Terry Jones' Barbarians (2006)

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 4 episodes

Rating

8.6 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Terry Jones hosts a documentary series that questions the ancient Roman view of so-called barbarian groups. He argues that these peoples were more sophisticated than history books suggest.

informativethought-provokingrevisionistengagingconversationalenergeticskepticallively

What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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