Andrew Marr's History of the World

Andrew Marr's History of the World

2012
1 Season
8.0
Documentary

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

Survival
E1Sep 23, 201250m

Survival

How the earliest humans spread around the world, adapting and surviving against the odds.

Age of Empire
E2Sep 30, 201250m

Age of Empire

The story of the first empires which laid the foundations for the modern world.

The Word and the Sword
E3Oct 7, 201250m

The Word and the Sword

Charting the spiritual revolutions that shook the world between 300 BC and 700 AD.

Into the Light
E4Oct 14, 201250m

Into the Light

The Middle Ages, when Vikings explored and pillaged.

Age of Plunder
E5Oct 21, 201250m

Age of Plunder

Europe's rise from piracy to private enterprise.

Revolution
E6Oct 28, 201250m

Revolution

A time when people worldwide rose up in the name of freedom and equality.

Age of Industry
E7Nov 4, 201250m

Age of Industry

How Britain's Industrial Revolution created the modern world.

Age of Extremes
E8Nov 11, 201250m

Age of Extremes

The atom bomb and other developments in the twentieth century – our age.

Top Cast

Andrew Marr

Andrew Marr

Self - Presenter