Terry Jones's Barbarians - Season 1

Terry Jones's Barbarians - Season 1

Season 1

Network
Episodes4
DatesMay 26, 2006 - Jun 16, 2006

Episodes

The Primitive Celts
Season 1Episode 150 min

The Primitive Celts

New series in which Terry Jones discovers untold truths about early cultures subjugated by Rome, drawing on archaeological evidence that has recently come to light. The first programme explores Julius Caesar's reasons for attacking the Celts in 58BC, revealing his motives had more to do with acquiring wealth than protecting the Empire
May 26, 2006
The Savage Goths
Season 1Episode 250 min

The Savage Goths

Terry Jones investigates claims that early Germans, Dacians and Goths were nothing but primitive brutes : a theory supported by their merciless besieging of Rome in 9AD. In contradiction however, he learns they were well-respected as exemplary fighters by their Roman counterparts, and played a major part in the defence of the Empire
Jun 2, 2006
The Brainy Barbarians
Season 1Episode 350 min

The Brainy Barbarians

In Greece and Iran, Jones argues that far from being a godless rabble of swarthy bruisers in tiny skirts, it seems the barbarians of Greece and Persia were peaceable boffins whose innate humanity saw them develop what were, in essence, welfare states.
Jun 9, 2006
The End of the World
Season 1Episode 450 min

The End of the World

Around 400AD two Barbarian babies were born. One would grow up to become the fiercest of them all - Attila the Hun. The other, Geiseric, led the greatest wreckers in history - the Vandals. Jones finds out that Roman civilisation wasn't entirely destroyed by the invasion of these tribes the and how the Roman Catholic Church survived to tell the Roman version of the truth.
Jun 16, 2006

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