Journalist Afua Hirsch explores how African countries are throwing off their colonial pasts and becoming 21st-century...
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Egypt captivates us like few other ancient civilizations, but what was it like to live there? Egyptologist Joann...
Archaeologist and historian Richard Miles explores the roots of civilization in Iraq, Syria, Turkey, North Africa, Egypt...
Colourized archival footage tells the story of the First World War, taking us to the battlefields, the strategy rooms...
Berlin 1945 looks back at the city's most fateful year through the eyes of those who experienced it: the German...
Sixty years of Cuba's history and its place in the world is explored, with views from every side - the Cubans, the...
Professor Joann Fletcher explores what it was like to be a woman of power in ancient Egypt - from the realities of...
Historian Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of three great thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world - Karl Marx...
Mary Beard investigates the real Julius Caesar, separating fact from fiction and revealing how his influence is still...
Historian and author Helen Castor explores how people in the Middle Ages handled life's most fundamental moments of...
British historian Mary Beard puts aside the stories of Emperors and armies, blood, guts and gore, to take a fresh look...
Acclaimed British horticulturist Monty Don heads across the Channel to find out what makes French gardens, and the...
World-famous gardener Monty Don takes us on a trip around Italy's most beautiful gardens.
Monty Don travels across the Islamic world and beyond in search of Paradise Gardens, whose beauty and symbolic meaning...
Leading experts examine events that have shaped our world over the past 30 years, including the collapse of the Soviet...
Historian Mary Beard answers questions that have fascinated people for centuries. How could a mediocre city in central...
In Medieval and Tudor England there was no question in peoples' minds – men ruled and women didn't. Historian Helen...
Journalist Afua Hirsch explores why people are uncomfortable with the true history and legacy of Britain's heroes.
Explore the impact of the world's huge gold mines, tiny artisanal mines and the ever-expanding gold financial industry...
Kate Humble travels through India, Sri Lanka and Indonesia, discovering how spices were once so coveted that a small...
From the settlement of the Nile by a handful of nomads to the building of the pyramids and the burial of King Tut...
Fake news is nothing new. Since the dawn of civilization, people in power have played with the truth, danced with...
Experts illuminate moments in Winston Churchill's life that informed his decisions during the war, revealing how he...
Rob Bell reveals the secrets of the historic ships that shaped the world. He visits each of these monumental vessels as...
Big mines, big markets, big deals and big disasters result in pollution and corruption that the big players don't want us to see.
Afua explores how a younger generation of Moroccans are updating old traditions in often surprising ways, creating exciting and daring new art, music, weaving and photography.
Captain James Cook led the HMS Endeavour on a voyage that would change the course of history and enable the European "discovery" of Australia and New Zealand.
The Titanic became the most infamous ship in history when it crashed into an iceberg and sunk in icy Atlantic waters. Rob travels to Belfast to discover the story of the Titanic's design and construction.
Rob joins a team of mariners and historians who are restoring a full-scale replica of the Mayflower - a three-masted sailing ship that carried the first European settlers to the North American coast.
The RSS Discovery took Scott and Shackleton to Antarctica to conduct scientific and geological research. Rob travels to Dundee to visit the original RSS Discovery and uncover the secrets of the ice ship.
The RMS Queen Mary was the pinnacle of luxurious ocean-crossing liners, and its first-class accommodations attracted such luminaries as the Queen, Winston Churchill and Elizabeth Taylor.
The construction of the HMS Ark Royal influenced every new aircraft carrier vessel built after it.
History has produced a steady stream of "influencers," from apostles to ad men, doctors to despots. Each, in their own way, is proof of just how fluid and fragile the truth can be.
From the era of the Old Testament to the European witch hunts, Canada's residential schools and the rise of Creationism in the US, religion has proven a reliable tool to brandish political power.
Ancient Worlds
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City of Man, City of God
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Truth & Lies
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The Politics of Religion
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From the era of the Old Testament to the European witch hunts, Canada's residential schools and the rise of Creationism...