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Historian Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of three great thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world - Karl Marx, Frederick Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud.
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  • Marx
    7.3/10153 votes

    Marx

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 6/16/2016

    Bettany begins her journey in the city of Trier on the banks of the Mosel in Germany. It was here on the 5 May 1818 that Karl Marx, one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century was born.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Nietzsche
    8.1/10178 votes

    Nietzsche

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 6/23/2016

    Nietzsche's uncompromising ideas smashed the safe presuppositions and assumptions of religion, morality and science.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Freud
    7.6/10123 votes

    Freud

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 6/30/2016

    Bettany Hughes travels to Vienna on the trail of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis.

    Director: Unknown

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