Genius of the Modern World

Betanny is brilliant, authentic and scholarly and the content just right. Definitely worth watching

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.

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!

Bettany Hughes, a historian and author, takes viewers on a journey into the tumultuous times of late 19th century, when 3 particular intellectuals perfected their mind-boggling ideas. Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud are examples of those larger-than-life thinkers who, through their penetrating insights into human condition, crystallized their ideas and ended up transforming the world and ushering in the 20th century. The world was never the same.

As a huge fan of factually accurate and documentaries (e.g., Sir Ken Clark and Carl Sagan) with an educational as well as reflective bent, I loved this 3-part series. Interspersed with beautiful visuals of visits of Ms. Hughes to many of the actual places of interest in the lives of these gentlemen, the narrator also interviews several leading scholars on the various aspects of their intellectual and personal life. I can't recommend it enough.

I could watch these forever!! Such an amazing collection of work & history. This led me to order books & learn more about these great minds!