Civilisation

Landmark arts documentary series from 1969. Kenneth Clark Kenneth Clark looks at the re-establishment of civilisation in Western Europe after the fall of Rome.

Kenneth Clark presents the landmark arts documentary series first shown in 1969. This programme traces the reawakening of European civilisation in the twelfth century.

Kenneth Clark journeys from the Loire through Tuscany and Umbria, to Pisa, as he explores the aspirations of the later Middle Ages in France and Italy.

Kenneth Clark continues his personal reflections on civilisation with a look at Renaissance man.

Kenneth Clark continues his personal reflections on civilisation with a look at individuals of genius, notably Michelangelo, Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci.

Kenneth Clark investigates the Protestant Reformation in northern Europe, and looks at Holbein, Thomas Moore, Erasmus and the printing press and Durer.

Sir Kenneth Clark visits Rome in search of grandeur and finds a city that gave rise to Michelangelo, Bernini and the Counter Reformation.

Sir Kenneth Clark's story takes him from the Holland of Rembrandt and Vermeer to the London of Wren, Purcell and the Royal Society.

Kenneth Clark reflects on the nature of the 18th-century music, and on the way that some of its qualities are reflected in the best of rococo architecture.

Kenneth Clark looks at the beginnings of revolutionary politics in the 18th century.

Sir Kenneth Clark examines a new force - the belief in the divinity of nature.

Sir Kenneth Clark traces the progressive disillusionment of the artists of the Romantic movement during the 19th century.

Kenneth Clark considers heroic materialism and humanitarianism in the past 100 years.