TV-G
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The first program in this 13-part documentary series covers the Dark Ages, from AD400 to AD1000.
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The sudden re-awakening of European civilisation in the 12th century is traced by Sir Kenneth Clarke to its high point - the building of the Cathedral of Chartres.
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Sir Kenneth Clark explores the aspirations and achievements of the gothic world, on a journey from a castle on the river Loire in France to the cathedral baptistry at Pisa in Italy.
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Kenneth Clarke visits the Italian palaces of Urbino and Mantua, which were centers of the Renaissance.
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Kenneth Clarke visits Papal Rome to explore the work of 16th-century artists Michelangelo, Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci.
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Examining protest and communication, Kenneth Clarke explores the Reformation - Luther and Durer's Germany, and Shakespeare's England.
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Kenneth Clarke discusses the glory of Rome during the Counter-Reformation.
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Kenneth Clarke discusses the importance of light in 17th-century Dutch painting, and the rapid pace of scientific discovery in the London of the Royal Society.
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Kenneth Clarke looks at the rococo style in 18th-century music and architecture.
S1 • E10
Kenneth Clarke discusses the 18th-century Age of Reason.
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Kenneth Clarke discusses changing views of God and nature in the 18th century.
S1 • E12
Kenneth Clarke traces the disillusionment of the artists of the Romantic movement.
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Kenneth Clarke shows how the heroic materialism of the past 100 years has been linked with an increase in humanitarism.
Self - Narrator
Hamlet
Gravedigger
Horatio
King Lear
Macbeth
Poetry reader