Holland's past

A never-ending bog, on the farther side of coastlines

50m1 Season

EnglishEnded

1 · Lost stories (Prehistory-500)

2 · How God appeared in the Lower Lands (500-1500)

3 · Religion, rebellion and republic (1500-1600)

4 · The Golden Age (1600-1700)

5 · Between decline and enlightenment (1700-1815)

6 · The civilized nation (1815-1918)

7 · ‘Corinthianland’ at war (1918 tot 1949)

8 · Blurred lines (vanaf 1949)

Crew and Cast

Charles Groenhuijsen

Charles GroenhuijsenCreator

Jan Decleir

Jan DecleirVoice

Elsie de Brauw

Elsie de BrauwVoice

Storyline

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

Holland's past poster

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Info

Original title: Het verleden van Nederland
Status: Ended
First aired: 12 October 2008
Last aired: 30 November 2008

Production

Created by: Charles Groenhuijsen
Studios: IDTV Docs, VPRO
Countries: Belgium, Germany, Ghana
Networks: VPRO

Episodes

Seasons: 1
Episodes: 8
Runtime: 50m
Type: Scripted
In production: No

Languages

Original: English
Spoken: Dutch