Timewatch

The Master Builders

Directed by Antonia Benedek, Jon Bentley, Jane Thynne
TV-PG
S5 • E3    Mar 6, 1986    55m
Three films presented from the British Museum reveal how visionaries and others dealt with the 'outsider' as they set out to perfect a society, a state and a national image at the turn of the 19th century.

Film 1: English reformers constructed a new prison system - only to find that within 20 years it was a total failure.

Film 2: The Brothers Grimm falsified their country's original folk tales to define behaviour 'acceptable to the architects ' of the new Germany.

Film 3: Satirical cartoonists vilified the national characteristics of the Welsh, the Scots and the Irish to build up the concept of pure Englishness.

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