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Holland's past

A never-ending bog, on the farther side of coastlines

  • 2008
  • Ended
  • Documentary
  • ~50m / ep
  • 1 season

A series of eight episodes documenting 250.000 years of history. Charles Groenhuijsen takes us along sights and locations that historically harbored various inhabitants of ‘The Lowlands’. In what today is known as The Netherland, Belgium, Germany, New York, Ghana, Surinam, and Indonesia, Charles will be looking for the stories of ‘our’ past through potsherds, bones, stones, ancient text's, drawings, paintings, pictures, radio, and tv- fragments

Latest: Season 1 · 2008

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Charles Groenhuijsen takes us along sights and locations that historically harbored various inhabitants of ‘The Lowlands’. In what today is known as The Netherland, Belgium, Germany, New York, Ghana, Surinam, and Indonesia, Charles will be looking for the stories of ‘our’ past through potsherds, bones, stones, ancient text's, drawings, paintings, pictures, radio, and tv- fragments

  1. E1. Lost stories (Prehistory-500)

    Oct 12, 2008 · 50m

  2. E2. How God appeared in the Lower Lands (500-1500)

    Oct 19, 2008 · 50m

  3. E3. Religion, rebellion and republic (1500-1600)

    Oct 26, 2008 · 50m

    William the Silent goes to battle with the Spanish king Filips II.

  4. E4. The Golden Age (1600-1700)

    Nov 2, 2008 · 50m

    The golden age is the age in which everything seems to succeed. Arts and science flourish as never before.

  5. E5. Between decline and enlightenment (1700-1815)

    Nov 30, 2008 · 50m

  6. E6. The civilized nation (1815-1918)

    Nov 16, 2008 · 50m

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