02: Capital and Culture | Alexei Sayle’s Liverpool

01: A People Stolen | Enslaved with Samuel L Jackson

Samuel L Jackson and a team of journalists and divers explore 400 years of slavery. What happened to the 12 million ensl...

02: A Precious Cargo | Enslaved with Samuel L Jackson

Samuel L Jackson examines how, for over 400 years, the transatlantic slave trade became the greatest wealth-generating ...

03: Resistance | Enslaved with Samuel L Jackson

Samuel L Jackson and the team travel through the US to tell the stories of those who resisted slavery, often making the dange...

The Windrush Generation | Black and British: A Forgotten History

David Olusoga discusses the Windrush Generation.

Bunce Island | Black and British: A Forgotten History

David Olusoga visits Bunce Island, where the first slave fortress was built in the 17th century.

02: Sugar Dynasty | The Slavery Business

A drama-documentary chronicling the true story of the Beckford family, a ruthless 18th-century dynasty which ran Britain's first glo...

John Blanke | Black and British: A Forgotten History

David Olusoga discusses Catherine of Aragon's black servants.

03: Breaking the Chains | The Slavery Business

In a story hidden for 200 years, the real heroes of the battle against slavery are revealed. They were political activists, ma...

04: Our People | Enslaved with Samuel L Jackson

Samuel L Jackson and the team examine the events that ended the slave trade and piece together the heritage and identity take...

Mississippi cotton | Black and British: A Forgotten History

David Olusoga discusses the cotton industry in Mississippi and how it fuelled Britain's industrial revolution.

01: The Colour of Money | Racism: A History

In its first episode the series begins by assessing the implications of the relationship between Europe, Africa and the Americas ...

01: How to Make a Million from Slavery | The Slavery Business

A wordy drama based on the life of British slave trader Henry Lascelles begins a season of programmes about sla...

03: Empires of Gold | Africa's Great Civilisations

Henry Louis Gates travels to the shores of the Sahara Desert to see the transformation of north and west Africa.

African Roman soldiers in Northern England | Black and British: A Forgotten History

David Olusoga visits Hadrian's Wall and discusses the Roman history of black soldiers.

Granville Sharp | Black and British: A Forgotten History

David Olusoga discusses Granville Sharpe and Jonathan Strong's roles in the abolition of slavery.

Implements of torture | Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners

David Olusoga views the implements of torture that slave owners used to enforce the slave plantation system.

Lancashire cotton famine | Black and British: A Forgotten History

David Olusoga explains how the American civil war caused a cotton famine in Lancashire.

The beginnings of the British slave trade | Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners

David Olusoga investigates the beginnings of the British slave trade in Barbados.

04: A Son of Africa | Hidden Empire

1792, London: former slave Olaudah Equiano has bought his freedom and lives a comfortable life in England. But his white, God-fearing nei...

04: Cities | Africa's Great Civilisations

This episode looks at the powerful, cosmopolitan cities that dotted Africa at the time when Europe was in its Middle Ages.