Describe a TV documentary you watched that was particularly interesting
You should say:
1. What the documentary was about
2. Why you decided to watch it
3. What you learn during the documentary
and explain why the TV documentary was particularly interesting
𝐌𝐎𝐃𝐄𝐋 𝐀𝐍𝐒𝐖𝐄𝐑:
My friend, a political science teacher at a local college, and I often 𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐮𝐞 about 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 the large 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐬 in 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 of our world. And to prove our points and arguments, we try to watch TV documentaries, especially the documentaries on “important political events” in history and collect information from them. Today, I would like to talk about one such documentary which I watched about a year ago which was quite interesting.
The documentary, I want to talk about, was on 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥 of 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐄𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞. It, of course, was a series of documentaries which tried to discuss 600 years of history of the Roman Empire in as much depth as possible 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫.
It has one particular episode on the Roman republic days with the problems of northern Gallic tribes, and then it also talks about the role of Caesar in shaping the empire and 𝐬𝐨 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡. By the way, I already had learned a little about the history of the Roman Empire, by reading different kinds of books and watching some historical facts on TV before, but this particular documentary taught me a great deal about the history of western civilization as a whole.
However, what was really 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 about this documentary was that it really tried to 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭 a very popular view that the Romans were bad people and also the enemy of Christianity but they become good people after 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 Christianity. Besides, the documentary taught me a very crucial point (which other people may not agree with) and that is, our human history is 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐮𝐭 the history of numerous wars and conflicts.
Anyway, the TV documentary was particularly interesting to be me because it 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐲 𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 the flaws and greatness of the Roman civilization which also essentially is the civilization of Europe. I found it interesting also because Christian religion indeed 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐞 in shaping the European civilization even though many Europeans today like to disagree with it.