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BBC Two 1969 1 season 13 eps TV-G Ended

Civilisation

1969 1 season 13 eps TV-G

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Season 1

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Season 1

50 min

S1 · E1 · Feb 23, 1969

The Skin of Our Teeth Episode 1

In this the first episode Clark travels from Byzantine Ravenna to the Celtic Hebrides, from the Norway of the Vikings to Charlemagne's chapel at Aachen, telling his story of the Dark Ages; the six centuries following the collapse of the Roman Empire.

8.0 · You

50 min

S1 · E2 · Mar 2, 1969

The Great Thaw Episode 2

In the second episode Clark tells of the sudden reawakening of European civilisation in the twelfth century . He traces it from its first manifestations in the Abbey of Cluny to its high point, the building of the Chartres cathedral.

8.1 · You

50 min

S1 · E3 · Mar 9, 1969

Romance and Reality Episode 3

Beginning at a castle in the Loire, then travelling through the hills of Tuscany and Umbria to the cathedral baptistry at Pisa as he examines both the aspirations and achievements of the later Middle Ages in France and Italy.

7.9 · You

50 min

S1 · E4 · Mar 16, 1969

Man: The Measure of all Things Episode 4

Visiting Florence, where, Clark argues, European thought gained a new impetus from its rediscovery of its classical past. He also visits the palaces at Urbino and Mantua, other centres of (Renaissance) civilisation.

8.0 · You

50 min

S1 · E5 · Mar 23, 1969

The Hero as Artist Episode 5

Here Clark takes us back to 16th century Papal Rome noting the convergence of Christianity and antiquity. He discusses Michelangelo, Raphael, and da Vinci, the courtyards of the Vatican, the rooms decorated for the Pope by Raphael, and the Sistine Chapel.

8.0 · You

50 min

S1 · E6 · Mar 30, 1969

Protest and Communication Episode 6

Here Clark takes us back to the Reformation. That is to the Germany of Albrecht Duerer and Martin Luther, the world of the humanitarians Erasmus, Montaigne, and Shakespeare.

7.8 · You

50 min

S1 · E7 · Apr 6, 1969

Grandeur and Obedience Episode 7

Again in Rome of Michelangelo and Bernini, Clark tells of the Catholic Church's fight against the Protestant north, the Counter-Reformation and the Church's new splendour symbolized by the glory of St. Peter's.

7.8 · You

50 min

S1 · E8 · Apr 13, 1969

The Light of Experience Episode 8

Here Clark tells of new worlds in space and in a drop of water that the telescope and microscope revealed, and the new realism in the Dutch paintings which took the observation of human character to a higher stage of development.

7.8 · You

50 min

S1 · E9 · Apr 20, 1969

The Pursuit of Happiness Episode 9

Here Clark talks of the harmonious flow and complex symmetries of the works of Bach, Handel, Haydn and Mozart — and the reflection of these in the Rococo churches and palaces of Bavaria.

7.8 · You

50 min

S1 · E10 · Apr 27, 1969

The Smile of Reason Episode 10

Here Clark discusses the Age of Enlightenment tracing it from the polite conversations in the elegant Parisian salons of eighteenth-century, through the subsequent revolutionary politics to the great European palaces of Blenheim and Versailles finally to Jefferson's Monticello.

7.8 · You

50 min

S1 · E11 · May 4, 1969

The Worship of Nature Episode 11

Belief in the divinity of nature, Clark argues, usurped Christianity's position as the chief creative force in Western civilisation and ushered in the Romantic movement. Here Clark visits Tintern Abbey, the Alps, and there discusses the landscapes of Turner and Constable.

7.8 · You

50 min

S1 · E12 · May 11, 1969

The Fallacies of Hope Episode 12

Here Clark argues that the French Revolution led to the dictatorship of Napoleon and the dreary bureaucracies of the nineteenth century and traces the disillusionment of the Romanticism artists is traced from Beethoven's, Byron's poetry, Delacroix's paintings to Rodin's sculpture.

8.0 · You

50 min

S1 · E13 · May 18, 1969

Heroic Materialism Episode 13

Clark concludes the series with his discussion of materialism and humanitarianism of the past century. This takes us from the industrial landscape of nineteenth century England to the skyscrapers of twentieth century New York. The achievements of the engineers and scientists - such as Brunel and Rutherford - having been matched by the great reformers like Wilberforce and Shaftsbury.

8.2 · You

13 episodes in Season 1

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