Holland's past
Season 1
“A never-ending bog, on the farther side of coastlines”
Created by: Charles Groenhuijsen
Network: VPRO
Season aired: 2008-10-12
Overview
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
About This Season
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
Episodes · 8
Lost stories (Prehistory-500)
How God appeared in the Lower Lands (500-1500)
Religion, rebellion and republic (1500-1600)
William the Silent goes to battle with the Spanish king Filips II.
The Golden Age (1600-1700)
The golden age is the age in which everything seems to succeed. Arts and science flourish as never before.
Between decline and enlightenment (1700-1815)
The civilized nation (1815-1918)
‘Corinthianland’ at war (1918 tot 1949)
