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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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£1625


 
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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£195


 
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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£195


 
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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£195


 
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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£195


 
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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£195


 
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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£195


 
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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£195


 
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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£195


 
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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£195


 

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