Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness. Alain de Botton believes that the great thinkers' works are full of practical advice on happiness. In each episode, he takes one key philosophical figure and tries to apply their teachings to a common emotional problem ...more
Episode 1 - Seneca on Anger
Episode 2 - Schopenhauer on Love
Episode 3 - Epicurus on Happiness
Episode 4 - Montaigne on Self-Esteem
Episode 5 - Socrates on Self-Confidence
Episode 6 - Nietzsche on Hardship
The Art of Russia
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Art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon travels to Russia to reveal the history of the art of Russia in three episodes. First, he explores the origins of the Russian religious icon.. Then he shows how Russian art was affected by the change from a feudal nation to a hotbed of revolution. Finally he describes how art was at the forefront of throwing out 1,000 years of royal rule in Russia. BBC 4 - The Art of Russia
Episode 1 - Out of the Forest |
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The Art of Spain
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Art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon travels to Spain to reveal the history of the art of Spain in three episodes. First, hetravels from Cordoba to Granada looking at Moorish art. Then he investigates Spain's Golden Age of art of the 16th and 17th centuries. Finally he Reveals how the north of Spain produced some of the most dazzling art of the modern age. BBC 4 - The Art of Spain
Episode 1 - The Moorish South |
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The Art of Germany
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Art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon travels to Germany to reveal the history of the art of Germany in three episodes. First, he looks at the art of the German middle ages and Renaissance. Then he shows how artists were at the forefront of Germany's drive to become a single nation. Finally he describes how the dark times of 20th-century German art were dominated by failed artist Hitler. BBC 4 - The Art of Germany
Episode 1 - A Divided Land |
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The Man Who Walked Across the World series - 1 hour documentaries
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A series of documentary travelogues in which Tim Mackintosh-Smith follows in the footsteps of 14th Century Moroccan scholar Ibn Battutah, who covered 75,000 miles, 40 countries and three continents in a 30-year odyssey. These journeys covered almost the entirety of the known Islamic world and beyond, extending from North Africa, West Africa, Southern Europe and Eastern Europe in the west, to the Middle East, Indian subcontinent, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and China in the east, a distance readily surpassing that of his predecessors and his near-contemporary Marco Polo. ...more
Episode 1 - Wanderlust |
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The Story of God series - 1 hour documentaries
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Professor Robert Winston presents The Story of God , a definitive three-part documentary series on the history of mankind's quest to understand the nature of God. The Story of God is an epic 3 part journey across continents, cultures and eras exploring religious beliefs from their earliest incarnations, through the development of today's major world faiths and the status of religious faith in a scientific age. The series examines the roots of religious beliefs in prehistoric societies and the different ways in which humanity's sense of the divine developed....more
Episode 1 - Life, the Universe and Everything |
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The Power of Art series - 1 hour documentaries
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The power of the greatest art is the power to shake us into revelation and rip us from our default mode of seeing. After an encounter with that force,we don't look at a face, a colour, a sky, body, in quite the same way again....more
Episode 1 - Caravaggio Episode 2 - Bernini Episode 3 - Rembrandt Episode 4 - David Episode 5 - Turner Episode 6 - Van Gogh Episode 7 - Picasso Episode 8 - Rothko |
The Genius of Beethoven series - 1 hour documentaries
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The Genius of Beethoven is a 3 part docudrama of the life of the famous composer. Ludwig van Beethoven , (December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. He is considered to have been the most crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western classical music, and remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time. Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne ...more
Episode 1 - The Rebel |
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The Genius of Mozart series - 1 hour documentaries
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The Genius of Mozart is a 3 part docudrama of the life of the famous composer.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart(27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music. He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers...more
Episode 1 - Miracle of Nature |
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Great Map Mystery series - 25 minute documentaries
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Terry Jones' Great Map Mystery is a four-part television documentary series first broadcast on BBC Two Wales in 2008 and presented by ex-Python Terry Jones. ...more 1. The Road to Aberystwyth 2. The Road to St David's 3. St David's to Holywell 4. Chester to Holyhead |
Philosophy:A Guide to Happiness series - 25 minute documentaries
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Alain de Botton believes that the great thinkers' works are full of practical advice on happiness. In each episode, he takes one key philosophical figure and tries to apply their teachings to a common emotional problem
...more Episode 1 - Seneca on Anger Episode 2 - Schopenhauer on Love Episode 3 - Epicurus on Happiness Episode 4 - Montaigne on Self-Esteem Episode 5 - Socrates on Self-Confidence Episode 6 - Nietzsche on Hardship |
Guns, Germs and Steel series - 55 minute documentaries
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Based on Jared Diamond's Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same name, Guns, Germs and Steel traces humanity's journey over the last 13,000 years – from the dawn of farming at the end of the last Ice Age to life in the twenty-first century.
Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this groundbreaking book, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns....more
Episode 1. Out of Eden |
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Human, all to Human series - 50 minute documentaries
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Human, All Too Human is a 3 parts series that follows the lives of three prominent philosophers; Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, and Jean-Paul Sartre....more Friedrich Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil Martin Heidegger - Design for Living Jean-Paul Sartre - The Road to Freedom |
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The Silk Road series - 50 minute documentaries.
| For thousands of years, the fabled Silk Road, as travelled by Marco Polo, was the link between the peoples of Europe and the vast riches of China....more | ||
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1 - "Glories Of Ancient Chang An" 2 - "1000 KM Beyond Yellow River" 3 - "Art Gallery in the Desert" 4 - "The Dark Castle" 5 - "Search of Kingdom of Lou-Lan" 6 - "Across Taklamakan Desert" |
7 - "Khotan-Oasis of Silk and Jade" 8 - "A Heat Wave Called Turfan" 9 - "Through Tian Shan by Rail" 10 - "South Through Tian Shan" 11 - "Where Horses Fly Like the Wind" 12 - "Two Roads to the Pamirs" |
The Strange Days on Planet Earth series - 50 minute documentaries
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Around the globe, scientists are racing to solve a series of mysteries. Unsettling transformations are sweeping across the planet, and clue by clue, investigators around the world are assembling a new picture of Earth...more 1 - Invaders 2 - One Degree Factor 3 - Predators 4 - Troubled Waters |
