05: 1987-1991 | The Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs

S01E06: Kristallnacht | Days That Shook the World

Two days defined the fortunes of 20th-century Jews: Kristallnacht on September 9, 1938, a turning point in Nazi persecution...

The Settlers | Louis Theroux

Fourteen years after his first visit, Louis Theroux meets some of the growing community of religious-nationalist Israelis who have settled in th...

Episode 1 | How Facebook Changed the World: The Arab Spring

The story of how the Arab world erupted in revolution. Mishal Husain charts events in Tunisia and Egypt, meets le...

S03E08: The Iranian Revolution | Days That Shook the World

The departure of the Shah of Iran while Ayatollah Khomeini awaited in Paris.

01: Wellspring of Holiness | Jerusalem: The Making of a Holy City

Simon Sebag Montefiore begins a history of Jerusalem by exploring how it came into being and how it became ...

S01E06: The Birth of Israel | Days That Shook the World

Two days defined the fortunes of 20th-century Jews: Kristallnacht on September 9, 1938, a turning point in Nazi perse...

01: Betrayal | Suez: A Very British Crisis

Archive material, interviews, and dramatisations provide an insight into to the Suez crisis of 1956; the Egyptian uprising that br...

01: Regime Change | The Iraq War

This episode investigates how the US and Britain became convinced that Saddam possessed WMDs.

01: War | Once Upon a Time in Iraq

As war began, many Iraqis were hopeful. Ahmed Al Bashir, now a famous comedian, remembers practising his English with US troops before the...

S02E08: Terrorism: Assassination of Abraham Lincoln | Days That Shook the World

How the commercial airplane has been used as a terrorist weapon: the Black September hijackin...

S03E06: Battle for the Holy City: The Six-Day War | Days That Shook the World

The Six-Day War, which began on June 5, 1967, resulted in Israeli control of the Gaza Strip, Si...

Ultra Zionists | Louis Theroux

Louis Theroux spends time with ultra-nationalist Jewish settlers, who consider it their religious and political obligation to populate some of...

Episode 2 | How Facebook Changed the World: The Arab Spring

Mishal Husain meets those who spread the revolt to Libya and Bahrain, and those who are still fighting the Syrian...

Iran Hostage Rescue | Surviving Disaster

Recreates the failed operation to rescue 66 Americans taken hostage at the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979, a failure that cost Jimmy C...

S01E08: Lockerbie | Days That Shook the World

How the commercial airplane has been used as a terrorist weapon: the Lockerbie disaster in 1988.

The fall of the Ottoman Empire | Jerusalem: The Making of a Holy City

Simon Sebag Montefiore discusses the role that Britain played following the fall of the Ottoman Empire ...

01: 1948-56 | The Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs

In 1948, the state of Israel was proclaimed. This episode recounts how the US, later Israel's greatest ally, came clo...

03: Fallujah | Once Upon a Time in Iraq

The infamous battle of Fallujah is told by eye-witness accounts from journalists, soldiers and civilians.

05: Legacy | Once Upon a Time in Iraq

America eventually leaves Iraq, but when Isis emerges to take over huge swathes of the country, the US is forced back to confront the b...

Isis: Terror in Iraq | Panorama

An investigation into Isis and how it is ripping Iraq apart. Paul Wood speaks to members of the terror group and sees the fighting in Iraq fi...