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Dates That Made History

2018 · 3 seasons

A calm, thoughtful historian walks you through famous dates, gently questioning what we think we remember.

Created by
Patrick Boucheron, Denis van Waerebeke
Genres
Documentary, War & politics
Starring
Patrick Boucheron, Étienne Nodet, Julien Loiseau
Overview
Historian Patrick Boucheron revisits the most important dates in history through the prisms of memory and collective imagination.

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Created by
Patrick Boucheron, Denis van Waerebeke
Genres
Documentary, War & politics
Starring
Patrick Boucheron, Étienne Nodet, Julien Loiseau
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Tone
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • memory
  • politics
  • power
  • war
  • identity
Places
None
Era
timeless
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
  • anthology
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
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ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour2
Realism9
Romance1
Tension3
Darkness4
Complexity6
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
documentary, war & politics
Created by
Patrick Boucheron, Denis van Waerebeke
Starring
Patrick Boucheron, Étienne Nodet, Julien Loiseau, Anne-Emmanuelle Veïsse, Timothy Tackett, François-Xavier Fauvelle, William Van Andriga, Michael Lucken
Length
3 seasons, 45 episodes, 27 min each
Network
ARTE
Country
France, United States of America
Languages
French

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