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02: Scotland's Smoking Gun | Referendum Documentaries

Documentary series focused on the upcoming Scottish referendum. This first programme looks at some of the worldwide eve...

06: What Women Want | Referendum Documentaries

In this programme, Jackie Bird investigates the reasons for the apparent gender gap at the centre of the campaign for Scottish...

Spread Of The Communist Ideology | Genius of the Modern World

The Bolshevik Revolution kickstarted the shift towards communism, but Russia didn't have the predicted variable...

The Communist Manifesto | Genius of the Modern World

In 1847, poor crop growth leading to famine brought political unrest which inspired the commissioning of Marx and Engels...

09: Janet's Scotland | Referendum Documentaries

Writer and broadcaster Janet Street-Porter is in Scotland to find out more about the referendum and some of the issues behind...

Capitalism | Genius of the Modern World

The woe of society according to Marx was western life was based on capitalism and that while our ''species essence'' is productive, i...

Later Life | Genius of the Modern World

In 1849, Marx went to London and lived in the slums of Soho with his wife and four children, where he was spied on by Prussian spies.

03: Five Million Ways to Be Scottish | Referendum Documentaries

Documentary series focused on the upcoming Scottish referendum. Stuart Cosgrove asks what it means to be Scot...

04: Scotland's Top Ten Battlegrounds | Referendum Documentaries

A look at the results of a BBC poll ranking the ten most important issues in the independence referendum, wit...

05: Referendum Connections | Referendum Documentaries

Sarah Smith takes a look at the early careers of Alex Salmond, Nicola Sturgeon, Alistair Carmichael, Johann Lamont and ...

07: Blethering Referendum - Part 1 | Referendum Documentaries

Comedian Sanjeev Kohli takes a humorous look at the referendum on independence and explores the questions that ...

08: Blethering Referendum - Part 2 | Referendum Documentaries

Comedian Sanjeev Kohli takes a humorous look at the referendum on independence and explores the questions that ...

10: The Games People Play | Referendum Documentaries

John Beattie investigates the potential influence a successful Commonwealth Games may have on the way Scots vote in the ...

11: Mind Games | Referendum Documentaries

Documentary in which Ken MacDonald explores the psychological techniques used by both campaigns to influence how people vote in the...

12: What's in It for Me? | Referendum Documentaries

Laura Kuenssberg meets some of the Scottish working public, and attempts to find out how the outcome Scottish referendum ...

13: How the Campaign Was Won | Referendum Documentaries

Following Scotland's historic vote on independence, this programme looks at what went on behind the scenes of both ca...

Das Kapital | Genius of the Modern World

Bettany and an economic journalist use the example of an 1860s 9-year-old boy who worked a 15-hour shift every day as the benchmark ...

Early Life | Genius of the Modern World

Bettany Hughes looks at the early bourgeois life of Karl Marx in Prussia.

Economic Organisations | Genius of the Modern World

From slavery to the industrial revolution, Marx and Engels realise that its economic organisations that drive the change ...

Engels | Genius of the Modern World

Engels was also from a bourgeois Prussian family and shared similar views on capitalism.