Starring
Nigel Spivey
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How Art Made the World Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 8.0 | 8.1 | 7.8 | 8.0 | 8.2 | 7.8 |
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About
Nigel Spivey reveals how the images which surround us today come from the ancient world. It's an epic journey spanning five continents and a hundred thousand years of history.
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Season 12005
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Dr. Spivey takes viewers on a quest to comprehend mankind's unique capacity to understand and explain the world through artistic symbols. Speaking in colorful, non-technical language and aided by state-of-the-art computer graphics, Spivey explores the latest thinking by historians, neuroscientists and psychologists regarding the deep-seated and universal human desire to create art.
| Ep | Title | Rating | Yours | Votes | Runtime | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▶ | 1 | More Human Than Human | 8.1 | 51 | — | |
| ▶ | 2 | The Day Pictures Were Born | 7.8 | 37 | — | |
| ▶ | 3 | The Art of Persuasion | 8.0 | 29 | — | |
| ▶ | 4 | Once Upon a Time | 8.2 | 29 | — | |
| ▶ | 5 | To Death and Back | 7.8 | 27 | — |
Full Cast & Crew
Cast
Nigel Spivey Presenter
Vilayanur Ramachandran Self - University of California, San Diego
Stefano Mariottini Self - Fmr. Pakistan Commander
Dominic Ffytche Self - Institute of Psychiatry
James David Lewis-Williams Self - University of Witwatersrand
George Miller Self
David Attenborough Self
Neil Armstrong Self
Margaret Thatcher Self
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