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Show Name....... Civilisations
Rating.......... 7 [*******---]
Premiered....... 2018-02-28
Type............ Documentary
Genre........... History
Plot............ Civilisations explores the visual culture of societies from around the globe, revealing alongside the magnificent objects made in the West the wealth of treasures created by other cultures, from the landscape scrolls of classical China and the sculpture of the Olmecs to African bronzes, Japanese prints and Mughal miniatures.
Cast............ Simon Schama ... Presenter
Cast............ Mary Beard ... Presenter
Cast............ David Olusoga ... Presenter
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Network......... BBC iPlayer
Country......... United Kingdom
Language........ English
Runtime......... 60 mins
Status.......... Ended
Air Date........ Thursday 21:00
URL............. http://www.tvmaze.com/shows/34897/civilisations
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Episode Name.... The Vital Spark
Season.......... 1x09
Plot............ Simon Schama begins Civilisations with this premise: that it is in art - the play of the creative imagination - that humanity expresses its most essential self: the power to break the tyranny of the humdrum, the grind of everyday. Art, then, makes life worth living; it is the great window into human potential. And societies become civilised to the extent that they take culture as seriously as the prosecution of power, or the accumulation of wealth. But in the century of total war and industrial slaughter was (and is) that enough? The cause of humanity went up in the smoke of the Nazi crematoria. Horror and terror brushed beauty aside and stamped on its pretensions. And in the modern world art has become increasingly commodified.Simon's last programme explores the fate of art in the machine and profit-driven world. It looks at the rise of art as a tradeable commodity and turns on one central question: should art create a realm separate from the modern world, a place where we can escape and pull the ladder up after us? Or should it plunge headlong into the chaos and cacophony while transforming the way we see it and live in it? Using the works of both dead and contemporary artists of the 20th and 21st Simon seeks answers to these profound questions.His conclusion is imbued with hope: despite all the travails of the present, by engaging with the here-and-now art still offers civilisation an insight into the incomprehensibility of the world and a way to transcend its horrors with the enduring creativity of the human spirit.
Runtime......... 60 mins
Air Date........ 2018-03-01 Thursday, 16:00
URL............. http://www.tvmaze.com/episodes/1419052/civilisations-1x09-the-vital-spark
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Episode Name.... Second Moment of Creation
Season.......... 1x01
Plot............ The first episode looks at the formative role that art and the creative imagination have played in the forging of humanity itself. As time passes the elements of civilisation are assembled: written language, codes of law, and expressions of warrior power forged in metals. And humanity begins to produce art not just for ritual, as Simon discovers in Minoan civilisation.But how do such cultures arise and how do they fall? Simon travels to the civilisations of Petra in the Middle East and the Maya in Central America to answer those questions. He finds that ultimately civilisations depend on humanity's relationship with the environment for their survival, and while all believe in their own continuity, all are doomed to fall.
Runtime......... 60 mins
Air Date........ 2018-03-01 Thursday, 16:00
URL............. http://www.tvmaze.com/episodes/1411069/civilisations-1x01-second-moment-of-creation
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