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Civilisations (2018) Season 1

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1x01 Second Moment of Creation aired Mar 01, 2018

The first film by Simon Schama in Civilisations looks at the formative role that art and the creative imagination have played in the forging of humanity itse... read more

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1x02 How Do We Look? aired Mar 01, 2018

Mary Beard looks at images of the human body in ancient art, seeking answers to fundamental questions at the heart of ideas about civilisations. Why have hu... read more

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1x03 Picturing Paradise aired Mar 01, 2018

Simon Schama examines one of our deepest artistic urges: the depiction of nature. Simon discovers that landscape painting is seldom a straightforward descri... read more

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1x04 The Eye of Faith aired Mar 01, 2018

Mary Beard broaches the controversial, sometimes dangerous, topic of religion and art. For millennia, art has inspired religion as much as religion has insp... read more

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1x05 The Triumph of Art aired Mar 01, 2018

Think Renaissance and you think Italy. But in the 15th and 16th centuries the great Islamic empires experienced their own extraordinary cultural flowering. ... read more

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1x06 First Contact aired Mar 01, 2018

In the 15th and 16th centuries distant and disparate cultures met, often for the first time. These encounters provoked wonder, awe, bafflement and fear. And... read more

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1x07 Radiance aired Mar 01, 2018

Simon Schama begins with the great Gothic cathedrals of Amiens and Chartres to look at the links between colour, spirituality and civilisation. He then move... read more

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1x08 The Cult of Progress aired Mar 01, 2018

David Olusoga’s second film in Civilisations is about the art that followed and reflected early encounters between different cultures, in this programme he o... read more

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1x09 The Vital Spark aired Mar 01, 2018

Simon Schama begins Civilisations with this premise: that it is in art - the play of the creative imagination - that humanity expresses its most essential se... read more

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