Lord Kenneth Clark's 'Civilisation' - The Skin of our Teeth (Part 1)

First broadcast by the BBC in 1969, then the US and other countries, the program reached an unprecedented number of viewers for an art series.

Clark's book of the same title, based on the series, was published in 1969."

Comments:

Green Eggs and Ham

Only as I watch this do I begin to realise just how beaten down I've become by the more recent exhausted re-writing of European history.

Clay Blasdel

Today Notre Dame burned. Civilization burned.

Durontae Jones

This fellow positively reeks of culture and wears civilization like a proper haircut.

spleeeen4it

Pure quality,  something you don't see on TV these days

soapbxprod

This is intellectual caviar.

Rascalndear1

We are facing this same ruin today... and all the elements are there: fear, boredom, suffiency...

Political Philosophy

Nothing remotely like this on British TV today. Unless, of course by TV you call Mary Beard standing in front of the Colosseum, holding a bicycle with a rap/R'n'B soundtrack blasting out in the background: "Well mate, the Romans were wicked, I mean diversity is what makes them truly great innit? Just riffing on some Virgil now as I speak, laters people."