The Best Episodes Directed By Michael Gill

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   9.0/10(4 votes)

   #1 - The Skin of Our Teeth

   S1:E12/23/1969

   In this the first episode Clark travels from Byzantine Ravenna to the Celtic Hebrides, from the Norway of the Vikings to Charlemagne's chapel at Aachen, telling his story of the Dark Ages; the six centuries following the collapse of the Roman Empire.

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   9.0/10(2 votes)

   #2 - Heroic Materialism

   S1:E135/18/1969

   Clark concludes the series with his discussion of materialism and humanitarianism of the past century. This takes us from the industrial landscape of nineteenth century England to the skyscrapers of twentieth century New York. The achievements of the engineers and scientists - such as Brunel and Rutherford - having been matched by the great reformers like Wilberforce and Shaftsbury.

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   8.5/10(2 votes)

   #3 - The Fallacies of Hope

   S1:E125/11/1969

   Here Clark argues that the French Revolution led to the dictatorship of Napoleon and the dreary bureaucracies of the nineteenth century and traces the disillusionment of the Romanticism artists is traced from Beethoven's, Byron's poetry, Delacroix's paintings to Rodin's sculpture.

   Director:Michael Gill

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   8.3/10(3 votes)

   #4 - The Hero as Artist

   S1:E53/23/1969

   Here Clark takes us back to 16th century Papal Rome noting the convergence of Christianity and antiquity. He discusses Michelangelo, Raphael, and da Vinci, the courtyards of the Vatican, the rooms decorated for the Pope by Raphael, and the Sistine Chapel.

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   8.0/10(3 votes)

   #5 - Romance and Reality

   S1:E33/9/1969

   Beginning at a castle in the Loire, then travelling through the hills of Tuscany and Umbria to the cathedral baptistry at Pisa as he examines both the aspirations and achievements of the later Middle Ages in France and Italy.

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   8.0/10(1 votes)

   #6 - The Light of Experience

   S1:E84/13/1969

   Here Clark tells of new worlds in space and in a drop of water that the telescope and microscope revealed, and the new realism in the Dutch paintings which took the observation of human character to a higher stage of development.

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   #7 - The Smile of Reason

   S1:E104/27/1969

   Here Clark discusses the Age of Enlightenment tracing it from the polite conversations in the elegant Parisian salons of eighteenth-century, through the subsequent revolutionary politics to the great European palaces of Blenheim and Versailles finally to Jefferson's Monticello.

   Director:Michael Gill

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