personally, the big moment came after a Dr Phil segment. A woman was planning to commit suicide because she could not process her daughter's violent death 10 years before. Dr Phil turned it around by changing her focus. Then Oprah said afterwards: "I could see that shift in her perceptions."

I realised that that is all I needed to do, at any time, in any situation, is shift my perceptions, and I learned how to do that. Learning NLP offered me further insights into his exact strategy in the situation. I hope you find this review helpful.

I hope you find this review helpful.