DVD
Civilisation : a personal view by Lord Clark
Languages
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Performers
Narrated by Lord Clark.
Publication Information
[London] : BBC Worldwide Ltd. : 2 Entertain Video ; [New York] : BBC Worldwide Americas ; Burbank, CA : Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video, [2010]
Physical Description
4 videodiscs (ca. 670 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (35 p. : col. ill. ; 18 cm.)
Audience
Not rated.
Uniform Title
Summary
A sweeping survey of Western civilization tracing the interaction between man and art, philosophy, literature, music, and architecture between the fourth and twentieth centuries.
Notes
Title from disc surface.
"The complete series"--Container.
Originally broadcast on British television in 1969.
Special features: Sir David Attenborough remembers the making of Civilisation ; photo gallery of behind-the-scenes stills.
Contents
- The skin of our teeth
- The great thaw
- Romance and reality
- Man : the measure of all things
- The hero as artist
- Protest and communication
- Grandeur and obedience
- The light of experience
- The pursuit of happiness
- The smile of reason
- The worship of nature
- The fallacies of hope
- Heroic materialism.