S1E1:The Second Moment of Creation

1 Mar 201853 minTV-PG

Historian Simon Schama looks at the formative role art and the creative imagination have played in the forging of humanity itself. He explores the remote origins of human creativity with the first known marks made some 80,000 years ago in South African caves. As time passes and imagination develops, he discovers that all civilizations believe themselves to be immortal, but all are doomed to fail.