“Just as Francis Schaeffer’s “How Shall We Then Live” challenged a generation to take action, Geoffrey Botkin’s The Battle for Civilization will be heralded by future generations as a series that helped expose the efforts to emasculate Christendom through the instrument of history. The greatest heroes of history embodied a masculine faith that is rarely taught in either the church, or society, today. In recovering the real story, Botkin paves the way for the courageous reform America so desperately needs. In times of crisis, nations need great communicators and Geoffrey Botkin is certainly one of ours.”
Dr. T. E. Moffitt
Chairman, Family Policy Network
Adjunct Professor of School Law in the graduate program, Columbia International University

“Geoffrey Botkin’s historical understanding does not stop at research and mundane record but always leads to keen analysis and vivid interpretation in writing and film. Botkin’s clear eye sees through to the presuppositions and philosophy behind intellectual and social movements and their promotion of or opposition to Christian civilization. As a teacher Geoffrey Botkin is nonpareil — a sharp biblical analyst and lucid communicator.”
William E. Potter
Historian and Curator of the Circa History Guild

“The need for this project could not be greater. Botkin combines watertight, visionary thinking with aesthetic power. The Battle for Civilization will contain ideas and concepts that could change the present course of American history. Perhaps no man is more qualified to bring this panoramic worldview message of hope to the 21st century Church than Geoffrey Botkin.”
Douglas W. Phillips, Esq.
President, The Vision Forum

“Geoffrey Botkin is a true scholar and artist. Without exception, everyone I know in our profession looks to him as a master in understanding and using media to impact the culture.”
Colin Gunn
Award-winning Documentarian

“Geoffrey Botkin reminds us that we must take an honest look at where we have been if we truly want to know where we are going. Moreover, in an age of moral, intellectual and spiritual decline, he is one of the few men who has the wisdom, intelligence, and integrity necessary for the kind of introspection and analysis that true cultural transformation requires.”
Dr. Voddie Baucham
Alliance for Church and Family Reformation

“After spending over three decades traveling America and speaking on restoring a biblical worldview to our failing culture, I have found no one in our country more lucid and insightful as a speaker and thinker than Geoffrey Botkin. He is one of the foremost leaders who are bringing reformation to America.”
Dr. Marshall Foster
President, Mayflower Institute

Pre-production research began in early 2008 with digital hardware and software experiments, interviews with historians, location scouting and research. Noah Botkin found one of the research sites uniquely fascinating and filed a short ENN report.

The Battle for Civilization is an ambitious seven-part television series. It represents a fresh and creative look at the little-known turning points in world culture that led to periods temporary civilization. The content will help viewers apply some very practical knowledge to the challenges of the 21st century.

The series will give average American men the intellectual tools they need to face the disintegrating disciplines of economics, science, history, art, politics and religion.

In terms not generally used by today’s tenured academics, viewers will learn about

• The changing pop culture over the centuries and what influenced the changes
• The changing customs of manhood and the three great periods of chronic cowardice in men
• The four worst civil wars and what made them so brutal
• The savage barbarity of the European tribes and how they learned civility in the 2nd Century
• The greatest kings who ever lived and what character traits made them great
• How the science of theology assessed all other sciences in the 16th Century
• Why the “dark” ages were not dark at all and why historians misunderstand this period
• How America’s founding grandfathers first changed the world from Switzerland
• How Western civilization taught men to be men
• The real history of literacy and how it changed men
• How the courage of five martyrs inspired freedom
• The seven greatest moments of bravery in history

One of the best kept secrets of history reveals that any culture, even the most pagan and violent, can actually be rebuilt into orderly, superior civil society.

This knowledge must be recovered as America stumbles weakly into the 21st century. There is no reason for American men to be confused about the past and uncertain about the future. The Battle for Civilization goes boldly behind the battle lines of history’s most important culture wars. Few historians have ever explained the issues at stake in the seven pivotal events of the last 2000 years. This program carefully points out the unique connections that have driven history forward and upward.