00: Learning Zone | Andrew Marr’s History of the World

Duration: 1'18'57''

Synopsis

Andrew Marr presents a selection of stories from his History of the World, specially rewritten for key stage 3 pupils. He explores ten key events.

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More clips from Andrew Marr's History of the World

01: Survival | Andrew Marr's History of the World

01: Survival | Andrew Marr's History of the World

BBC One | 2012 | 59'26''

Andrew Marr traces 70,000 years of history, beginning with the earliest humans. From Africa, they spread around the world, ...

02: Age of Empire | Andrew Marr's History of the World

02: Age of Empire | Andrew Marr's History of the World

BBC One | 2012 | 58'55''

In this episode, Andrew Marr tells the story of the first empires which laid the foundations for the modern world.

03: The Word and the Sword | Andrew Marr's History of the World

03: The Word and the Sword | Andrew Marr's History of the World

BBC One | 2012 | 59'17''

In this episode, Andrew Marr examines the spiritual revolutions that shook the world between 300 BC and 700 AD.

04: Into the Light | Andrew Marr's History of the World

04: Into the Light | Andrew Marr's History of the World

BBC One | 2012 | 59'14''

Andrew reaches the Middle Ages, when Vikings explored and pillaged from Northern Europe to North America.

05: Age of Plunder | Andrew Marr's History of the World

05: Age of Plunder | Andrew Marr's History of the World

BBC One | 2012 | 58'28''

Andrew tells the story of Europe's rise from piracy to private enterprise, starting with Columbus's discovery of Amer...

06: Revolution | Andrew Marr's History of the World

06: Revolution | Andrew Marr's History of the World

BBC One | 2012 | 58'55''

Andrew explores the Age of Revolution, when people across the world rose up in the name of freedom and equality.

07: Age of Industry | Andrew Marr's History of the World

07: Age of Industry | Andrew Marr's History of the World

BBC One | 2012 | 59'14''

In this episode, Andrew Marr tells how Britain's Industrial Revolution created the modern world.

08: Age of Extremes | Andrew Marr's History of the World

08: Age of Extremes | Andrew Marr's History of the World

BBC One | 2012 | 59'09''

In this episode, Andrew Marr brings the story right up to date with the twentieth century.

Adolf Hitler's rise to power | Andrew Marr's History of the World

Adolf Hitler's rise to power | Andrew Marr's History of the World

BBC One | 2012 | 8'50''

Andrew Marr discusses Hitler's rise to power from the end of the first world war.

Mansa Musa | Andrew Marr's History of the World

Mansa Musa | Andrew Marr's History of the World

BBC One | 2012 | 4'35''

The year is 1324 and Emperor Mansa Musa of Mali was about to burst upon the world.

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S01E02: Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand | Days That Shook the World

BBC Two | 2004 | 28'56''

How the duke's death led to the start of the First World War.

Suffragettes with Lucy Worsley

Suffragettes with Lucy Worsley

BBC One | 2018 | 1'28'57''

Documentary, presented by Lucy Worsley, which uses dramatised testimony to tell the story of a group of working-class women conducting a dange...

04: The Battle Against the Spanish Armada | Battlefield Britain

04: The Battle Against the Spanish Armada | Battlefield Britain

BBC Two | 2004 | 58'48''

Peter and Dan Snow take a look at the battles that shaped our nation. Drake's unlikely sea victory against th...

01: Medieval London | Filthy Cities

01: Medieval London | Filthy Cities

BBC Two | 2011 | 58'59''

Dan Snow gets down and dirty in medieval grime to discover how the London of today was forged in the filth of the 14th century.

S01E04: Hiroshima | Days That Shook the World

S01E04: Hiroshima | Days That Shook the World

BBC Four | 2003 | 59'15''

Documentary recalling 6 August 1945, when the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, with testimony from American colonel Paul Tib...

Clare Balding's Secrets of a Suffragette

Clare Balding's Secrets of a Suffragette

Channel 4 | 2013 | 46'51''

In 1913 Suffragette Emily Davison stepped into the path of the King's horse at the Derby. Clare Balding examines the story of Emily,...

Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot

Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot

BBC One | 2002 | 27'58''

In a one-off precursor to his Historyonic's series, Nick Knowles gets a behind-the-scenes look at why a Yorkshire-born zealot called Guy Fa...

04: Revolution | Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain

04: Revolution | Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain

BBC Two | 2007 | 59'20''

Andrew Marr revisits the Britain of Margaret Thatcher and comes to some surprising conclusions about the British nat...

S01E10: The Assassination of JFK | Days That Shook the World

S01E10: The Assassination of JFK | Days That Shook the World

BBC Two | 2003 | 29'42''

The stories of a day that rocked the American presidency: the assassination of its youngest leader, John F. Kenn...

Dunkirk (2017)

Dunkirk (2017)

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Hundreds of thousands of British and Allied troops find themselves in an impossible situation. Christopher Nolan's epic wartime action thriller.

The Somme: From Defeat to Victory

The Somme: From Defeat to Victory

BBC One | 2006 | 58'23''

Drama-documentary which offers a new perspective on the most infamous battle of World War I, revealing how it was on the Somme that the Bri...

03: Paradise Lost | Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain

03: Paradise Lost | Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain

BBC Two | 2007 | 58'34''

As the 1960s progress, Harold Wilson takes centre stage in a rapidly changing Britain as the country looks to a f...

02: The Land of Lost Content | Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain

02: The Land of Lost Content | Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain

BBC Two | 2007 | 58'44''

The 1950s were a period of apparent calm, order and prosperity for Britain, but much of the populace w...

05: The Battle of Naseby | Battlefield Britain

05: The Battle of Naseby | Battlefield Britain

BBC Two | 2004 | 58'58''

Peter and Dan Snow take an in-depth look at the battles that shaped our nation using state-of-the-art graphics. They go back t...

They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)

They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)

BBC Two | 2018 | 1'35'05''

Transforming archive footage more than a century old, Peter Jackson brings to life the people who can best tell the story of World War I: the ...

Selma (2014)

Selma (2014)

BBC Two | 2017 | 1'58'38''

Biopic chronicling the three-month period in 1965 which saw Dr Martin Luther King Jr lead a turbulent march from Selma to Montgomery in a bid to secure equal vo...

05: Sewer King | Seven Wonders of the Industrial World

05: Sewer King | Seven Wonders of the Industrial World

BBC Two | 2003 | 48'36''

As 19th century London's sewage problem reached crisis point and cholera was rife, Joseph Bazalgette proposed a scheme...

The Children of the Holocaust

The Children of the Holocaust

BBC Two | 2014 | 58'21''

Powerful animated films, in which elderly Jewish Holocaust survivors tell their stories of Nazi persecution in their childhood and how they esc...

05: 1968 Vietnam | Peter and Dan Snow: 20th Century Battlefields

05: 1968 Vietnam | Peter and Dan Snow: 20th Century Battlefields

BBC Two | 2007 | 58'47''

Peter and Dan Snow reveal the techniques use by US marines to flush out Communist fighters who lived in a ne...

1917 (2019)

1917 (2019)

BBC One | 2022 | 1'48'00''

During the First World War, two soldiers are ordered across no-man's-land and deep into enemy territory to deliver a message. If they fail, an entire battalion, ...

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Andrew Marr goes on a journey through a day in the life of Britain as seen from the skies.

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02: Born Equal? | Andrew Marr on Darwin's Dangerous Idea

02: Born Equal? | Andrew Marr on Darwin's Dangerous Idea

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Andrew Marr explores Darwin's impact on politics and society, including how the theory of natural selection has been...

01: A New Dawn | Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain

01: A New Dawn | Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain

BBC Two | 2009 | 57'33''

Andrew Marr revisits Britain at the dawn of the 20th century. He finds the country mourning the death of Queen Vi...

02: The Land of Lost Content | Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain

02: The Land of Lost Content | Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain

BBC Two | 2007 | 58'44''

The 1950s were a period of apparent calm, order and prosperity for Britain, but much of the populace w...