Andrew Marr's History of the World(2012)

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Overview

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.

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Episodes

Survival
Ep 1

Survival

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

23/09/201250 min
Age of Empire
Ep 2

Age of Empire

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

30/09/201250 min
The Word and the Sword
Ep 3

The Word and the Sword

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

07/10/201250 min
Into the Light
Ep 4

Into the Light

The Middle Ages, when Vikings explored and pillaged.

14/10/201250 min
Age of Plunder
Ep 5

Age of Plunder

Europe's rise from piracy to private enterprise.

21/10/201250 min
Revolution
Ep 6

Revolution

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

28/10/201250 min
Age of Industry
Ep 7

Age of Industry

How Britain's Industrial Revolution created the modern world.

04/11/201250 min
Age of Extremes
Ep 8

Age of Extremes

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

11/11/201250 min

Show Info

StatusEnded
NetworkBBC One
TypeMiniseries

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