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Dan Cruickshank's Warsaw: Resurrecting History

Season 1
Art and architecture historian Dan Cruickshank tells the remarkable history of the renewal and rebuilding of Warsaw after the Second World War. By 1945 Warsaw had been reduced to rubble, with the worst of the devastation caused during the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. But then something incredible happened. The people decided to reconstruct the Old Town, using old master paintings as a guide.
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  1. S1 E1 - Dan Cruickshank's Warsaw: Resurrecting History

    November 30, 2015
    49min
    TV-PG
    Art and architecture historian Dan Cruickshank tells the remarkable history of the renewal and rebuilding of Warsaw after the Second World War. By 1945 Warsaw had been reduced to rubble, with the worst of the devastation caused during the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. But then something incredible happened. The people decided to reconstruct the Old Town, using old master paintings as a guide.
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