Three films presented from the British Museum reveal how visionaries and others dealt with the 'outsider' as they set out to perfect a society, a state and a national image at the turn of the 19th century.
Film 1: English reformers constructed a new prison system - only to find that within 20 years it was a total failure.
Film 2: The Brothers Grimm falsified their country's original folk tales to define behaviour 'acceptable to the architects ' of the new Germany.
Film 3: Satirical cartoonists vilified the national characteristics of the Welsh, the Scots and the Irish to build up the concept of pure Englishness.
The Master Builders
Timewatch · Season 5 · Episode 3
Three films presented from the British Museum reveal how visionaries and others dealt with the 'outsider' as they set out to perfect a society, a state and a national image at the turn of the 19th century.
Film 1: English reformers constructed a new prison system - only to find that within 20 years it was a total failure.
Film 2: The Brothers Grimm falsified their country's original folk tales to define behaviour 'acceptable to the architects ' of the new Germany.
Film 3: Satirical cartoonists vilified the national characteristics of the Welsh, the Scots and the Irish to build up the concept of pure Englishness.
Film 1: English reformers constructed a new prison system - only to find that within 20 years it was a total failure.
Film 2: The Brothers Grimm falsified their country's original folk tales to define behaviour 'acceptable to the architects ' of the new Germany.
Film 3: Satirical cartoonists vilified the national characteristics of the Welsh, the Scots and the Irish to build up the concept of pure Englishness.
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Season
5
Episode
3
Air Date
06/Mar/1986
Air Time
21:00
Runtime
55 min
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