05: The Mesopotamians | What the Ancients Did for Us

03: The Aztecs, Maya and Incas | What the Ancients Did for Us

Roving reporter Hermione Cockburn describes Aztec, Mayan and Incan inventions, including chocolate, suspension ...

01: Beginnings | Michael Wood: The Story of India

Michael Wood journeys through the subcontinent, tracing the diversity of its peoples, cultures and landscapes. He charts th...

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

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

01: The Islamic World | What the Ancients Did for Us

Adam Hart-Davis builds and tests some of the most extraordinary inventions from the early Islamic World.

06: The Britons | What the Ancients Did for Us

Adam Hart-Davis and Jamie Darling examine the highlights of ancient British technology.

S01E01: Age of Ice | A History of Ancient Britain

Neil Oliver travels back to ice age Britain as he begins the epic story of the evolution of the land and its occupants over...

S01E02 | Hidden Wales with Will Millard

Will Millard visits mid-Wales and the west of the country and uncovers a lead mine that is thousands of years old.

01: New Dawn | Walking with Beasts

The series following on from Walking with Dinosaurs. begins 49 million years ago. The world is heavily forested and birds rule the planet,...

02: Whale Killer | Walking with Beasts

36 million years ago mammals ruled the world. It is in the sea, however, that the most monstrous mammals can be found.

03: Land of Giants | Walking with Beasts

25 million years ago in the Oligocene Epoch lived the Indricotheres. Weighing 15 tonnes and standing 7 metres tall, they were the la...

04: Next of Kin | Walking with Beasts

We travel back 3 million years to Ethiopia, where Australopithecus, one of the first upright apes, lived in danger of being hunted by s...

04: The Indians | What the Ancients Did for Us

Adam Hart-Davis builds and tests some of the greatest inventions from the ancient Indian world.

05: Sabre Tooth | Walking with Beasts

This episode follows the progress of a Smilodon called Half Tooth. Smilodon was the largest of all the sabre tooth cats which roamed So...

06: Mammoth Journey | Walking with Beasts

Last in the series follows a herd of mammoths as they make their way south for winter, running a gauntlet of ice-age hunters includ...

Amanirenas | Africa's Great Civilisations

Henry Louis Gates Jr investigates Amanirenas, the Queen of the Kingdom of Kush.

Bronze Age Britain | Learning Zone

Life in Bronze Age Britain through the eyes of one family as they learn how copper and tin is mined, and make bronze using a furnace.

Bronze Age Stonehenge gold | Learning Zone

There are also lots of barrow burials around Stonehenge and one of them, Bush Barrow Man, is used to find out about Bronze Age times.

Bronze Age: making metal | Learning Zone

Raksha visits Butser Ancient Farm to make a bronze age axe head exactly the way Bronze Age man would have done so.

Bronze Age: wool | Learning Zone

Raksha visits the Bronze Age at an ancient farm and learns how to make woollen cloth.

Early humans and the development of culture | Africa's Great Civilisations

Henry Louis Gates Jr investigates early human migration from Africa and the development of culture...