Andrew Marr's History of the World — Season 1
About this season
Andrew Marr's History of the World is a 2012 BBC documentary television series presented by Andrew Marr that covers 70,000 years of world history from the beginning of human civilisation, as African nomadic peoples spread out around the world and settled down to become the first farmers, up to the twentieth century.
Episodes (8)
1. Survival
5.0Aired 23 September 2012 • 50 min
How the earliest humans spread around the world, adapting and surviving against the odds.
2. Age of Empire
5.0Aired 30 September 2012 • 50 min
The story of the first empires which laid the foundations for the modern world.
3. The Word and the Sword
5.0Aired 7 October 2012 • 50 min
Charting the spiritual revolutions that shook the world between 300 BC and 700 AD.
4. Into the Light
5.0Aired 14 October 2012 • 50 min
The Middle Ages, when Vikings explored and pillaged.
5. Age of Plunder
5.0Aired 21 October 2012 • 50 min
Europe's rise from piracy to private enterprise.
6. Revolution
5.0Aired 28 October 2012 • 50 min
A time when people worldwide rose up in the name of freedom and equality.
7. Age of Industry
5.0Aired 4 November 2012 • 50 min
How Britain's Industrial Revolution created the modern world.
8. Age of Extremes
Aired 11 November 2012 • 50 min
The atom bomb and other developments in the twentieth century – our age.