Civilisation
Episode 2: The Great Thaw
50 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland (Analogue)Latest broadcast: on BBC HD
Kenneth Clark traces the reawakening of European civilisation in the 12th Century. Show more
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50 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland (Analogue)Latest broadcast: on BBC HD
Kenneth Clark traces the reawakening of European civilisation in the 12th Century. Show more
50 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland (Analogue)Latest broadcast: on BBC HD
Sir Kenneth Clark visits Rome in search of grandeur and finds a city that gave rise to Michelangelo, Bernini and the Counter Reformation. Show more
50 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland (Analogue)Latest broadcast: on BBC HD
Classic 1969 series. Kenneth Clark looks at the re-establishment of civilisation in Western Europe after the fall of Rome. Show more
50 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland (Analogue)Latest broadcast: on BBC HD
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. Show more
50 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland (Analogue)Latest broadcast: on BBC HD
Kenneth Clark continues his personal reflections on civilisation with a look at Renaissance man. Show more
50 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland (Analogue)Latest broadcast: on BBC HD
Kenneth Clark continues his personal reflections on civilisation with a look at individuals of genius, notably Michelangelo, Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci. Show more
50 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland (Analogue)Latest broadcast: on BBC HD
Kenneth Clark investigates the Protestant Reformation in northern Europe. He looks at Holbein, Thomas Moore, Erasmus, the printing press and Durer.
50 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland (Analogue)Latest broadcast: on BBC HD
Kenneth Clark's story takes him from the Holland of Rembrandt and Vermeer to the London of Wren, Purcell and the Royal Society.
50 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland (Analogue)Latest broadcast: on BBC HD
Kenneth Clark reflects on the nature of the 18th Century music, and how some of its qualities are reflected in rococo architecture, the pilgrimage churches and palaces of Bavaria. Show more
50 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland (Analogue)Latest broadcast: on BBC HD
Kenneth Clark looks at the beginnings of revolutionary politics in the 18th Century. Show more
50 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland (Analogue)Latest broadcast: on BBC HD
Kenneth Clark examines a new force - the belief in the divinity of nature. Clark visits Tintern Abbey and the Alps, and discusses the landscape paintings of Turner and Constable. Show more
50 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland (Analogue)Latest broadcast: on BBC HD
Kenneth Clark traces the progressive disillusionment of the artists of the Romantic movement during the 19th Century. Show more
51 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC HD
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. Show more