It's also currently being repeated on BBC Four, strangely enough. I think they have got to episode 7, so far, but I assume this will mean it is soon to be available in full on the iplayer. I was very surprised, as I thought they didn't approve of such things as Western Civilisation.
@farmbrough3 ай бұрын
@@PrincipledUncertainty I'm told they have put popular historian Mary Beard at the beginning of it to tell us that it doesn't reflect contemporary BBC values.
@andrewstevenson1183 ай бұрын
I have all the DVDs. (Remember those?) 🙂
@nevillegibb3 ай бұрын
This is what Television should be like.
@AndreyRubtsovRU2 ай бұрын
Television can and should be many different and equally good things. Dont forget to take your pills, grandad. But. We love you still.
@ph80772 ай бұрын
@@AndreyRubtsovRU Disrespectful & bitter woke runt...you can swap out the 'r' in runt if you like.
@lindasue8719Ай бұрын
@@AndreyRubtsovRU one does not need to be old to recognize true art.
@tombarac8253Ай бұрын
@@AndreyRubtsovRU fix yourself. 😅
@silvijepranjic19763 ай бұрын
As I listen at this noble, measured and erudite art history professor, I feel a mixture of joy and sadness. Joy because K. Clark opened my eyes (there in the eighties when I was a curious boy) and showed me the magnificent achievements of Western Christian civilization. Sadness because the mass media, academics, entertainment industry and politicians compete to belittle, ridicule, destroy and deny our common roots and achievements. As a proud Westerner, stubborn Catholic and middel-aged art historian I can only say: God, how low we have fallen.
@fritula62003 ай бұрын
Silvije Pranjič.... BRILLIANT... l agree.... so sad
@radman11363 ай бұрын
Low? For a bunch of monkey troops forced out of the trees and onto the savannah 250k years ago because of climate change; I think we've done spectacularly better than we had a right to expect. We've just run out the string. The traits that enabled our original survival, turn out to be downright suicidal now.
@WizardofOdd-ws3wg3 ай бұрын
@@radman1136 Deus Vult Little Man What Now?
@WizardofOdd-ws3wg3 ай бұрын
@@radman1136 The destruction is deliberate the aim is global slavery enforced by AI.The fall is from within via prole infighting.
@CommonSpiritualGround3 ай бұрын
Kierkegaard's leveling
@johnlawrence27573 ай бұрын
UK television had just gone over to colour and this was a monumental celebration of this transition
@Venmaylove2 ай бұрын
Pics, or it didn't happen!
@haltungsprechen2 ай бұрын
now they show coloureds on the color!
@johnlawrence2757Ай бұрын
@@haltungsprechen as long as they don’t run, eh?
@jamesline5103Ай бұрын
@@sgtplop23 years. It is a great piece of television.
@Hascienda275 күн бұрын
Lets go back to black and white
@timheydon1131Ай бұрын
Clark is in himself a work of civilisation. Elegant, intellectual, cultured, refined, he is the epitome of what it means to be a civilised human being and gentleman. .
@EricLehner2 ай бұрын
The relevance of Clarke’s comments to the 2024 reality is astonishing.
@tmcboston123 күн бұрын
YES. Western Civ is like forbidden knowledge now.
@YouhavetoBelieve334716 күн бұрын
Uk is on the brink of civil war now. Riots in almost all major cities and muslim mobs mobilizing
@aimhigh37012 ай бұрын
What a wonderful gentleman. I am so proud of my European ancestors.
@zibberebbiz2 ай бұрын
same here, as long as we ignore all the colonialism and slavery
@HumanophageАй бұрын
@@zibberebbiz Why is it OK for Mongolians to be proud of the much more barbaric Genghis Khan, but Europeans must be not proud of conquering the world?
@casteretpolluxАй бұрын
His wife was addicted to gin and hid it in unsuitable vessels top to bottom of the castle.
@glenlivet9394Ай бұрын
@@zibberebbizoh shut up.
@ferrumlynx191429 күн бұрын
@@zibberebbiz That has been a bi product of all the big ones.
@gregory-of-tours3 ай бұрын
I love how he starts almost mid thought. No 10 minute montage describing where the presenter is from and all the places he will go. Right into it.
@Keranu23 күн бұрын
I find introductions to be so annoying and boring. I like this.
@TomFynn23 күн бұрын
And also no "going on a journey" BS.
@tomaseriksson54303 ай бұрын
This whole production is like a meditation
@Odowasaniceguy3 ай бұрын
That Greek poet kavafis... What a mind. "The barbarians.. they were a kind of solution "
@tuckerbugeater3 ай бұрын
@@Odowasaniceguy still better than being an erudite betabux simp
@nectarinedreams72083 ай бұрын
@@tuckerbugeater It's truly amazing to know there is a person alive on this planet who would use the term "betabux" unironically. What a fascinating creature you are. You should be in a tank in some exhibit somewhere.
@dtaylor9393 ай бұрын
This might be one of the very best television productions of all time.
@DaveSCameron3 ай бұрын
Certainly recreates the incessant adverts from back then on ITV! Smfh
@taxpayer10403 ай бұрын
Jacob Bronowski was also one of these makers of just perfect (Imho) programmes - Carl Sagan also good.
@catallaxy3 ай бұрын
Yes, I see your point but, for me the greatest is still Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister!
@andrewstevenson1183 ай бұрын
@@catallaxy You may say that, but I couldn't possibly comment.
@RyanPerrella3 ай бұрын
@@taxpayer1040the Ascent of Man is one of my favorites too, Bronowsky was awesome!
@TomFynn3 ай бұрын
Back then, when documentaries had actual *information* in them.
@LessieHorak2 ай бұрын
This series is stunning. I was smitten as a teenager when I watched it when it came out and it's always held a special place in my heart.
@dorianphilotheates37693 ай бұрын
Well, that was edifying - now, back to ‘The Kardashians’ three-day marathon...
@johnjones66013 ай бұрын
Hahaha
@jimb90633 ай бұрын
I initially thought this was going to be a critique on Sid Meier's tech tree choices...
@yrobtsvt2 ай бұрын
Time to go back to my three hour Philosophy Tube video about pronouns
@hortenseweinblatt15082 ай бұрын
Redneck Haiku: Set your VCRs! / "Dukes of Hazzard" marathon / Starts at 8 p.m.
@danielgregg2530Ай бұрын
Don't make us throw up.
@VivieLeigh3 ай бұрын
The first ten minutes are pure genius, it describes and explains everything about civilisation’s life cycle, how civilisation’s ethics and principles are put into art. It describes our modern times perfectly as well. This must be shown to every person since childhood, for it is a solid base for future taste development.
@cthoadmin74583 ай бұрын
Yes, and he makes the point that it may seem mighty and permanent but can all be lost so quickly.
@gordonbryce2 ай бұрын
@@cthoadmin7458 Yes, and after the demise of prog. rock, civilization has fallen in much of the West-a new dark age of tattooed, feckless low achievers, or Greenies dictating our expensive futures-see episode two above and the cycle of warming and cooling that the Greenies ignore. Who is right, wrong?
@sirsaint882 ай бұрын
Here we are in 2024 and western civilization seems to be on its deathbed.
@0ldarАй бұрын
Only bad part is that for one civilization to prosper, it seems it must be at the detriment to all others, eh?
@robertemerson609021 күн бұрын
What a generous gift he has left for us. Much gratitude for his connoisseurship , humanity, and subtle wit .
@rodrigonegreteprieto82426 ай бұрын
The first time I saw Civilization documentary I was a kid. The Spanish dubbing was great in the wonderful voice of the late Mexican American actor Claudio Brook. Then as a young adult I saw it again carefully admiring Clark’s dogma-free phrases, elegant, calm, and not less insightful which was his trademark. Now at 63 years old I saw with deep sadness how both America and Western Europe mainstream opinion often repudiate their cultural heritage instead of being deeply grateful for that. Some intellectuals such as Adorno, Marcuse et al. put in motion all this followed by French postmodernist (I think Clark was aware of that trend at the time). The toxic mania of making sociology about everything became colleague syllabus and then in the following decades those attitudes spread all over institutions and society in a sort of trickle down effect. Despite their convoluted theoretical views cannot be popular by themselves, the attitudes those intellectuals pushed for are what counts at the end to the point of becoming common place these days. Most of these Uber critics and repudiators do not realize that deep down they took western civilization benefits for granted; they simply cannot imagine a world with a different set of assumptions. I know very well what I’m talking about. Greetings from Mexico.
@rickyspeople4 ай бұрын
So true Rodrigo. So much of how we feel is affected by the perpetual ego-shield that is hubris
@paulmckenna62473 ай бұрын
Commonplace among a small, hysterical minority. Influential only if you allow them to be so.
@redcrowdemon3 ай бұрын
Hear hear!!! Cultural Marxism is a poison infecting our whole public discourse. I remember watching this too, in the innocent days when we were not called ‘far right bigots’ for loving our Western culture!
@terenceflanagan12253 ай бұрын
We just call them marxists
@williammorris5843 ай бұрын
They take the benefits of Western civilization for granted, and don’t think it will disappear if they repudiate it.
@jeffreystreeter538123 сағат бұрын
A real, cultured, urbane gentleman's voice. A thing of the past.
@filmic1Ай бұрын
I love this series. I worked in a university AV library and borrowed the whole set over holidays. Amazing.
@johnrudy94043 ай бұрын
We may be at the precipice again. Thank you for this.
@LactatingFly10 сағат бұрын
well into it
@lorihenderson6733 ай бұрын
I watched as a nine yr old. Thanks mum
@davyroger37733 ай бұрын
This series is dripping with culture!
@damianhoratiu22872 ай бұрын
Too excellent a series to be shown today.
@paulannable37342 ай бұрын
It is being shown today on BBC4. So there’s that.
@Hoosier7653 ай бұрын
Confidence in one's neighbors, and the desire to improve life for others is civilization
@alastairgreen20773 ай бұрын
one's
@FSVR543 ай бұрын
disagree on the latter
@Hoosier7653 ай бұрын
Ya, it's probably too broad of a term and could mean anything.
@FSVR543 ай бұрын
@@Hoosier765 I think infrastructure has to be part of the definition. we'd still be in the jungle
@lanceash3 ай бұрын
I read Clark's autobiography years ago. He said something in it that I have found true again and again. He said he thought that the level of civility in a room went down when the men went off with the men and the women went off with the women. We need more civil interaction between men and women. That's civilization too.
@TheJoshuamooney29 күн бұрын
A legendary series. My parents had the book. I can’t believe how long ago this was. Still magnificent though.
@thomasdequincey58113 ай бұрын
"The Romanesque Carvers were like a school of Dolphins" - what a quote!
@mattijsglasАй бұрын
I've only seen the first ten minutes but I'm already happy the algorithm brought me here.
@lordscrewtape28973 ай бұрын
Someone once asked Sir Kenneth Clark what inspired him to do civilization...he said civilization is superior to barbarism and someone ought to say so. 😎
@RyanPerrella3 ай бұрын
Great line ❤
@MAKOBITE3 ай бұрын
Too bad he could never acknowledge the full barbarity of Western civilization. Some of the things he says are naive to the point of being offensive, or else just smugly offensive. I realize it was 50 years ago but not everyone was that blinkered or unwilling to see the lacunas and flaws in his "timeline". The reason to watch this whole video is to see how different the places featured looked at that time compared to now. I could weep for the amount of birdsong you can hear in the background, for example. Now it's all gone silent, the villages and old ways of life completely disappeared. Developments and pollution have taken over where in those days nature flourished untroubled by neoliberalist expansionism. I also wonder what someone who could say "cap-IT-alism" would think of Sunak's post-Brexit England. Surely even he'd have to admit British "civilization" was a thing of the unrecoverable past.
@JAI_83 ай бұрын
@@MAKOBITEWestern civilization isn’t barbaric. The west has been struggling to grow out of its obsession with principles of adopting monarchic, aristocratic, or oligarchic leadership. Century after century western ruling classes continue to adopt essentially selfish economic systems, as they still remain intoxicated by the privilege entailed by the conviction of their essential aristocracy, however they believe they have come by it, and have adopted such ever more clever and exploitative economic systems to enforce the socio-economic hierarchy that enables their rule. Western egalitarian justice and secular political values have been slowly growing and struggling to overcome the hierarchical aristocratic values and superstitious religions that help reinforce the hierarchy under the influence of the western truly civilizing thinkers. It’s the west that has brought these civilizing values into the world in the first place, in dialectical opposition to the ideology of the ruling class. The fact that we still struggle to overcome the exploitative values of hierarchies enforced by violence shouldn’t be mistaken for the essential nature of western civilization itself, nor should it be assumed that other cultures have some moral or ethical superiority to the west due their having solved these problems already and being the innocent victims of western barbarism. The west’s advanced material and economic technologies simply makes the impact of the failures of the west to have yet to defeat its own hierarchical aristocratic impulses to be so much more profound. Other cultures have also developed hierarchical and exploitative social structures, sometimes highly sophisticated and brutal ones. In fact the west seems to be unique so far in inventing the notion of “progress”, part of which is the encouragement of increased egalitarian social justice to overcome the aristocratic impulse itself.
@MAKOBITE3 ай бұрын
@@JAI_8 Uh huh. As I don't waste time on internet comments I'll leave you to your delusions of western grandeur as the sun sets on humanity.
@c4call3 ай бұрын
The barbarians replaced the exhausted energy of the romans, as the romans replaced the exhausted energy of the Greeks.
@ScottMannion3 ай бұрын
Great service you're providing here.
@Ally-StaffyLover3 ай бұрын
Thank you Douglas. What a little gem.
@davidt11683 ай бұрын
Why "Thank you Douglas" ?
@firstnamelastname21973 ай бұрын
@@davidt1168 ugh douglas murray i think
@davidt11683 ай бұрын
That's what i thought too. Just wondering.....
@Ally-StaffyLover3 ай бұрын
Yes, Douglas Murray. I have added the details in my playlist in the description where to watch the rest of the files from 6-13. Enjoy
@Brandalar3 ай бұрын
Thanks to the bbc and their decision to meddle with this, to change and put warnings on it because it doesn't meet with modern "sensibilities", I rediscovered this masterpiece, and then immediately forked out for a bluray copy. It doesn't not get better than this, to teach our story, our history.
@nectarinedreams72083 ай бұрын
If Clark were alive today he'd probably be in favour of said warnings.
@Brandalar3 ай бұрын
@@nectarinedreams7208 He was a man of his time and it's impossible to think what he would have thought of today. Such a series would not even be made today as this is the the brave nu-bbc and they all follow the script nowadays, and they have learnt absolutely nothing from the series he made in the late 60s as western society repeats late Rome.
@tamaragorman74213 ай бұрын
What a gem! Thank you for sharing.
@andrewfoster8833 ай бұрын
Unlike the BBC, there is no need here for trigger warnings! Great series
@notorioushsg13 ай бұрын
What a disgrace the west has become. Meek and weak. We have allowed the left to essentially take over. We need to speak up and fight back or we lose what so many died for.... freedom.
@duffy50793 ай бұрын
Bah! 🤖
@randyt35583 ай бұрын
Why? Do trigger warnings trigger you?
@andrewfoster8833 ай бұрын
@@randyt3558 You have a searing wit. Thank you, Oscar Wilde
@paulolira6443Ай бұрын
Great documentary!! Thank you for sharing. One of youtube treasures.
@jonweber.8.7562 ай бұрын
Such a great series -- thanks for the upload!
@mateobravo921225 күн бұрын
Thanks for putting this series up, hombre. It does rather put one's day to day problems in their place and remind us of what continues to makes the West great. "Salve" from rural Spain, where the olive oil still flows on terraces built under the Romans.
@13garage._3 ай бұрын
we definetely stepped down as a civilization since 1969
@craigpoer3 ай бұрын
Life now is unrecognizable. Hard to believe in 50 years how much has changed
@alastairgreen20773 ай бұрын
definitely
@tuckerbugeater3 ай бұрын
@@craigpoer Bring back the 1550s. God bless the real Queen Mary.
@SC-gw8np3 ай бұрын
since the French revolution.
@HeegooatАй бұрын
@@craigpoernot true at all. There haven't been any major scientific discoveries since the 70s. Maths is dead, physics is dead,philosophy is dead. We now have institutes that govern these fields and have a monopoly of any new discovery. Think of going to the moon, boeing 727, DC 8, semiconductors, etc Only minor improvement... Nothing like the bi plane to jet plane in 50 years. From 90s onwards, there's nothing but financialization and monetary expansion. Western civilisation peaked!
@rachelsanger86293 ай бұрын
My goodness what s treasure, what a work ! Appreciate this so much.
@helensmith66703 ай бұрын
Same here. Thank you. Unfortunately, I can't access other parts.
@jamesboekbinder39673 ай бұрын
Thanks for posting this!
@martin22893 ай бұрын
Was fortunate enough to have studied this along with Bronowski's "Ascent of Man" as an elective course in high school.
@agh718523 сағат бұрын
What year?
@Chardonbois2 ай бұрын
Refreshing to see time spent lingering on the art and architecture which would not be tolerated in today's fast-paced repetitive production values.
@gordonbryce2 ай бұрын
Yes, this old fashioned, highly educated man of his type has almost died out. He did, however, have his blind spots. He does not mention Spain's contribution-the courts of Asturias, Leon, Galicia and the vibrancy that once was the fusing of the best of Christian and Islamic cultures in Grenada, despite the persecutions, there. He would have also understood 'chivalry' if he had studied the life of El Cid and the folk legends attached to him!
@Venmaylove2 ай бұрын
Wrong. That's just CGI effects they used back then to make it look like they spent longer on such aspects. They did something called slowing down which is also known as slow motion in order to make it look like they allowed for such aspects. You can see this in the deleted scenes on the Blu Ray copy. Clark signed a few copies for my cousin, who was in rehab with him. They said he's OK but keeps talking about how how Liszt is better than Chopin
@Venmaylove2 ай бұрын
why are you being subversive? Let me be emphatic: Christian culture and influence is responsible for 95 percent of the architectural basis and influence in Western Civilization. Greco-Roman origins but don't try that.
@seanoconnor88432 ай бұрын
I haven't seen this in years. My view of the world comes from this documentary.
@chrismorley83483 ай бұрын
The Ascent of Man was the epilogue. Wait for the flash. Amen
@markhowardmarley98412 ай бұрын
This is wonderful. Thank you for posting
@grey.knight Жыл бұрын
Amazing. Thanks for posting.
@ant79363 ай бұрын
I missed this first time around, on TV. As good as I expected. Thanks.
@Literallyarealhuman3 ай бұрын
This is gold
@SuperGreatSphinx4 ай бұрын
Kenneth Mackenzie Clark 13 July, 1903 - 21 May, 1983
@tuckerbugeater3 ай бұрын
He lived. He Died. He left nothing.
@user-qr9uh1fd8g2 ай бұрын
Greatest Generation
@cecilialove73392 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for everything good you gave us.
@GeorgethenorthseatigerАй бұрын
Superb watch, thanks for uploading
@Ally-StaffyLover3 ай бұрын
If anyone is interested I have a copy of this saved to my playlist. There you will find a link in the description section where you can either download or watch the rest of the files from 1-13. Enjoy
@viciouslady13403 ай бұрын
But they are hidden 😥😥
@Ally-StaffyLover3 ай бұрын
Did you click on the link of the website? Once on the website scroll down and click on the MPEG4 FILES. You can just watch them without having to download them. It should just open & play. I just tried it & it is working fine. Let me know how you get on. 🙂
@Buster_Piles3 ай бұрын
Thank you, I'll dl them. Great. 😊
@jumpstar900026 күн бұрын
That is a rather excellent channel you have there! Thank you so much for collecting all that and sharing it.
@Tom_Swift12 күн бұрын
Currently halfway through the first episode, this is great. Thank you for uploading. 👍 I'm in Canada so will have to find a VPN or something for the next 2 videos.
@user-bl7bt4tk7p6 ай бұрын
Douglas Murray sent me 👍 thank you
@vova473 ай бұрын
Sama here 😅
@KareliaCrimea3 ай бұрын
Same here 👍
@johnmurdoch85343 ай бұрын
Yuck
@helensmith66703 ай бұрын
Same here. Thank you Douglas!
@johnmurdoch85343 ай бұрын
@@askhams jew lover
@nigelsouthworth80811 ай бұрын
Thanks for posting
@dmswanson56943 ай бұрын
Knowing with an elegance of insight.
@tmcboston123 күн бұрын
Thank you VERY much GoldenThread !!!
@blakelowe907929 күн бұрын
I learned recently that this entire series was commissioned by David Attenborough to show off BBC2's new color broadcasting. When seen through that lens, this series makes so much more sense. Some people who haven't seen it (including my younger self) think it's a xenophobic or uncaring to other cultures, but after the first episode the question of who is 'civilized' and who is not is really dropped altogether. Clark made a series on Western art because that was his expertise; the civilization question was really just a device to tie the series together. I find his commentary balanced and refreshingly honest, especially his critique of the obtuseness of modern art. When taken for what it is, a series on art to show the possibilities of color TV, with amazing cinematography and thoughtful commentary, it's an enthralling and still poignant piece of art itself.
@johnmurdoch853428 күн бұрын
Why should one have to apologize for celebrating western civilization in a documentary on the subject?
@agh718523 сағат бұрын
@@johnmurdoch8534that is not the purpose of this documentary
@johnmurdoch853422 сағат бұрын
@@agh7185 it is just a celebration. ..not an apology.
@winther53 ай бұрын
Thanks Douglas
@WizardofOdd-ws3wg3 ай бұрын
A new dark age is upon us,
@bidenator97603 ай бұрын
If you let it happen
@tuckerbugeater3 ай бұрын
@@bidenator9760 Happened when your ancestors accepter a small hat God.
@arturslunga422619 күн бұрын
From what I have heard, the high audiovisual quality comes from it being shot using film, then transferred to magnetic tape for broadcast.
@propagandatwoАй бұрын
‘There are more things in heaven and earth, Kenneth, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.’
@JacobafJelling2 ай бұрын
The quality of these vintage shows out class 95 %of modern shit
@alexandersunter48993 ай бұрын
Superb.
@kingtanichiАй бұрын
Thanks for posting. Because most of the original series was struck from KZfaq, I just went to ThriftBooks and bought the last remaining DVD set..
@CraigStCyrPlus3 ай бұрын
I sent myself here.
@ryangarritty9761Ай бұрын
Thank you, TGT, and KC, of course... .
@noshowjackie16 күн бұрын
An entertaining program, but even more interesting is the man Kenneth Clark. Read up on him.
@7349yt3 ай бұрын
Such a brilliant work of art itself.
@Dr_DeeDee3 ай бұрын
There are two other videos with E6-9 and E10-13. Keep looking.
@liltick1023 ай бұрын
To anyone: Read Elie Faure’s “a history of art” - very worth it believe me.
@simonf89023 ай бұрын
Lord Clarke is/ was a most exceptional human being indeed.
@alanledzep19672 ай бұрын
Timely.
@NBAballToWalls3 күн бұрын
Back when we weren't afraid to admit that the west is the best. It brings me great sadness to see what has happened. Western countries are still the only places in the world that other people are trying to break into to be a part of. You never hear about Americans immigrating to India, or Pakistan or Iran etc. Yet, we in the west are taught to believe we are evil and to never be proud of our heritage. I pray there comes a day again where the west is proud that it is still the best.
@johnsutton19552 ай бұрын
Brilliant series.❤❤
@neilmanhard13413 ай бұрын
I've watched this show a few times, but this is the first time I noticed (at 2:01) a WWII German Panther tank.
@GerardoDelanda3 ай бұрын
Totalmente de acuerdo paisano, Claudio Brook tenía una voz portentosa me gusta más esta serie narrada por él que por el Sr. Clark saludos desde Tepoztlán.
@nevbarnes10343 ай бұрын
Some of _Star Wars_ was shot on Skellig island. That feels appropriate, somehow. _Star Wars_ is, after all, about the rebirth of a civilisation after the rise and fall of an empire.
@JackPrestrud3 ай бұрын
That island is actually "Skellig Michael", or Michael's Island. "Skellig", or "Skerries", were Norse terms for little offshore islands.
@waielbagh5691Ай бұрын
What a documentary…
@prettypurple71752 ай бұрын
Original broadcast (BBC)edit Previewedit The series was launched at a preview event at the National Gallery in London on 6 February 2018.[10] Sir David Attenborough, who commissioned the original series with Kenneth Clark, made a special guest appearance, saying he "cannot wait to see the series". He also stated that the BBC could not simply have reproduced the approach of the original series, stating "Society has changed. We have an international society, a multi-ethnic society. You can't just do it in the way we did it."[11] The first trailer was released on 7 February 2018.[12]
@andyinwards21193 ай бұрын
Very well made with beautiful photography and presented clearly and concisely by Clark. All I would say is that his point of view is very simplistic and will not give you a broad view of civilisation and its challengers.
@janesmith90562 ай бұрын
Still wonderful after all these years. (And no bland muzak doodling away behind him as he talks - as if we can't only concentrate and listen to the content the presenter is delivering and need extra stimulation.)
@johnmurdoch85343 ай бұрын
This stuff really saddens me. I enjoy these docs though
@tuckerbugeater3 ай бұрын
Humans are evil
@jrhartley67423 ай бұрын
8min 20sec into Part 1. Says it all our way of life is fragile given the same threats that exist today, greater than they have ever been. Internally decay along with existential threats and invasions
@GabiGris3 ай бұрын
thanks
@Telcontar19623 ай бұрын
Not one person.here showed they actually listened to what he said in E1. This is what is happening in the West today. His warning went unheeded.
@viciouslady13403 ай бұрын
The same way they didn't listen to Uri Besmenov
@AndyJarman3 ай бұрын
Wow how views about the dark ages have changed. Today it's accepted the "Roman Empire" didn't end, until Byzantium fell on May 23rd 1453 when it fell to Islam. At that time the European Renaissance was already in full swing.
@jamesbomd35032 ай бұрын
I first watched during the 1st lockdown Of 2020 On PBS Television I was hoping to see Kenneth Clarke MP Pop up During the documentary. I figured it had been filmed in the Early 2000s Then I realised halfway through how old those cars looked so possibly late 80s Early 90s I'm absolutely astonished & quite frankly blown away it was made in 1969
@hortenseweinblatt15082 ай бұрын
The choral music, in time-mark 3:16:15 to 3:17:44 The work is by Josquin des Prez "Nymphes des bois (Lamentation for Okeghem)" (c.1497) There are many examples of it, on youtube, but the performance used here, in "Civilisation", is much more beautiful. Does anyone know what recording it is? Thank you!! May 6, 2024
@marmoset32 ай бұрын
By the skin of our teeth indeed.
@Ste20232 ай бұрын
and the barbarians r here now . Islam is European worst disease. ..it's a death cult disguised as religion. It's not a religion. Without doubt it's a Death cult
@nonegone7170Ай бұрын
@@Ste2023 All religions are death cults at the end of the day. Specially the big three abrahamic ones, nothing but trouble and superstition by peasants to stupid to see they're being manipulated.
@robertallen15273 ай бұрын
I like the music.
@maticbukovac6966Ай бұрын
What is the chant at 45.50?
@andraspeter11143 ай бұрын
Although I really appreciate that we are able to collect its fruits, and Im sure the sort of rapid technological advancement that has gone on in the last two millennia would not have been possible without them, the truth is that when we talk about ancient civilisation, the great empires of the past immediately jump to mind. Be it the Greek world, the Roman empire, the Han dynasty, the Egyptians or even the Prussian, British or French empires. Because just as sir Clark points out, the leisure of thinking about how to improve things in a rational way is born out of the abundance which makes such thinking possible and worthwhile. To ommit the painfully obvious truth that such leisure came from the brutal exploitation of others is to speak in half-truths. Victory in combat and the ensuing plunder and slavery was what built all of these empires. To say that those who dared to oppose empires were nothing more than simple barbarians, spreading darkness, is to deny the quintessential fact that luxury is borne out of victory which is borne out of violence. That doesn't necessarily mean that we should be ashamed of all the benefits, its just that we have absolutely no right to pass judgement on people who drew the shorter straw.
@hv3115Ай бұрын
Well said. Civilization is a double-edged sword.. it is of course great for those within its walls.. but not so much for those outside the empire. Therefore, any objective and thorough examination of civilization, Western or otherwise, must include not only the great achievements of said civilization but also the great costs in mass-murder, conquests, plunder, brutality and barbarism wrought externally by those "civilizations" on the peoples outside the borders of those civilizations. To focus on simply the positive aspects of civilizations without critically examining the external human cost of creating and sustaining civilization is to wallow in simplistic thinking or indulge in propaganda.
@simonf89023 ай бұрын
Essential viewing. Again by the skin of our teeth does Civilization hang. The barbarians are at the gates again. Are we too exhausted to stop them ?
@seeingimages3 ай бұрын
NO.
@Patrick31833 ай бұрын
Yes
@markbahouth27133 ай бұрын
my grandfather who was from Palestine and came to New York harbor in 1910 used to say " dem english speak funny ". i read that in London centuries ago the average person that lived in London and traveled into the countryside could not understand the speech of the rural people . I used to watch a series or soap opera called the East Enders broad cast by the BBC that were about English people in a poor area of London on the east side and i could barely understand there accent it was so thick .
@pushthetempo23 ай бұрын
@@markbahouth2713EastEnders is still going and is still very popular! It's an east end/cockney accent of the London working classes. It's still true that someone from London might go to Newcastle in the north or to Glasgow in Scotland and not be able to understand their accent.
@JB-qt3wo2 ай бұрын
Our illegitimate rulers let them all in! Primarily because in the 60’s & 70’s they decided it would be posh to reduce our fertility rates through price inflation and birth control…then they realized they were shrinking the tax base, so they began bringing in migrants in the mid 90’s so that each proceeding administration didn’t have to shrink its budget. It really is quite that simple.
@Hoosier7653 ай бұрын
It's not that we didn't listen to this warning. It's that our leaders kept us too busy to stop them from evil
@aimhigh37012 ай бұрын
Check the pup dashing across the lawns at 1:53 :D
@c4call3 ай бұрын
The problem with civilization is that that great moral energy that draws it into existence from the depths of the human mind, is the producer of it and not the product of it, but so far has always been exhausted long before the civilization even begins to decline. Out of practice and habit, the civilization will go many generations being built up and spread, but that energy that instigated it through innovations away from the darkness of the past have since already been replaced by a new orthodoxy and a new traditionalism. This man and his thoughts are sprung forth from an already traditionalized civilization the energy of which was exhausted before even WW1. The Brits spread their empire centuries prior and their truly innovated energy was long depleted at this point, and as WW1 and WW2 and then the Cold War commenced, they were merely surviving from the artifacts of the magic energies of the past. Already ethnically and energetically exhausted, groaning under the ever-increasing weight of exacerbating weaknesses and intrinsic vices. By the time a "Civilization" begins attempting to describe and justify its own existence", it is likely already on the downward trajectory.
@alejandrobustos6933 ай бұрын
When Europe was still a good place to live.
@strfe102327 күн бұрын
good piece of information
@user-hb2ku5oq5r3 ай бұрын
Nice video¡¡Thank you very much¡¡Our civilisation has been a point in universe¡¡"Tolerance+Freedom+Justice+Respect=Humanity(Julio Caesar)"¡¡¡
@MikePuorro3 ай бұрын
BBC in the 1970's: Are you a historian? Historian: Yes BBC in the 1970's: Want you're own TV show? Historian: I'll give it a shot.
@tuckerbugeater3 ай бұрын
The BBC still has historians.
@GreenTeaViewer3 ай бұрын
Poignant that in the opening minutes he's overlooking Notre Dame which has now been partially destroyed.