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.
Sep 23, 2012 - 50m
How the earliest humans spread around the world, adapting and surviving against the odds.
Sep 30, 2012 - 50m
The story of the first empires which laid the foundations for the modern world.
Oct 7, 2012 - 50m
Charting the spiritual revolutions that shook the world between 300 BC and 700 AD.
Oct 14, 2012 - 50m
The Middle Ages, when Vikings explored and pillaged.
Oct 21, 2012 - 50m
Europe's rise from piracy to private enterprise.
Oct 28, 2012 - 50m
A time when people worldwide rose up in the name of freedom and equality.
Nov 4, 2012 - 50m
How Britain's Industrial Revolution created the modern world.
Nov 11, 2012 - 50m
The atom bomb and other developments in the twentieth century – our age.
