7.3/10152 votes#1 - 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.
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8.1/10177 votes#2 - Nietzsche
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 6/23/2016
Nietzsche's uncompromising ideas smashed the safe presuppositions and assumptions of religion, morality and science.
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7.6/10121 votes#3 - Freud
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 6/30/2016
Bettany Hughes travels to Vienna on the trail of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis.
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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.
Genre:Documentary
Network:BBC Four
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Marx" is the best rated episode of "Genius of the Modern World" season 1. It scored 7.3/10 based on 152 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 6/16/2016. This episode is rated 0.8 points higher than the second-best, "Nietzsche".