https://www.myvideo.ge/?user_id=331852Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:08:33 +00002768008https://www.myvideo.ge/v/2768008The More Abundant Life: concludes the series by looking at contemporary America in the 1960s and early 1970s, and how it had diverged from the original aims of the settlers, and its hope for the future.1454759376331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/277/2768008.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2768008.mp42768007https://www.myvideo.ge/v/2768007Arsenal: examines the rise of the reluctant United States to world military power, the growth of the United Nations, and the United States as a nuclear power.1454759083331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/277/2768007_2.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2768007.mp42768004https://www.myvideo.ge/v/2768004Money on the Land: addresses the rise and effects of business and technology, touching Chicago, the reaper, Edison, oil, Rockefeller and Carnegie, and the moneyed classes.1454756246331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/277/2768004_3.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2768004.mp42768003https://www.myvideo.ge/v/2768003Domesticating a Wilderness: deals with the great push westward by the settlers, including the Mormons; the crossing of the continent by railroad; the myth of the cowboy; the domestication of the land by settlers local and foreign; and the final conquest of the Native Americans after much warfare.1454756177331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/277/2768003_3.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2768003.mp42768006https://www.myvideo.ge/v/2768006The Promise Fulfilled: and the Promise Broken surveys life, prosperity, and politics in the 1920s, leading to the Great Depression and the rise of the New Deal.1454755183331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/277/2768006_3.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2768006.mp42768005https://www.myvideo.ge/v/2768005The Huddled Masses: covers the rise and influence of mass immigration in the 19th and 20th centuries, and the current "melting pot".1454754892331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/277/2768005.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2768005.mp42768001https://www.myvideo.ge/v/2768001Gone West: is about the pioneers, from Daniel Boone to the "Forty-Niners"; expansion through the Louisiana Purchase; and the dispossession of Native Americans.1454754547331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/277/2768001_3.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2768001.mp42767999https://www.myvideo.ge/v/2767999Making a Revolution: looks at the War of Independence, the struggle to break free of British control.1454754540331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/277/2767999_2.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2767999.mp42768002https://www.myvideo.ge/v/2768002A Firebell in the Night: tells of slavery and life in the Southern states and of the events, causes, and effects of the Civil War.1454753168331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/277/2768002_3.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2768002.mp42768000https://www.myvideo.ge/v/2768000Inventing a Nation: chronicles the forging of the nation through the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and the great debate between the national and individual state governments.1454753100331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/277/2768000_3.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2768000.mp42767998https://www.myvideo.ge/v/2767998Home from Home: relates the settlement of America by English dissenters and adventurers in the 16th and 17th centuries, from the Jamestown Settlement to the Pilgrim Fathers.1454752134331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/277/2767998_3.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2767998.mp42767991https://www.myvideo.ge/v/2767991Clark concludes the series with a discussion of the materialism and humanitarianism of the 19th and 20th centuries. He visits the industrial landscape of 19th century England and the skyscrapers of 20th century New York. He argues that the achievements of the engineers and scientists—such as Brunel and Rutherford—have been matched by those of the great reformers like Wilberforce and Shaftesbury.1454751832331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/277/2767991_3.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2767991.mp42767997https://www.myvideo.ge/v/2767997The New Found Land: follows the lives, settlements, and influence of the Spanish in the west and the French in the east.1454750638331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/277/2767997.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2767997.mp42767990https://www.myvideo.ge/v/2767990Clark argues that the French Revolution led to the dictatorship of Napoleon and the dreary bureaucracies of the 19th century, and he traces the disillusionment of the artists of Romanticism—from Beethoven's music to Byron's poetry, Delacroix's paintings, and Rodin's sculpture.1454750616331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/277/2767990_2.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2767990.mp42767996https://www.myvideo.ge/v/2767996The First Impact: is a personal memoir of Cooke's infatuation with the United States - through early contacts as a child and as a visiting fellow after university - and its effect on his life.1454750542331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/277/2767996.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2767996.mp42767989https://www.myvideo.ge/v/2767989Belief in the divinity of nature, Clark argues, usurped Christianity’s position as the chief creative force in Western civilization and ushered in the Romantic movement. Clark visits Tintern Abbey and the Alps and discusses the landscape paintings of Turner and Constable.1454748388331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/277/2767989_3.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2767989.mp42767988https://www.myvideo.ge/v/2767988Clark talks of the harmonious flow and complex symmetries of the works of Bach, Handel, Haydn, and Mozart and the reflection of their music in the architecture of the Rococo churches and palaces of Bavaria.1454748067331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/277/2767988_3.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2767988.mp42766687https://www.myvideo.ge/v/2766687Sir David Attenborough talks about the commissioning and production of the series1454671186331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/277/2766687.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2766687.mp42766670https://www.myvideo.ge/v/2766670Clark discusses the Age of Enlightenment, tracing it from the polite conversations of the elegant Parisian salons of the 18th century to subsequent revolutionary politics, the great European palaces of Blenheim and Versailles, and finally Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello.1454670988331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/277/2766670.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2766670.mp42766653https://www.myvideo.ge/v/2766653Clark tells of new worlds in space and in a drop of water—worlds that the telescope and microscope revealed—and the new realism in the Dutch paintings of Rembrandt and others artists that took the observation of human character to a higher stage of development in the 17th century.1454667669331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/277/2766653.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2766653.mp42766646https://www.myvideo.ge/v/2766646Again in the Rome of Michelangelo and Bernini, Clark tells of the Catholic Church's fight against the Protestant north—the Counter-Reformation—and the Church's new splendour symbolised by the glory of St. Peter's.1454667520331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/277/2766646_2.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2766646.mp42766640https://www.myvideo.ge/v/2766640Clark takes the viewer back to the Reformation—to the Germany of Albrecht Dürer and Martin Luther and the world of the humanists Erasmus, Montaigne, and Shakespeare.1454662804331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/277/2766640_3.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2766640.mp42766637https://www.myvideo.ge/v/2766637Here Clark takes the viewer back to 16th century Papal Rome—noting the convergence of Christianity and antiquity. He discusses Michelangelo, Raphael, and Leonardo da Vinci; the courtyards of the Vatican; the rooms decorated for the Pope by Raphael; and the Sistine Chapel.1454662152331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/277/2766637_3.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2766637.mp42766633https://www.myvideo.ge/v/2766633Visiting Florence, Clark argues that European thought gained a new impetus from its rediscovery of its classical past in the 15th century. He also visits the palaces at Urbino and Mantua and other centers of (Renaissance) civilization.1454661834331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/277/2766633_3.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2766633.mp42766631https://www.myvideo.ge/v/2766631Beginning at a castle in the Loire and then traveling through the hills of Tuscany and Umbria to the cathedral baptistry at Pisa, Clark examines both the aspirations and achievements of the later Middle Ages in 14th century France and Italy.1454659234331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/277/2766631_2.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2766631.mp42766620https://www.myvideo.ge/v/2766620Clark tells of the sudden reawakening of European civilization in the 12th century. He traces it from its first manifestations in the Cluny Abbey to the Basilica of St Denis and finally to its high point, the building of Chartres Cathedral in the early 13th century. 1454655049331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/277/2766620.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2766620.mp42766609https://www.myvideo.ge/v/2766609In this the first episode Clark - travelling from Byzantine Ravenna to the Celtic Hebrides, from the Norway of the Vikings to Charlemagne's chapel at Aachen - tells his story of the Dark Ages, the six centuries following the collapse of the Roman Empire. 1454653438331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/277/2766609.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2766609.mp42687269https://www.myvideo.ge/v/2687269In the summer of 1968 television news changed forever. Dead last in the ratings, ABC hired two towering public intellectuals to debate each other during the Democratic and Republican national conventions. William F. Buckley Jr. was a leading light of the new conservative movement. A Democrat and cousin to Jackie Onassis, Gore Vidal was a leftist novelist and polemicist. Armed with deep-seated distrust and enmity, Vidal and Buckley believed each other’s political ideologies were dangerous for America. Like rounds in a heavyweight battle, they pummeled out policy and personal insult—their explosive exchanges devolving into vitriolic name-calling. Live and unscripted, they kept viewers riveted. Ratings for ABC News skyrocketed, and a new era in public discourse was born. Directed by Robert Gordon Morgan Neville Produced by Julie Goldman Clif Phillips Caryn Capotosto Written by Robert Gordon Morgan Neville Music by Jonathan Kirkscey Narrative cast John Lithgow (serves as off-camera voice for Vidal) Kelsey Grammer (serves as off-camera voice for Buckley) Sam Tanenhaus, Buckley’s authorized biographer. Dick Cavett Noam Chomsky Christopher Hitchens1447543777331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/269/2687269_3.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2687269.mp42635244https://www.myvideo.ge/v/2635244The 'Scramble for Africa' by competing European nations during the last years of Queen Victoria's reign is the compelling tale of this programme. We learn how 10,000 independent African kingdoms became 40 European colonies over the course of two decades, in a drastic redrawing of the map. Indeed, by 1900 Britain owned half of Africa. No longer dominated by moral and religious concerns, this new era was about power and the economy as the battle for raw materials progressed. Power was in the hands of bankers and industrialists such as Rothschild and Cecil Rhodes, as illustrated by their use of the new Maxim guns to keep any opponents in check. By this stage it was businessmen doing the colonising and not governments. This was a time when young men from elite schools were sent to work in the colonies, with the sports fields of England used as training grounds for a career in the army. Images of heroes overcoming the native warriors were very popular. Archive film from this period, of battles such as Omdurman in Sudan, illustrate the power of British military tactics and show a complete disregard for supposedly inferior races. The Boer war and subsequent treatment of the Boers brought a moral backlash in Britain that signalled a new era for the British empire. 1442022050331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/264/2635244_2.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2635244.mp42634925https://www.myvideo.ge/v/2634925The fall of the British empire is usually attributed to Nationalist groups fighting for independence, yet as Niall Ferguson argues in this final programme of the series, it was really due to the crippling cost of running the empire and financing the two World Wars. He reflects on the achievements and problems of the empire and concludes that in its twilight years Britain did more good than harm in fighting two far worse empires, namely Japan and Germany. Visiting some of the hot spots of the two World Wars and of the campaigns for independence that followed, such as Gallipoli, Istanbul, Suez, Amritsar and Singapore, presenter Niall Ferguson gives us a vivid picture of an empire on its last legs. The British empire took 300 years to build and less than three decades to dismantle, leaving just a few scattered islands in its charge. Niall summarises the legacy of the empire in terms of the English language, a free market economy and parliamentary democracy across most of the world, yet doesn't hesitate in reminding us of the horror of the empire for millions of people. In conclusion, Niall claims that America now controls an empire, not by owning colonies but by virtue of the spread of its brands, culture, economy, faith and ideals across the globe. 1441992843331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/264/2634925_2.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2634925.mp42634846https://www.myvideo.ge/v/2634846In this programme we discover how a few thousand British people ruled over India, a country of more than 250 million people and the centre point of the whole British empire. Niall Ferguson demonstrates the vital role played by the Indian army both within India and beyond, and the role of British technology in developing the army and modern Indian cities. Modern-day footage of the hill station at Simla gives us a glimpse of colonial life in late 19th century India. From the early 19th century an elite class of well-educated Indians was encouraged, with men like JN Bose becoming successful lawyers and administrators. In fact, the British administrators were so few in number that it was essential to involve Indian people in their own government. Yet by the end of the 19th century the White Mutiny threatened to end this liberal attitude and ultimately led to a genuine Nationalist movement. Looking at the Caribbean in the same period, Niall explores the conditions for black people after the abolition of slavery and the treatment of respectable black religious leaders such as George William Gordon. 1441989321331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/264/2634846.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2634846.mp42634833https://www.myvideo.ge/v/2634833The concept of 'plantation' is explored in this programme, yet presenter Niall Ferguson is not referring to crops but the settlement of British people into the colonies. Without this mass white emigration there would have been no empire. Visiting Northern Ireland, the USA and Australia, we explore how the first colonies of the British empire developed. In contrast to the Spanish, the British viewed the colonies as a way to gain land to settle on and use, rather than just conquest and plunder. The east coast of the USA was first settled by puritans wanting religious freedom, including those who sailed on the famous ship 'The Mayflower' in 1620. The combination of cheap land and abundant natural resources made this an ideal location for sugar and tobacco plantations. Niall goes on to describe the American War of Independence a century and a half later. From Native American Indians to the Aborigines of Australia, the indigenous people of the 'New World' were treated appallingly, with little or no respect for land rights. One of the great ironies of the British empire is the difference between official policy in London and the actions of white settlers in the colonies. 1441988785331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/264/2634833_3.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2634833.mp42634755https://www.myvideo.ge/v/26347551649–1689. Political and religious revolutions racked Britain after Charles I's execution, when Britain was a joyless, kingless republic led by Oliver Cromwell. His rule became so unpopular that for many it was a relief when the monarchy was restored after his death, but Cromwell was also a man of vision who brought about significant reforms.1441987037331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/264/2634755_3.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2634755.mp42634790https://www.myvideo.ge/v/2634790Following the religious revival that started in the late 18th century, missionaries began working in Africa and India in an attempt to bring Christianity and civilisation to societies perceived as heathens. We learn of David Livingstone's adventures in Africa as he attempted to link the three 'C's – Christianity, commerce and civilisation. From his discovery of the Victoria Falls to his famous meeting with Henry Stanley, we follow the career of this fascinating character. Presenter Niall Ferguson also travels to India and examines the changing attitudes towards Indian religions and culture during the 19th century. He also traces the Indian mutiny of 1857 and its brutal aftermath in which thousands were brutally killed. 1441985178331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/264/2634790_3.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2634790.mp42634787https://www.myvideo.ge/v/2634787In this programme we learn about the origins of the British empire in the 17th century and how its foundations were laid, not by a grand political strategy but by British pirates, especially in the Caribbean. The British economic style of reinvesting in places like Jamaica led to commercial success as its raw materials – sugar, tobacco and coffee – were in huge demand back at home in Britain. Seventeenth-century India was a rich nation, producing a quarter of the world's output, so it is no surprise that the major nations fought over it. The British won the seven-year war with France over supremacy in the colonies, thanks to its superior warships and much stronger finances, which left Britain as the controlling force in India. We get a glimpse of how the British lived in India, the central role played by the East India Company, and how a commercial base developed into political control. 1441984172331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/264/2634787.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2634787.mp42634778https://www.myvideo.ge/v/26347781087–1216. There is no saga more powerful than that of the warring dynasty – domineering father, beautiful, scheming mother and squabbling, murderous sons and daughters, (particularly the nieces). In the years that followed the Norman Conquest, this was the drama played out on the stage of British history.1441981951331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/264/2634778_2.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2634778.mp42634785https://www.myvideo.ge/v/26347851910–1965. In the final episode, Schama examines the overwhelming presence of the past in the British twentieth century and the struggle of leaders to find a way to make a different national future. As towering figures of the twentieth century, Churchill and Orwell (through his 1984 character Winston Smith) in their different ways exemplify lives spent brooding and acting on that imperial past, and most movingly for us, writing and shaping its history.1441981925331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/264/2634785.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2634785.mp42634760https://www.myvideo.ge/v/26347601750–1800. The series is the exhilarating and terrible story of how the British Empire came into being through its early settlements—the Caribbean through the sugar plantations (and helped by slavery), the land that later became the United States and India through the British East India Company - and how it eventually came to dominate the world. A story of exploration and daring, but also one of exploitation, conflict, and loss.1441981634331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/264/2634760_3.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2634760.mp42634759https://www.myvideo.ge/v/26347591690–1750. As the new century dawned, relations between Scotland and England had never been worse. Yet half a century later the two countries would be making a future together based on profit and interest. The new Britain was based on money, not God.1441981490331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/264/2634759.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2634759.mp42634782https://www.myvideo.ge/v/26347821830–1925. This episode charts the chequered life of the liberal empire from Ireland to India – the promise of civilisation and material betterment and the delivery of coercion and famine. 1441981388331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/264/2634782.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2634782.mp42634765https://www.myvideo.ge/v/26347651830–1910. As the Victorian era began, the massive advance of technology and industrialisation was rapidly reshaping both the landscape and the social structure of the whole country. To a much greater extent than ever before women would take a center-stage role in shaping society.1441980653331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/264/2634765_3.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2634765.mp42634762https://www.myvideo.ge/v/26347621780–1832. Britain never had the kind of revolution experienced by France in 1789, but it did come close. In the mid-1770s the country was intoxicated by a great surge of political energy. Re-discovering England's wildernesses, the intellectuals of the "romantic generation" also discovered the plight of the common man, turning nature into a revolutionary force.1441980565331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/264/2634762_3.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2634762.mp42634748https://www.myvideo.ge/v/26347481603–1649. The turbulent civil wars of the early seventeenth century would culminate in two events unique to British history; the public execution of a king and the creation of a republic. Schama tells of the brutal war that tore the country in half and created a new Britain – divided by politics and religion and dominated by the first truly modern army, fighting for ideology, not individual leaders.1441979930331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/264/2634748_3.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2634748.mp42634743https://www.myvideo.ge/v/26347431558–1603. This is the story of two queens: Elizabeth I of England, the consummate politician, and Mary I, Queen of Scots, the Catholic mother. It is also the story of the birth of a nation.1441979587331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/264/2634743.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2634743.mp42634741https://www.myvideo.ge/v/26347411500–1558. Here Simon Schama charts the upheaval caused as a country renowned for its piety, whose king styled himself Defender of the Faith, turns into one of the most aggressive proponents of the new Protestant faith.1441979445331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/264/2634741.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2634741.mp42634733https://www.myvideo.ge/v/26347331348–1500. It took only six years for the plague to ravage the British Isles. Its impact was to last for generations. But from the ashes of this trauma an unexpected and unique class of Englishmen emerged.1441979301331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/264/2634733_2.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2634733.mp42634728https://www.myvideo.ge/v/26347281216–1348, this is the epic account of how the nations of Britain emerged from under the hammer of England's "Longshanks" King Edward I, with a sense of who and what they were, which endures to this day.1441979215331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/264/2634728_3.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2634728.mp42634690https://www.myvideo.ge/v/26346901000–1087. 1066 is not the best remembered date in British history for nothing. In the space of nine hours whilst the Battle of Hastings raged, everything changed. Anglo-Saxon England became Norman and, for the next 300 years, its fate was decided by dynasties of Norman rulers. 1441977063331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/264/2634690.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2634690.mp42634686https://www.myvideo.ge/v/26346863100 BC – 1000 AD. Simon Schama starts his story in the stone age village of Skara Brae, Orkney. Over the next four thousand years Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, Danes, and Christian missionaries arrive, fight, settle and leave their mark on what will become the nations of Britain. 1441976480331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/264/2634686.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2634686.mp42415101https://www.myvideo.ge/v/24151011411405875331852https://thumbs01.myvideo.ge/242/2415101.jpghttp://embed.myvideo.ge/flv_player/player.php?video_id=2415101.mp41626913part television series about the United States and its history Combining speciallyshot and archive film with photographs paintings and sketches the series starts with the colonial period continues through the revolutionary war and pioneer expansionist eras looks at the global conflicts and economic domination of the 20th century and concludes with a study of the social upheavals and counterculture revolutions of the 1960s and early 70s 2016-02-06https://www.myvideo.ge/?CI=1&ci_c=user_rss&ci_m=getPlaylistVideos&playlist_id=1626916260BBC television documentary series outlining the history of Western art architecture and philosophy since the Dark Ages The series is considered to be a landmark in British Televisions broadcasting of the visual arts2016-02-04https://www.myvideo.ge/?CI=1&ci_c=user_rss&ci_m=getPlaylistVideos&playlist_id=1626015170Historian and presenter Niall Ferguson takes us on a fascinating journey in both time and space to explore the impact of the British empire on the modern world From the earliest British settlers in Virginia to the decline of the empire in the aftermath of the two World Wars positive and negative aspects of the empire are illustrated through key events and players2015-09-11https://www.myvideo.ge/?CI=1&ci_c=user_rss&ci_m=getPlaylistVideos&playlist_id=1517015167Bringing Britains rich history to life Simon Schamas unique storytelling describes the triumphs and trials of the monarchy the effects of warring religions the expansion of the empire and the decline of Britain as a world power The story begins around 3100 BC and concludes in 19652015-09-11https://www.myvideo.ge/?CI=1&ci_c=user_rss&ci_m=getPlaylistVideos&playlist_id=151679393For the past 5 centuries Western civilizations have prevailed around the world How did that happen What led the West to be so influential and powerful And how long will the West sustain its supremacy Acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson returns to public television with a timely look at the reasons behind the Wests economic ascendancy and why Eastern civilizations may now be taking the lead2014-03-27https://www.myvideo.ge/?CI=1&ci_c=user_rss&ci_m=getPlaylistVideos&playlist_id=9393