Genius of the Modern World

Name: Genius of the Modern World
Genre: Documentary

2016·1 Season·3 Episodes·★ 7.6

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Historian Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of three great thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world - Karl Marx, Frederick Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud.

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Season 1

3 episodes

2016

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