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The Smile of Reason

Name: The Smile of Reason
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1969-04-27
Duration: 50 min

Here Clark discusses the Age of Enlightenment tracing it from the polite conversations in the elegant Parisian salons of eighteenth-century, through the subsequent revolutionary politics to the great European palaces of Blenheim and Versailles finally to Jefferson's Monticello.

Aired: Apr 27, 1969 Genre: DocumentaryCasts: Kenneth ClarkCreated By: Kenneth ClarkProducers: Michael GillDuration: 50m Rating: 0 Country: Germany, United Kingdom, France, Italy Production: BBC

Seasons

Season 1

Episodes

01: The Skin of Our Teeth 02: The Great Thaw 03: Romance and Reality 04: Man: The Measure of all Things 05: The Hero as Artist 06: Protest and Communication 07: Grandeur and Obedience 08: The Light of Experience 09: The Pursuit of Happiness 10: The Smile of Reason 11: The Worship of Nature 12: The Fallacies of Hope 13: Heroic Materialism