Genius of the Modern World

They talk about Marx as if he was a mass killer... They completely misunderstood his ideas, this is misinformation! It was the dictators of communist states that we're the "bad" guys, not Marx. If we would follow his ideologies life would be good so please don't watch this!

I love all of the information that is presented but the camera bothered me so much that I got most of the way through the first episode before I had to turn it off and switch to something else. On top of the akward and distracting camera, there's A LOT of footage of things that don't relate to the topic at all. Very dissapointing. I wanted to watch this.

It is a documentary series that can be watched focusing on German thinkers. You can squeeze a little while watching. I hope it's not just his mind that he focuses on the Germans.

This is a 3-part BBC follow-up to Genius of the Ancient World (2015). Host Bettany Hughes examines three big thinkers who ushered in the modern 20th century; Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud. There is an inherent improvement over the previous series. I know very little about the lives of these three famous names. Even their groundbreaking works are only bumper sticker slogans to me. So a lot of this series is new information and that's very compelling. In a way, these three episodes are much darker, more tragic, and more human. That also makes their stories more complex and more fascinating. They can be depressing. They have powerful echoes throughout the modern world. It's an interesting dive into these big names.

I only watched the first episode, and that's enough. Packed with inaccurate information, some being not circumstantiated. It would appear the whole point is to make the viewer think Marx was mentally ill and an alcoholic. Political statements disguised as historical facts. A mixture between superficiality and the worst manipulative journalism.