My compliments to Christopher Clark for telling Europe's story in such a interesting and fascinating way. This should be broadcasted in all European countries on national tv.
Wow! My first and only visit to Europe was last summer; I stayed three weeks in France. This documentary has made me see even my visit in a completely different light. Chris Clark, you're the man!
Great work and great presentation by Mr. Clarke. I salute him for his effort of educating the people of europe about it's, origin, existence, reforms, progress, humane quality of people, wars, extermination of Jews, etc. Long live europe and all the other continents of the world.
All 6 parts were very interesting; well done work . Europe always in motion. Present time shows how Europe is at the end of transition and close to a very big change again....
Excellent documentary, although I'm an immigrant from non EU country, I like your optimistic view of based on history going back to 3000 years. If all Europeans work together like this, putting away nationalism aside.
The banana myth continues! 40:22 Bananas have always been classified by quality and size for international trade. Because the standards, set by individual governments and the industry, were confusing, the European Commission was asked to draw up new rules. Commission regulation 2257/94 decreed that bananas in general should be “free from malformation or abnormal curvature”. Those sold as “extra class” must be perfect, “class 1” can have “slight defects of shape” and “class 2” can have full-scale “defects of shape”. Nothing is banned under the regulation, which sets grading rules requested by industry to make sure importers - including UK wholesalers and supermarkets - know exactly what they will be getting when they order a box of bananas.
Thanks for this informative documentary. I have a few comments: Being part of the EU means losing national identity, language, culture, unique Christian beliefs (EU is secular) and way of life, which as shown in the documentary, has taken thousands of years to develop and evolve. More importantly, competition between European nations has been lost, which has resulted in poorer EU nations being supported by the wealthy nations. This downgrades the potential of the individuals from the poor states (demotivates the individuals), since the national aim is lost and as a result they become dependent on wealthy EU members for generations to come. In addition, the EU has benefitted wealthy members by selling their products in the larger market within the EU community. Also, illegal immigration is difficult to manage within EU as a whole, as the poor member states must take a huge number of refugees by force. Moreover, the traditional relation between the EU member countries with countries outside of the EU has become meaningless because of the rules and restrictions created by the EU. Furthermore, EU with all its institutions and power which was created (after WWII) and aimed to prevent war and not to get engaged into a war, failed to find a solution to resolve the problem between Russia and Ukraine and as a result they are indirectly drawn into a war. Finally, if this war continues and spreads (not stopped), it may result in a nuclear war which will bring disaster to the European continent. We need to wait and see whether the formation of the EU after two disastrous European wars, has genuinely helped to prevent further disasters.
None of your arguments make the EU useless nor make "independent nationalism state" idea better...Agree that the EU shall tackle with all the problems you mentioned but the creation of the EU is the cause of those problems
What a lot of nonsense. The war in Ukraine isnt the fault of the EU. Actually, Putin would love to see the EU dismantled and divided. To defend Europe the EU needs to be even more united and speak with one voice on the global stage.
Having Europe be one big country will be as useful to mutual understanding as watching a documentary (like this one) that has people talking in 10 different languages without subtitles.
Love watching to the program, I would like know more about the countries around the Adriatic Sea , do you have a program that covers those countries other than Italy?
8:00 Nice, don't translate, so that people watching won't be able to understand. I'll do you one better, cut out the entire section altogether... or maybe Idunno, just translate it?
"For 700 years muslims ruled the iberian penninsula" is false. Only Granada was ruled for that long. Most of the iberian penninsula was ruled for less. The north never was, the mid-north for over 50-100 years, the middle for 200-300, the mid-south 500 years (Navas the tolosa battle was in 1212) and Granada 700-800 years (which was caputed in 1492).
Actually it means that the Muslims stayed in the Iberia Peninsula for 781 years by becoming a major influence in that region and if you added up altogether those years.
Non-Europeans were never accepted into Europe in mass numbers. Historically this is the only truth. Even immigration between European countries was very selective and not that common.
@Andrei They are still not accepted as regular Germans, re regular Swedes and I suspect they never will be. 3rd generation turks in Germany still identity as turks.
Without the support and pressure of the US and Sovjetunion Germany would not be reunited in 1990. There was no European solidarty for this! Great Britian and France opposed the reunification, Poland mistrusted. There is more trust among the European Nations than between the governments.
1: A 4th power to be addressed, fiscal power in the hands of individuals seems prudent, rather than a few representatives in the legislative, executive and judicial branches (likely fewer wars of incredible expense, if the few war hawks need to raise funds from the people rather than easily printing out and inflating from the treasury); 2: Celtic and Swiss direct democracy may be better than representative; 3: Technologies and secular knowledge in today's modern world enable individual and direct monetary and voting control, rather than old world ideologies and capabilities.
Quite informative series although a little bit hindsight-applying. But that is inevitable. Fair enough. However, this last episode engaged already way too much in spewing the mainstream propaganda and empty clichés about democracy, solidarity, diversity, bla, bla, bla, all that. I perceived it to be so obvious that it even lead me to asking this question: ''Who financed the production of it?'' (No need to answer. With the sixth episode it became very apparent that it was the globalist kleptocrats from Brussels.) In my opinion, the series should have concluded after the fifth episode. Plus the propagandistic aim would have remained more (even if not completely) hidden. Goebbels once said: ''The most effective propaganda is the propaganda where nobody knows that it is propaganda. Propaganda must not be observable. Propaganda must be aimed at the subconscious.'' I was observing propaganda throughout the series. With the fifth episode it was becoming a little bit too obvious and this sixth episode already seemed like an advertisement TV spot (albeit extended into 50 minutes in length).
This last video made me a little sad...Me living in Romania i can see all this propaganda for the west. You didn't even mentioned about the fall of communism in december 1989 in Romania,but you talked about other events from that year. You glorified so much the west and glorified Ucrain so many times(if this "war" didn't existed,did you even mentioned Ucrain? I don"t think so). It's such a huge gap between western europe and eastern europe. The people from west don't really understand yhe balkan countries and i think this last video was a great way to talk more about them. I think the west would see us different. Maybe after a non european is watching this video will say "what a big happy family!" No it's not,and we will never be! This positivity that you see in this video is not true. We still have our argumesnts and will always have them.
From one to five series, a true great job... But last one sucks, it's too ideological and Western mind. Chris Clark should do a documentary about all crimes of USA. Does nobody know about that?
I would have loved to see the impact of the great flood in days of Noah on the movement of people to Europe after the fact. We have to assume that the sons of Noah was the forefathers of all nations. Certainly mankind restarted again after the flood?.
According to modern day theologians, the "world" of Noah and the Bible was limited to what the Hebrews of ancient Levant knew. That is, in actual fact, the flood only aftected parts of the Middle East. This would mean that while everyone is related to Adam, not everyone is related to Noah.
As a non-European, the EU is like a blind date, romantic dramas with each other, sweet talk, and relationships. But later things get old, and they lose interest in each other but self-interest. The truth color appears, and time to get a divorce. The European culture is individual, corrupt, and selfish. Materialistic, arrogant, and prejudiced, with this norm and attitute is difficult for solidarity union. It is first humanity and compassion. Politicians and lawmakers never understand.
@@Jeroen080679 I got his point, he explains well the positive but the truth also has negative. When it comes to $$$ and power, no such thing is a real friend. Brexit explains it, who is next? Please look at both sides, not only half.
@@jparsit Yes, I have looked at both sides. Since Brexit the UK has gone autocratic, financially unreliable, people are getting poor and the conservatives have demonstrated that 12 and more years in power they have done nothing constructive with the exception of making a more divided society. Yes, we have learned a lot about a Eu country leaving a fraternal block and supporting the divisive action of putin and...accepting his money also.
@@jparsit Well, I haven't expressed any opinion about the EU as of yet, so there was no need to look at both sides, was there? I just hadn't got a clue what you we're talking about. But of course I know both sides of the EU. I don't want to debate it, but the bottom line is; the EU is the least worst solution for Europe.
The best history documentary of Europe I've seen to date. Very well structured and always puts things in perspective. Bravo!
thank you soo much for this comment! Keep watching 😍
Thanks Christopher Clark for this wonderful series on European history.
My compliments to Christopher Clark for telling Europe's story in such a interesting and fascinating way. This should be broadcasted in all European countries on national tv.
His voice is also beautiful
Extraordinary series, expertly done. Really enjoyed this.
Hat off for the 6 Documentary series. Thank you for sharing.
Amazing that Chris Clark understands and speaks so many languages fluently!!
I came to understand Europe as never before. Thank you!
Bravo!
Muchas gracias.
I thoroughly enjoyed this. Was going to watch it over a few days but watched it right through in 2 sittings.
Excellent series, my faith in this format is renewed 😊
Wow! My first and only visit to Europe was last summer; I stayed three weeks in France. This documentary has made me see even my visit in a completely different light. Chris Clark, you're the man!
Your crew is amazing! This is a treasure... thank you...
Thank you for sharing this series.
Watched from Part 1 to 6 in a day love never watched a better history of Europe documentary ❤️☀️
Great work and great presentation by Mr. Clarke. I salute him for his effort of educating the people of europe about it's, origin, existence, reforms, progress, humane quality of people, wars, extermination of Jews, etc. Long live europe and all the other continents of the world.
Felicitaciones Sir Christopher Clark. Disfrute' de todos los capitulos de esta serie sobre la Historia de Europa. Muchas Gracias.
My sympathy and support to this documentar.❤
All 6 parts were very interesting; well done work . Europe always in motion. Present time shows how Europe is at the end of transition and close to a very big change again....
Excellent documentary 👏👏👏👏
soros gave a huge paket of money like 1987
Is there no book to accompany this series? All six parts were superbly presented here.
Excellent documentary, although I'm an immigrant from non EU country, I like your optimistic view of based on history going back to 3000 years. If all Europeans work together like this, putting away nationalism aside.
If you love history and respect Europe to me you are a Brother as much as other Europeans. Race is secondary ❤️❤️🇪🇺
Please come back with an update, great series.
Brilliant six part series! Interesting as it is informative and educational. Thanks very much for posting and be safe 🙏
This is Gold. In all schools and national tvs you should Show this
Peace and prosperity above all ❤️
What a brilliant series, dont recall this being on British TV though, hummmm
of course Not💀💀💀
I wish uk was still in 🇪🇺
I’m lifting up my wine in one hand and beer in the other to salute your comprehensive documentary series.
The banana myth continues! 40:22
Bananas have always been classified by quality and size for international trade. Because the standards, set by individual governments and the industry, were confusing, the European Commission was asked to draw up new rules.
Commission regulation 2257/94 decreed that bananas in general should be “free from malformation or abnormal curvature”. Those sold as “extra class” must be perfect, “class 1” can have “slight defects of shape” and “class 2” can have full-scale “defects of shape”.
Nothing is banned under the regulation, which sets grading rules requested by industry to make sure importers - including UK wholesalers and supermarkets - know exactly what they will be getting when they order a box of bananas.
Thank you so much
A very enjoyable and informative series
It is a great ride...
Gorbachev was a great stateman who foreseen the consequences of isolation and decided to change the course of history!!! RIP Mr General Secretary
Thank you clarke ....very informative... 🖐️
Super
You didn't talk about Eastern European countries, and Balkans 😭
However, great series!
Important perspective
Thanks for this informative documentary. I have a few comments: Being part of the EU means losing national identity, language, culture, unique Christian beliefs (EU is secular) and way of life, which as shown in the documentary, has taken thousands of years to develop and evolve. More importantly, competition between European nations has been lost, which has resulted in poorer EU nations being supported by the wealthy nations. This downgrades the potential of the individuals from the poor states (demotivates the individuals), since the national aim is lost and as a result they become dependent on wealthy EU members for generations to come. In addition, the EU has benefitted wealthy members by selling their products in the larger market within the EU community. Also, illegal immigration is difficult to manage within EU as a whole, as the poor member states must take a huge number of refugees by force. Moreover, the traditional relation between the EU member countries with countries outside of the EU has become meaningless because of the rules and restrictions created by the EU. Furthermore, EU with all its institutions and power which was created (after WWII) and aimed to prevent war and not to get engaged into a war, failed to find a solution to resolve the problem between Russia and Ukraine and as a result they are indirectly drawn into a war. Finally, if this war continues and spreads (not stopped), it may result in a nuclear war which will bring disaster to the European continent. We need to wait and see whether the formation of the EU after two disastrous European wars, has genuinely helped to prevent further disasters.
None of your arguments make the EU useless nor make "independent nationalism state" idea better...Agree that the EU shall tackle with all the problems you mentioned but the creation of the EU is the cause of those problems
What a lot of nonsense. The war in Ukraine isnt the fault of the EU. Actually, Putin would love to see the EU dismantled and divided. To defend Europe the EU needs to be even more united and speak with one voice on the global stage.
As a. European... thank you!
Having Europe be one big country will be as useful to mutual understanding as watching a documentary (like this one) that has people talking in 10 different languages without subtitles.
Love watching to the program, I would like know more about the countries around the Adriatic Sea , do you have a program that covers those countries other than Italy?
8:00 Nice, don't translate, so that people watching won't be able to understand. I'll do you one better, cut out the entire section altogether... or maybe Idunno, just translate it?
Recent data showed that in countries like Scandinavia, Wine is preferred over beer while in countries like Spain, Beer is more consumed than wine.
Crazy reversal
Can't believe this bloke is an Aussie from the same city as me. Sounds like a proper pommy now!
"For 700 years muslims ruled the iberian penninsula" is false. Only Granada was ruled for that long. Most of the iberian penninsula was ruled for less. The north never was, the mid-north for over 50-100 years, the middle for 200-300, the mid-south 500 years (Navas the tolosa battle was in 1212) and Granada 700-800 years (which was caputed in 1492).
Actually it means that the Muslims stayed in the Iberia Peninsula for 781 years by becoming a major influence in that region and if you added up altogether those years.
Non-Europeans were never accepted into Europe in mass numbers. Historically this is the only truth. Even immigration between European countries was very selective and not that common.
@Andrei They are still not accepted as regular Germans, re regular Swedes and I suspect they never will be. 3rd generation turks in Germany still identity as turks.
This is complete and utter nonsense.
@@Jeroen080679 Great argument.
Nor should they be accepted in any numbers. Europe for Europeans.
Oh yeah? So the Huns, the Moors, the Turks… they all were never accepted after they completely relocated to Europe, huh? 😂 Ok sure
subtitles?
Without the support and pressure of the US and Sovjetunion Germany would not be reunited in 1990. There was no European solidarty for this! Great Britian and France opposed the reunification, Poland mistrusted.
There is more trust among the European Nations than between the governments.
Now it’s another 30 year from 1990 the trust is much more. That was only 50 year After the war can you blame France ?
1: A 4th power to be addressed, fiscal power in the hands of individuals seems prudent, rather than a few representatives in the legislative, executive and judicial branches (likely fewer wars of incredible expense, if the few war hawks need to raise funds from the people rather than easily printing out and inflating from the treasury);
2: Celtic and Swiss direct democracy may be better than representative;
3: Technologies and secular knowledge in today's modern world enable individual and direct monetary and voting control, rather than old world ideologies and capabilities.
24:06 You see the irony? It's a Portuguese complaining about delays and bureaucracy. 🤯
Some historians interpret WWI and WWII as one continuous war with a pause in between.
very interesting but such a large subject in a few hours....and better not to insert political opinions in a historical series.
Quite informative series although a little bit hindsight-applying. But that is inevitable. Fair enough. However, this last episode engaged already way too much in spewing the mainstream propaganda and empty clichés about democracy, solidarity, diversity, bla, bla, bla, all that. I perceived it to be so obvious that it even lead me to asking this question: ''Who financed the production of it?'' (No need to answer. With the sixth episode it became very apparent that it was the globalist kleptocrats from Brussels.) In my opinion, the series should have concluded after the fifth episode. Plus the propagandistic aim would have remained more (even if not completely) hidden.
Goebbels once said: ''The most effective propaganda is the propaganda where nobody knows that it is propaganda. Propaganda must not be observable. Propaganda must be aimed at the subconscious.'' I was observing propaganda throughout the series. With the fifth episode it was becoming a little bit too obvious and this sixth episode already seemed like an advertisement TV spot (albeit extended into 50 minutes in length).
pushing the usual myth that EU is security. only NATO has stopped further war in europe
First time they don’t want to erase history or the West but they make a documentary gloryfying it is beautiful
@11:20 this is not Danzig. We call it Gdansk!
Divertissant ! Instructif !! HUMAIN !!! mais incomplet ! Vivement + Luc Labbe, d Saint-Jean-,Port-,Joli Québec Canada
I’m an American and not pro EU BUT I think things would be less hostile if the immigration issue was resolved. That and encourage the birth rate.
EU is the only way. It has to be reform within
Come back to Europe if your ancestor were European Save our birth Rate ❤️❤️🇪🇺
Over 6 hours and no mention of the hands of the masons.
The slaves sleep
Pourquoi la Russie occidentale n'est pas membre de l'UE ? en question ??
But know he is Dead and other people hate Putin
This last video made me a little sad...Me living in Romania i can see all this propaganda for the west. You didn't even mentioned about the fall of communism in december 1989 in Romania,but you talked about other events from that year. You glorified so much the west and glorified Ucrain so many times(if this "war" didn't existed,did you even mentioned Ucrain? I don"t think so). It's such a huge gap between western europe and eastern europe. The people from west don't really understand yhe balkan countries and i think this last video was a great way to talk more about them. I think the west would see us different.
Maybe after a non european is watching this video will say "what a big happy family!" No it's not,and we will never be! This positivity that you see in this video is not true. We still have our argumesnts and will always have them.
From one to five series, a true great job... But last one sucks, it's too ideological and Western mind. Chris Clark should do a documentary about all crimes of USA. Does nobody know about that?
I would have loved to see the impact of the great flood in days of Noah on the movement of people to Europe after the fact. We have to assume that the sons of Noah was the forefathers of all nations. Certainly mankind restarted again after the flood?.
According to modern day theologians, the "world" of Noah and the Bible was limited to what the Hebrews of ancient Levant knew. That is, in actual fact, the flood only aftected parts of the Middle East. This would mean that while everyone is related to Adam, not everyone is related to Noah.
@@tabibuhamadi31 Not everyone is related to Adam
The Tibetian Plateau certainly would not have flooded
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As a non-European, the EU is like a blind date, romantic dramas with each other, sweet talk, and relationships. But later things get old, and they lose interest in each other but self-interest. The truth color appears, and time to get a divorce. The European culture is individual, corrupt, and selfish. Materialistic, arrogant, and prejudiced, with this norm and attitute is difficult for solidarity union.
It is first humanity and compassion. Politicians and lawmakers never understand.
I don't understand at all what you're on about.
But I do think you do not at all understand what prof. Clark is trying to tell us.
@@Jeroen080679 I got his point, he explains well the positive but the truth also has negative. When it comes to $$$ and power, no such thing is a real friend. Brexit explains it, who is next? Please look at both sides, not only half.
@@jparsit Yes, I have looked at both sides. Since Brexit the UK has gone autocratic, financially unreliable, people are getting poor and the conservatives have demonstrated that 12 and more years in power they have done nothing constructive with the exception of making a more divided society. Yes, we have learned a lot about a Eu country leaving a fraternal block and supporting the divisive action of putin and...accepting his money also.
@@jparsit Well, I haven't expressed any opinion about the EU as of yet, so there was no need to look at both sides, was there? I just hadn't got a clue what you we're talking about.
But of course I know both sides of the EU. I don't want to debate it, but the bottom line is; the EU is the least worst solution for Europe.
@@sailor67duilio27 Thanks, very informative.
Not 1ths you mention Romania in all 6 episode
Great Britain is not Eu
Very biased!
Leftist propaganda
How 😂?
24.12 👍
India Tak note
Barat aaya ki j
yes to EU principles, no to EU government
Gross globalist-leftist tint to everything in this series. I'd rather have watched a full blown Marxist take than this tired tripe.
Eu .
New sovjet union
الثورة الثورة
على سوسو كبارى
وسيسى لانكا الطيار
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What 😂 how
I saw in Paris 😮 this summer of 2023...
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