# Civilisation: 13 -- Heroic Materialism

-----Another issue. 35 mm

Writer and narrator, Kenneth Clark

Surveys the development of western civilization during the 1900's as evidenced in the advance of technology shown through the work of Brunel, the designer of the Thames tunnel, and in the development of the atom bomb. Notes that the advance in technology and the importance attached to it have been accompanied by an upsurge in humanitarianism

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1969
- By: British Broadcasting Corporation, Time-Life Films
- Genres: Education, Science, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/civilisation13heroicmaterialism)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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