Synopsis
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
Season 11
SurvivalHow the earliest humans spread around the world, adapting and surviving against the odds.50m2
Age of EmpireThe story of the first empires which laid the foundations for the modern world.50m3
The Word and the SwordCharting the spiritual revolutions that shook the world between 300 BC and 700 AD.50m4
Into the LightThe Middle Ages, when Vikings explored and pillaged.50m5
Age of PlunderEurope's rise from piracy to private enterprise.50m6
RevolutionA time when people worldwide rose up in the name of freedom and equality.50m7
Age of IndustryHow Britain's Industrial Revolution created the modern world.50m8
Age of ExtremesThe atom bomb and other developments in the twentieth century – our age.50m
SurvivalHow the earliest humans spread around the world, adapting and surviving against the odds.50m2Age of EmpireThe story of the first empires which laid the foundations for the modern world.50m3The Word and the SwordCharting the spiritual revolutions that shook the world between 300 BC and 700 AD.50m4Into the LightThe Middle Ages, when Vikings explored and pillaged.50m5Age of PlunderEurope's rise from piracy to private enterprise.50m6RevolutionA time when people worldwide rose up in the name of freedom and equality.50m7Age of IndustryHow Britain's Industrial Revolution created the modern world.50m8Age of ExtremesThe atom bomb and other developments in the twentieth century – our age.50mCast
