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...

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...

The Road to Palmyra

Documentary which follows historian Dan Cruickshank and photographer Don McCullin into war-torn Syria on a mission to document the cultural destruction w...

A History of Syria with Dan Snow | This World

Dan Snow travels to Syria to see how the current civil war has been shaped by the country's tumultuous history, unpicking the h...

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 ...

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.

17: Good Guys, Bad Guys: 1967-1978 | Cold War

Under Détente the superpowers continued their rivalry, but carefully avoided direct conflict by courting allies in the developi...

Baghdad | Panorama

Including a report by Adrian Crawley from Baghdad, Edward Ward speaking from the Hungarian Frontier, an interview by Christopher Chataway of an Australian...

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...

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...

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...

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...

02: 1967 | The Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs

Tracing the pattern of dramatic and covert events leading to the Six Day War of June 1967.

02: After the Fall | The Iraq War

Key insiders describe their roles in the chaotic aftermath of the defeat of Saddam Hussein.