

Historian Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of three great thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world - Karl Marx, Frederick Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud.
Documentary • Series • 2016 • 1 season
Starring: Bettany Hughes

S1 E1 - Marx
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.
Jun 16, 2016 • 1h

S1 E2 - Nietzsche
Nietzsche's uncompromising ideas smashed the safe presuppositions and assumptions of religion, morality and science.
Jun 23, 2016 • 1h

S1 E3 - Freud
Bettany Hughes travels to Vienna on the trail of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis.
Jun 30, 2016 • 1h
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Genius of the Modern World
Historian Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of three great thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world - Karl Marx, Frederick Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud.
Documentary • TV Series • 2016