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Civilisation
Kenneth Clark''s landmark series
Date: 1969 - Certificate: UC
Content: 13 x 50 mins
Media Type: DVD
Distinguished art historian Sir Kenneth Clark presents a personal view of the ideas and values which have shaped western civilisation.
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The Fallacies of Hope
Civilisation: Episode 12
Date: 1969 - Certificate: UC
Content: 1 x 50 mins
Media Type: DVD
The French Revolution led to the dictatorship of Napoleon and the dreary bureaucracies of the 19th Century.
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Grandeur and Obedience
Civilisation: Episode 7
Date: 1969 - Certificate: UC
Content: 1 x 50 mins
Media Type: DVD
Lord Clark visits the Rome of the Counter-Reformation, when Michelangelo, Bernini and Giacomo della Porta produced their masterpieces.
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The Great Thaw
Civilisation: Episode 2
Date: 1969 - Certificate: UC
Content: 1 x 50 mins
Media Type: DVD
The sudden reawakening of European civilisation in the 12th Century is traced, from the first manifestations at the Abbey of Cluny to its high point - the building of the cathedral at Chartres.
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The Hero as an Artist
Civilisation: Episode 5
Date: 1969 - Certificate: UC
Content: 1 x 50 mins
Media Type: DVD
Papal Rome in the 16th Century, where Christianity and antiquity begin to converge, provides the focus for this look at Michelangelo, Raphael and da Vinci.
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Heroic Materialism
Civilisation: Episode 13
Date: 1969 - Certificate: UC
Content: 1 x 50 mins
Media Type: DVD
Lord Clark''s thoughts on the materialism and humanitarianism of the past 100 years take him from the English industrial landscape of the 19th Century to the towering skyscrapers of New York City in the 20th.
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The Light of Experience
Civilisation: Episode 8
Date: 1969 - Certificate: UC
Content: 1 x 50 mins
Media Type: DVD
The telescope and microscope revealed new worlds in space and in a drop of water. The realism found in Dutch painting took the observation of human character to a new stage of development.
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Man - The Measure of All Things
Civilisation: Episode 4
Date: 1969 - Certificate: UC
Content: 1 x 50 mins
Media Type: DVD
Lord Clark visits Florence, where European thought enjoyed new impetus by rediscovery of its classical past.
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Protest and Communication
Civilisation: Episode 6
Date: 1969 - Certificate: UC
Content: 1 x 50 mins
Media Type: DVD
Lord Clark explores the Reformation, travelling through the Germany of Albrecht Durer and Martin Luther, the world of Erasmus, the France of Montaigne, and visiting Shakespeare''s England in the reign of Tudor Queen Elizabeth I.
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The Pursuit of Happiness
Civilisation: Episode 9
Date: 1969 - Certificate: UC
Content: 1 x 50 mins
Media Type: DVD
The harmonious flow and complex symmetry of 18th-Century music - the compositions of Bach, Handel, Haydn and Mozart - are reflected in the best rococo architecture of that period, as seen in the churches and palaces of Bavaria.
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