Andrew Marr’s History of the World
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- Episode
- Episode 8 - Age of Extremes
- Broadcast Info
- 2012 (59 mins)
- Description
- Andrew Marr brings the story right up to date with the twentieth century - our age. Starting at Munich’s beer halls, Marr reveals how Hitler’s first revolt at the Munich Putsch resulted in his imprisonment at Landsberg, where the young Hitler was to dictate his memoirs ‘Mein Kampf’. Whilst Hitler was fighting for power in Germany, women were fighting a different battle, that of sexual rights. In the back streets of Manhattan, nurse Margaret Sanger works with American Heiress Katherine McCormick in a plan to smuggle contraceptives into America from Europe. Marr tells of the beginnings of Indian Independence with Gandhi’s Salt March. At the Babi Yar concentration camp outside Kiev, Marr reveals the brutal mass murder of the Jews by the Nazis around Europe. Marr travels to Hiroshima in Japan, the site of the world’s first nuclear bomb by Oppenheimer, thought to end all wars. In China, Marr investigates how new thinking came in Mao’s Cultural Revolution, in trying to create a Communist utopia. Followed by Deng Xiaoping’s reforms, creating capitalism in a communist country, resulting in one of the world’s biggest economies. Marr visits New York to trace the story of man versus machine, Gary Kasparov against IBM’s Deep Blue, in a chess game that gripped the world. The series ends with a 360 degree turn, finishing with the Ayoreo tribe in the Chaco region of South America, a tribe who had only recently made their first contact with the outside world. In the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Marr explains that the rest of history is up to us.
- Genre
- History; Philosophy and Ethics; Architecture; Science; Technology; Religion; Art and Design
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The Open University, "Andrew Marr’s History of the World". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/83201 (Accessed 10 Jan 2025)