Civilisation - Season 1

Civilisation - Season 1

Season 1

Network
DatesFeb 23, 1969 - May 18, 1969

Episodes

The Skin of Our Teeth
Season 1Episode 150 min

The Skin of Our Teeth

Sir Kenneth Clark begins his landmark 1969 series on the history of civilisation with the re-establishment of civilisation in Western Europe, in the tenth century after the fall of Rome to barbarism. He travels from Byzantine Ravenna to Celtic Hebrides examining aqueducts, cathedrals, the lives of the Vikings and of the Holy Roman Emperor Charlamagne.

Feb 23, 1969
The Great Thaw
Season 1Episode 250 min

The Great Thaw

Kenneth Clark presents the landmark arts documentary series first shown in 1969. This programme traces the reawakening of European civilisation in the twelfth century.

Mar 2, 1969
Romance and Reality
Season 1Episode 350 min

Romance and Reality

Kenneth Clark's personal view of the restoration of Western Civilisation from the fall of Rome to the twentieth century. In this episode he journeys from the Loire through Tuscany and Umbria, to the cathedral at Pisa, as he explores the aspirations of the later Middle Ages in France and Italy and looks at the work of Giotto and Dante amonst other artists.

Mar 9, 1969
Man - The Measure of All Things
Season 1Episode 450 min

Man - The Measure of All Things

Kenneth Clark continues his personal reflections on civilisation with a look at Renaissance man.

Clark visits Florence, where the resurrection of a classical past first gave a new impetus to European thought, and then journeys to the palaces of Urbino and Mantua, where the Renaissance manifested itself in glorious architecture.

He talks of Humanism and of perspective, of Donatello, Botticelli and Van Eyck.

Mar 16, 1969
The Hero as Artist
Season 1Episode 550 min

The Hero as Artist

Kenneth Clark continues his personal reflections on civilisation with a look at Papal Rome in the early 16th century.

Three great artists, Michelangelo, Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci are the chief protagonists in this programme. Clark's 'Individuals of Genius' theme takes him through the gardens and courtyards of the Vatican to the rooms decorated for the Pope by Raphael, and to the Sistine Chapel.

Mar 23, 1969
Protest and Communication
Season 1Episode 650 min

Protest and Communication

Kenneth Clark investigates the Protestant Reformation in northern Europe, and looks at Holbein, Thomas Moore, Erasmus and the printing press and Durer.

Mar 30, 1969
Grandeur and Obedience
Season 1Episode 750 min

Grandeur and Obedience

Sir Kenneth Clark presents one of the classic episodes of his history of the civilised culture of the western world. In this programme, he examines the Catholic world in the 16th century, especially the city ofRome which blossomed architecturally and sculpturally during the Counter Reformation under the hands of the baroque artist Bernini. This programme features the celebrated and stunning tracking shot through Raphael's Loggia.

Apr 6, 1969
The Light of Experience
Season 1Episode 850 min

The Light of Experience

Sir Kenneth Clark's story takes him from the Holland of Rembrandt and Vermeer to the London of Wren, Purcell and the Royal Society.

Apr 13, 1969
The Pursuit of Happiness
Season 1Episode 950 min

The Pursuit of Happiness

Kenneth Clark reflects on the nature of the 18th-century music, and on the way that some of its qualities are reflected in the best of rococo architecture.

Apr 20, 1969
The Smile of Reason
Season 1Episode 1050 min

The Smile of Reason

Kenneth Clark looks at the beginnings of revolutionary politics in the 18th century.

Apr 27, 1969
The Worship of Nature
Season 1Episode 1150 min

The Worship of Nature

Sir Kenneth Clark examines a new force - the belief in the divinity of nature.

May 4, 1969
The Fallacies of Hope
Season 1Episode 1250 min

The Fallacies of Hope

'Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive' wrote Wordsworth of the early days of the French Revolution, but the storming of the Bastille led, not to freedom, but to the Terror, the dictatorship of Napolean and the dreary bureaucracies of the 19th century.

Sir Kenneth Clark traces the progressive disillusionment of the artists of the Romantic movement through the music of Beethoven, the poetry of Byron and the sculpture of Rodin.

May 11, 1969
Heroic Materialism
Season 1Episode 1350 min

Heroic Materialism

To conclude this landmark series, Kenneth Clark considers the ways in which the heroic materialism of the past hundred years has been linked to an equally remarkable increase in humanitarianism. The achievementof engineers and scientists such as Brunel and Rutherford has been matched by the work of great reformers like Wilberforce and Shaftesbury. As Clark notes, the concept of kindness only became important in the last century.

May 18, 1969

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