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Civilisations

The story of art from the dawn of human history to the present day—for the first time on a global scale. Inspired by Civilisation, Kenneth Clark’s acclaimed landmark 1969 series about Western art, this series broadens the canvas to reveal the role art and the creative imagination have played across multiple cultures and civilizations.

Genre: Documentary

Country: United Kingdom

Type: tv

Season: 1

Episode: 1

Duration: 1h 0m

Release: 2018

Rating: 7.8

1 "Second Moment of Creation"

2018-03-01

"A look at the formative role art and imagination have played in the forging of humanity."

2 "Episode 02"

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3 "Paradise on Earth"

01 Mar 2018

"Simon Schama looks into the artistic history of depictions of landscapes, both natural or idealized and man-altered. While often represented ad background, nature would only become a full ..."

4 "Picturing Paradise"

01 Mar 2018

"Religion is a major domain in art history, possibly from the start in cave paintings, with cosmogony, cultic and magical purposes, votive and funeral, even political practices. It could ..."

5 "The Triumph of Art"

01 Mar 2018

"The fifth film in Civilisations goes east and west with Simon Schama: to Papal Rome but also to Ottoman Istanbul and Mughal Lahore and Agra."

6 "First Contact"

01 Mar 2018

"Art plays a major part in recording or even shaping the cultural and general contacts between societies ad their civilizations. Sometimes it testifies to the lack of knowledge about ..."

7 "Episode 07"

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8 "Episode 08"

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9 "The Vital Spark"

2018-03-02