Genius of the Ancient World

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.

In trying to show buddhas journey,dint understand why they kept showing Indian poverty, found no connection of that with the story and that has not been done for Socrates or Confucius.

If wanting to show the country, show the good and bad, India is only shown in bad light.If wanting to show suffering, show for all countries.

Buddha and Confucius episode are low on information

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.

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.