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Status: Ended
First Aired: June 16, 2016
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 3
Networks: BBC Four
Genres: Documentary

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Genius of the Modern World(2016)

TMDB Rating: 7.4 (10 votes)

Overview

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 • 2016Avg: 8.8

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	Marx	Jun 16, 2016	8.5
2	Nietzsche	Jun 23, 2016	9.0
3	Freud	Jun 30, 2016	0.0

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