Civilisation
Kenneth Clark's landmark series tracing the development of civilisation.
- Factual
- Year 1969
- 1 Season
Kenneth Clark's landmark series tracing the development of civilisation.
- Year: 1969
E1 • The Skin of Our Teeth
Kenneth Clark looks at how European ideas and art survived the Dark Ages.
E2 • The Great Thaw
Kenneth Clark looks at the reawakening of European civilisation in the twelfth century.
E3 • Romance and Reality
Kenneth Clark journeys from the Loire through Tuscany and Umbria, to Pisa, as he explores the aspirations of the later Middle Ages in France and Italy.
E4 • Man - The Measure of all Things
Kenneth Clark continues his personal reflections on civilisation with a look at Renaissance man.
E5 • The Hero as Artist
Kenneth Clark continues his personal reflections on civilisation with a look at individuals of genius, notably Michelangelo, Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci.
E6 • 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.
E7 • Grandeur and Obedience
Sir Kenneth Clark visits Rome in search of grandeur and finds a city that gave rise to Michelangelo, Bernini and the Counter Reformation.
E8 • 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.
E9 • 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.
E10 • The Smile of Reason
Kenneth Clark looks at the beginnings of revolutionary politics in the 18th century.
E11 • The Worship of Nature
Sir Kenneth Clark examines a new force - the belief in the divinity of nature.
E12 • The Fallacies of Hope
Sir Kenneth Clark traces the progressive disillusionment of the artists of the Romantic movement during the 19th century.
E13 • Heroic Materialism
Kenneth Clark considers heroic materialism and humanitarianism in the past 100 years.
- Cast
Edwin Astley
- Crew
Michael Gill
Director
Peter Montagnon
Director
Ann Turner
Director
Peter Montagnon
Producer
Peter Montagnan
Producer
Kenneth Clark
Writer
