Is the TV show Genius of the Modern World available on Netflix, Disney+, Prime or Apple TV+?

At Stream Tracker, here’s a quick guide to the BBC documentary series Genius of the Modern World (2016) and where you can stream it — Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video or Apple TV+. Presented by historian Bettany Hughes, the series follows an intellectual odyssey through the lives and ideas of Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud, tracing the revolutions in politics, philosophy and the psyche that helped shape modernity. Between on-location sleuthing, archival fragments and close readings of each thinker’s arguments — from class struggle and critique of capitalism to the will to power and the unconscious — the show maps the fault lines of contemporary thought. Read on to see the current availability across major platforms and where to watch each episode.

Synopsis

Bettany Hughes journeys into the private lives and turbulent times of Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud, uncovering how their ambitions, conflicts and experiments with ideas forged the foundations of modern politics, culture and psychology. Through intimate biography and historical context, the series shows how each thinker’s personal story became inseparable from the radical theories that continue to shape our world.

Release date

2016

Seasons / Episodes

1s / 3ep

Total duration

3h 0min

Rating

Country

Royaume-Uni

Genre(s)

Documentaire, Biographie, Histoire

Cast

Bettany Hughes