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Civilisations is a 2018 British art history television documentary series produced by the BBC in association with PBS as a follow-up to the original 1969 landmark series Civilisation by Kenneth Clark. Individual episodes are presented by Simon Schama, Mary Beard, and David Olusoga, with music composed by Tandis Jenhudson. The PBS release differs in several respects, including series narration by Liev Schreiber.
Original Release
03/01/2018 on PBS
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Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Liev Schreiber | Narrator / Self - Narrator |
| Simon Schama | Self - Presenter / Self - Columbia University |
| Maya Jasanoff | Self - Havard University / Self - Harvard University |
| Mary Beard | Self - Presenter |
| David Olusoga | Self - Presenter / Self - Historian |
| Jonathan Jones | Self - Art Critic & Historian |
| Jay Xu | Self - Asian Art Museum of San Francisco |
| Wulf Hein | Self / Self - Experimental Archaeologist |
| Salima Ikram | Self - The American University in Cairo |
| Benito Jesús Venegas Durán | Self - Archaeologist |
| # | Title | Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Second Moment of Creation | Thursday, 01 March 2018 |
| 2 | How Do We Look | Thursday, 01 March 2018 |
| 3 | Paradise on Earth | Thursday, 01 March 2018 |
| 4 | Picturing Paradise | Thursday, 01 March 2018 |
| 5 | The Triumph of Art | Thursday, 01 March 2018 |
| 6 | First Contact | Thursday, 01 March 2018 |
| 7 | Radiance | Thursday, 01 March 2018 |
| 8 | The Cult of Progress | Thursday, 01 March 2018 |
| 9 | The Vital Spark | Thursday, 01 March 2018 |
Directors
Matthew Hill, Tim Niel, Ashley Gething
Writers
Simon Schama, David Olusoga, Mary Beard
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Liev Schreiber | Narrator / Self - Narrator |
| Simon Schama | Self - Presenter / Self - Columbia University |
| Maya Jasanoff | Self - Havard University / Self - Harvard University |
| Mary Beard | Self - Presenter |
| David Olusoga | Self - Presenter / Self - Historian |
| Jonathan Jones | Self - Art Critic & Historian |
| Jay Xu | Self - Asian Art Museum of San Francisco |
| Wulf Hein | Self / Self - Experimental Archaeologist |
| Salima Ikram | Self - The American University in Cairo |
| Benito Jesús Venegas Durán | Self - Archaeologist |
| Rebecca Gonzalez-Lauck | Self - National Institute for Anthropology, Mexico |
| Jack Davis | Self - University of Cincinnati |
| Esther Pasztory | Self - Columbia University (professor emerita of Pre-Columbian art history) |
| Sharon Stocker | Self - University of Cincinnati |
| William Fash | Self - Harvard University |
| Barbara Fash | Self - Harvard University |
| Xiuzhen Li | Self - University College, London |
| Antony Gormley | Self - Sculptor |
| Andrew Stewart | Self - UC Berkeley |
| Rupert Till | Self - University of Huddersfield, England |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| Erin E. O'Flaherty | Executive Producer |
| Jane Root | Executive Producer |
| Denys Blakeway | Executive Producer |
| Michael Jackson | Executive Producer |
| Mark Bell | Executive Producer |
| Jonty Claypole | Executive Producer |
| Billie Shepherd | Producer |
| Joanna Marshall | Producer |
| Melanie Fall | Producer |
| Caroline McCool | Producer |
| Ian Macmillan | Producer |
| Matthew Hill | Producer |
| Ewan Roxburgh | Producer |
| Scarlet Moore | Producer |
| Ian MacMillan | Producer |
| Caroline Buckley | Producer |
| Ashley Gething | Producer |
