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Castles FULL EPISODE | World's Greatest Engineering Icons | PBS America

From the citadel of Aleppo to the infamous London Tower, discover a variety of iconic, historic fortifications built to protect and defend territory, people and possessions.
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  • @pcatful
    @pcatful15 күн бұрын

    Sometimes I think future civilizations will look at these buildings (if they survive) and wonder why we were unable to build as well and as beautiful a thousand years later. It will look like civilization began to fail around the 20th century. And there may not be any trace of digitize record.

  • @mgithaiga1
    @mgithaiga1Ай бұрын

    I love castles

  • @ndertuesi75
    @ndertuesi758 күн бұрын

    Alhambra, it was just a thing about it which makes me really curious, I hope to visit it as it looks marvellous

  • @aiwithbri
    @aiwithbri27 күн бұрын

    I love how Bran got it right with the plastered and whitewashed walls. We don't have many examples showing us what castle walls really looked like after construction and during their use. While not all castle walls were adorned in that manner, a lot were and of course the interiors were painted and tapestries were hung for decoration. Usually all we get to see are the battered remains and their rough stone walls, that don't show the lavishness in which the occupiers existed in.

  • @attilapataki6639
    @attilapataki6639Ай бұрын

    finally someone getting Bran right, and Vlad Țepeș was also never there! And kudos for pronouncing Ceașescu ( not that he deserves his name pronounced correctly) and not Ciau-cesu!

  • @barbaralemons4741
    @barbaralemons474119 күн бұрын

    Well done!

  • @hmzdu
    @hmzduКүн бұрын

    We need subtitles

  • @2gulfalco
    @2gulfalcoАй бұрын

    No mention of Edinburgh Castle, really?

  • @trainwreck420ish

    @trainwreck420ish

    25 күн бұрын

    There's a lot of nice ones they missed. I'm surprised they didn't show killkenny castle myself.

  • @Alfablue227
    @Alfablue22727 күн бұрын

    The Tejo River in Lisbon is pronounced with a "J" sound (as Jamaica) not a G 😮sound!

  • @jugo1944

    @jugo1944

    12 күн бұрын

    Also, why is the thumbnail a relatively recent monument that's not part of a castle at all?

  • @christianwitness
    @christianwitness12 күн бұрын

    Interesting text.

  • @greykatz
    @greykatz29 күн бұрын

    Amazing what humans did before TV took up so much time.🤔

  • @trainwreck420ish
    @trainwreck420ish25 күн бұрын

    Ok, killkenny castle is way better looking, in my opinion than blarney castle in Ireland. And, you should have mentioned Heidelberg castle, instead of that wretched thing you shot lol. It's a descent documentary, bit more obscure castles would have been better. I'm sure, a lot of these places have three to four documentaries about them, or mentioned in for sure.

  • @jenl2530
    @jenl253024 күн бұрын

    No closed captioning, unfortunately.

  • @dmisso42
    @dmisso42Ай бұрын

    I wish the narrators of these historical videos would take the effort to learn how to pronounce the names correctly. Belem is pronounced Belae with a nasal "ae" (near as).

  • @christianwitness
    @christianwitness12 күн бұрын

    The music IS TERRIBLE.

  • @Avebelivable
    @Avebelivable19 күн бұрын

    need to read your script next time. The wall you show was built from roughly 1300 through 1600 Mongol invasion was1200s. Walls that have not been built stop nothing. That being said China had fortifications but nothing like what was shown. What was shown was built after the invasion not to stop one.

  • @gostaknochenhauer3978
    @gostaknochenhauer3978Ай бұрын

    The audio quality of the narrator is quite bad, exacerbated by the unnecessary music overlay. Also, subtitles are not available, so I quickly left.

  • @steveclark5357

    @steveclark5357

    Ай бұрын

    omg I hope you can recover

  • @graafisk

    @graafisk

    Ай бұрын

    That's a shame. You missed out on a spectacular documentary of still-visited castles throughout the world. Maybe something was wrong with your browser settings; I had zero problems watching this - and it was awesome! Narrator and music? - also not a problem.

  • @filmbuffo5616

    @filmbuffo5616

    Ай бұрын

    I had no problems understanding the narration, it sounded OK to me.

  • @wysockivi

    @wysockivi

    Ай бұрын

    nah im right with you. i had to scrub several times to see if that overlay ever stops. it doesnt.

  • @noahholland1795

    @noahholland1795

    28 күн бұрын

    Nah, it’s fine.

  • @jajajjajjaajjaa
    @jajajjajjaajjaa29 күн бұрын

    You lost me at Israel

  • @MomentsGap

    @MomentsGap

    26 күн бұрын

    Get lost then

  • @jajajjajjaajjaa

    @jajajjajjaajjaa

    26 күн бұрын

    @@MomentsGap 😂🤣

  • @SPierre-dm4wo

    @SPierre-dm4wo

    12 күн бұрын

    @@MomentsGap Butthurt zionists are hilarious.

  • @TijjaniSalisu-wq6zf
    @TijjaniSalisu-wq6zf28 күн бұрын

    Isn't Israel but Palestine