Genius of the Ancient World

The first episode is basically footage taken from a movie interspersed with a talking head visiting a few random historical sites and filler places

In the second episode the narrator tells us that we need to see Egypt from space in order to understand. You'd think we would see Egypt from space, right? Wrong. We see a talking head blabber on and then randomly jump to a conclusion. The story progression reminds me of Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle

This is hard to watch. It is Hollywood crap. Make a story overly complicated and unfocused and pass it off as grand. This series is nothing but filler

Western audience need to ask for better informative documentaries or drama if you will. If the producers continue to harp on the cliched narrative of cast hierarchy and fancy the roamance of Indian proverty sadly it would be the audience which will be the loser.

Bettany falls for the same cliched beaten down path nothing much to offer in terms of content but a clever effort to hide that incompetence behind the colorful india.

Bettany Hughes presents an engaging rewiew of Buddhismm, Socratic method and Confucianism- The series looks at the historical contect of these three great leaders and also distills the core philosophies into their core essence so that the viewer can appreciate them as much as possible. Ignore the critics - judge for yourself!

Ridiculously incorrect it portraying ideas of these great thinkers. Annoying clip style filming where the camera can't show something longer than 5 seconds.

It was a successful production, they describe the people and beliefs in a very comprehensive manner and accompanied by experts. It is better to focus on the interior.