Living in the Netherlands | The Truth About Life Below the Sea That Should Have Drowned It | 4K

Living in the Netherlands, where a farmer milks his cows on grass that lies twenty feet below a sea he can watch from his own front door. From the January morning the canals freeze hard enough to carry a skater, through a hunger and a flood we won't name yet, and back to the candlelit December feast where they live today: one full year in a Zeeland polder village, told by someone whose family once left it. A quarter of this country sits below the waterline — a place that should have drowned, and instead feeds the world. 🌊 Like and subscribe for more films about the old country. Name the village your grandparents left. We read every one. If we got a detail of your homeland wrong, tell us in the comments and we will fix it. Mentioned in this video: Zeeland, polder, Kinderdijk, the Beemster lake, Flevoland, the Delta Works, the Eastern Scheldt Barrier, Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel, Pella (Iowa), Holland (Michigan), the 1953 North Sea Flood, Sinterklaas. Next time: Switzerland, where almost nobody can afford to own the house they were born in. #LivingIn #TheOldCountry #Netherlands #Zeeland #Dutch #DutchHeritage #Polder #Kinderdijk #DeltaWorks #NorthSeaFlood #Genealogy #Emigration #TravelDocumentary 00:00 Intro 01:34 The First Skater of Winter 05:03 Out Onto the Polder 08:47 Into Bram's Kitchen 11:25 The Plain Reformed Faith 13:47 From New Amsterdam to Wall Street 14:43 The Windmills at Kinderdijk 18:44 When the Sea Turns 21:56 The Hunger Winter 24:52 The Night the Bell Rang 28:57 What a Drowned Nation Decided 30:23 Outro