Terry Jones' Barbarians

Name: Terry Jones' Barbarians
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2006-05-26
Rating: 8.7
Cast: Terry Jones

Overview

Terry Jones' Barbarians is a 4-part TV documentary series first broadcast on BBC 2 in 2006. It was written and presented by Terry Jones, and it challenges the received Roman and Roman Catholic notion of the barbarian.

Professor Barry Cunliffe of the University of Oxford acted as consultant for the series.

Episodes

S01E01 The Primitive Celts

May 26, 2006 60 min

New series in which Terry Jones discovers untold truths about early cultures subjugated by Rome, drawing on archaeological evidence that has recently come to light. The first programme explores Julius Caesar's reasons for attacking the...

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S01E02 The Savage Goths

June 2, 2006 60 min

Terry Jones investigates claims that early Germans, Dacians and Goths were nothing but primitive brutes : a theory supported by their merciless besieging of Rome in 9AD. In contradiction however, he learns they were well-respected...

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S01E03 The Brainy Barbarians

June 9, 2006 60 min

In Greece and Iran, Jones argues that far from being a godless rabble of swarthy bruisers in tiny skirts, it seems the barbarians of Greece and Persia were peaceable boffins whose innate humanity saw them...

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S01E04 The End of the World

June 16, 2006 60 min

Around 400AD two Barbarian babies were born. One would grow up to become the fiercest of them all - Attila the Hun. The other, Geiseric, led the greatest wreckers in history - the Vandals. Jones...

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