Athens: The Truth about Democracy

Athens: The Truth about Democracy is a British documentary which aired on Channel 4. The series premiered on July 21, 2007.

Athens is revered as the birthplace of Western philosophy, art, science and perhaps the greatest political idea of all time – democracy.

But in this fascinating documentary historian Bettany Hughes looks behind some of the myths of Athens’ golden age. She finds a very warlike and aggressive state, which was also capable of terrible mistakes, misdeeds and atrocities.