East To West(2012)
Documentary
First Air Date: 2012-03-06
Average Runtime: 52m
Rating: 6.0
Votes: 1
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 7
This six-part series tells the story of the birth and flourishing of civilisation in the Middle East and its huge influence on the West. From the foundation of science, monotheism, commerce, justice, civil rights and artistic expression - look Eastward. The series contends that history that starts from an ancient Greek perspective distorts the true path of civilisation. For crucial phases in world history, the political, economic and cultural centre was the Middle East.
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes: 7E01
Between Two Rivers
Air Date: 2012-03-06
This episode follows the birth of civilization in Anatolia and the Middle East. We go back to the very beginnings; hu...
E02
The Triumph Of Monotheism
Air Date: 2012-04-06
Today one god is worshipped by two thirds of humanity. It is the culmination of an extraordinary story by which a sin...
E03
A Force From The Desert
Air Date: 2012-10-20
We trace the origins of the Arabs and Islam, from nomadic Bedouins to the sophisticated Nabataean cultures at Petra a...
E04
The Muslim Renaissance
Air Date: 2012-09-08
In this film we will reveal how a golden age of invention and scholarship thrived in the Islamic World at a time when...
E05
The Asian Crucible
Air Date: 2012-11-03
This spectacular episode explores the extraordinary powers and civilizations that have emerged from central Asia. Fir...
E06
The Rise Of The Ottomans
Air Date: 2012-09-15
At the time of Elizabeth I, the greatest power in the world was not England, France or Florence, it was the Ottoman E...
E07
The Ottomans And The West
Air Date: 2012-09-15
The film looks at the wider Ottoman world, taking in superb merchants’ houses in Birgi (Anatolia) and Damascus. At th...
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