Andrew Marr's History of the World
Season 1
2012 • 8 Episodes
Episodes
1. Survival
★5.0
September 23, 2012
How the earliest humans spread around the world, adapting and surviving against the odds.
2. Age of Empire
★5.0
September 30, 2012
The story of the first empires which laid the foundations for the modern world.
3. The Word and the Sword
★5.0
October 7, 2012
Charting the spiritual revolutions that shook the world between 300 BC and 700 AD.
4. Into the Light
★5.0
October 14, 2012
The Middle Ages, when Vikings explored and pillaged.
5. Age of Plunder
★5.0
October 21, 2012
Europe's rise from piracy to private enterprise.
6. Revolution
★5.0
October 28, 2012
A time when people worldwide rose up in the name of freedom and equality.
7. Age of Industry
★5.0
November 4, 2012
How Britain's Industrial Revolution created the modern world.
8. Age of Extremes
November 11, 2012
The atom bomb and other developments in the twentieth century – our age.