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The Silk Road
1980 · TV series · documentary · 50 min episodes · 3 seasons
The Silk Road is a documentary television series produced by the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) that was first broadcast during the 1980s. The travelogue traced the ancient Silk Road from Chang'an (modern day Xi'an) to Rome covering the history, archaeology, culture, religion, and art of countries along the route.
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There is a really cool documentary on Amazon Prime about the Silk Road that I recommend. The guy goes to cities that were on it and tours them in the present. You can see how they have changed and how powerful they used to be.
https://www.amazon.com/The-Silk-Road/dp/B07W4XYPPC
>looks like many "BBC Four Classic Documentaries Collection" programs of the last century get the same treatment
Fair enough, it may be that the warning is just a generic one slapped on all their old repeats, but I do think that commissioning a new ten minute introduction from Mary Beard is going above and beyond. I haven't seen it so didn't want to speak too much on it, but from what I gathered it's a mixture of measured praise and blame for Clarke's eurocentrism.
>I have Civilisation in hardcopy
It's a good series, I would recommend it if you haven't already seen it. (My biggest gripe with the BBC rebroadcasting it is that it prompted them to take down from youtube the copy I was in the middle of watching!) By the way, for a more xenophilic production of similar scope, you might wish to take a look at The Silk Road[0].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silk_Road_(Japanese_TV_series)
After watching the old NHK/CCTV Silk Road documentary, I really wanted to visit this region. Humans suck when we let our ideology be stronger than our humanity. http://www.infocobuild.com/books-and-films/social-science/silk-road/episode-08.html
I’ve thought the punishment of Ross was extremely too harsh: life in prison without the possibility of parole. I know the government paints this picture of him as a major drug smuggler, but I think we in the tech world are smarter than that and realize creating a platform is different than selling. After all, are EBay and Amazon liable for all the counterfeit things on their page? Should Bezos go to jail?
I also think the Silk Road story would be a fascinating 2-season, 20 episode series on Netflix. Read the story linked below for a great 2 hour read.
- https://www.wired.com/2015/04/silk-road-1/