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A dramatisation of a dinner party at the Baron d’Holbach’s house in Paris in 1770. The guests are Frederick the Great of Prussia, Diderot, Voltaire and Rousseau. The action takes place in the dining room...
Instructional programme. Eileen Atkins and Brian Cox introduce scenes from Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew, and Othello. They play all the roles, changing costumes and make-up. Between scenes they give...
Looks at the bush people of the Kalahari and their introduction to western civilisation. After centuries of living in their traditional way, gathering roots and fruit and hunting, (latterly in part of the...
Explores the civilisation of Greece throughout the period 1500-100 BC. Uses live photography, architectural reconstructions and works of art to recreate the country’s history. Explores Mycenae, Corinth,...
Depicts the struggle of Peter the Great to open up Russia - a landlocked nation - to the sea; and Catherine the Great’s desire to bring the values of Western civilisation into Russian daily life. The...
A series of ten one-hour programmes on ancient civilisations combining location filming, digital effects technology, and dramatisations to recreate rituals and events from the ancient world.
American television comedy western series loosely based upon Asa Mercer’s efforts to bring civilisation to old Seattle by importing marriageable women from the east coast of the United States in the 1860s,...
The series follows the team of archaeologists, forensic experts and historians known as No Man’s Land as they seek to find, recover and identify the fallen of the Great War. Each of the 5 programmes in the...
NoS Summary - Mass exercise demonstrations at a sports stadium in Japan. British Pathe synopsis: "The Youth of Nippon - one of the oldest yet youngest of Nations - eager to emulate western civilisation."...
COI synopsis: London Line visits a conference on the Manding culture of West Africa and the British Museum’s exhibition of Mading art held in London. In the studio the legend of the Lion King, founder of...
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