3: War | Suez: A Very British Crisis

1: Why Britain? | Empire: How Britain Made The Modern World

In this programme we learn about the origins of the British empire in the 17th century and how its foundations we...

6: Age of Empire | Seven Ages of Britain

David Dimbleby travels through Britain, America and India, tracing the British Empire from 1750 to 1900.

3: The Mission | Empire: How Britain Made The Modern World

Following the religious revival that started in the late 18th century, missionaries began working in Africa and In...

Episode 1 | My Family, Partition and Me: India 1947

Anita Rani marks the 70th anniversary of the Partition of India by exploring its impact on four British families, includi...

S3E3: The Empire of Good Intentions | A History of Britain by Simon Schama

How the liberal politics and free-market economics of the British Empire unravelled, leading to th...

The Day India Burned - Partition

Documentary about the effects of Britain's withdrawal from India in 1947. 15 million were displaced and more than a million lose their lives...

3: The Two Nations | Union with David Olusoga

The 19th-century union appears secure, but beneath the surface run deep divisions, leading to the emergence of a new working-cl...

4: Heaven's Breed | Empire: How Britain Made The Modern World

In this programme we discover how a few thousand British people ruled over India, a country of more than 250 mi...

British colonialism and Kenyan tea | This World

Simon Reeve investigates the colonial history that has shaped both the landscape and tea trade in Kenya.

The Boston Tea Party | Victoria Wood's Nice Cup of Tea

Victoria Wood tells the story of the Boston Tea Party.

2: White Plague | Empire: How Britain Made The Modern World

The concept of 'plantation' is explored in this programme, referring not to crops but the settlement of British p...

6: Empire for Sale | Empire: How Britain Made The Modern World

The fall of the British empire is usually attributed to nationalist groups fighting for independence, yet as N...

S3E5: The Independence of India | Days That Shook the World

The story of the Independence of India.

1: 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 bro...

2. On trial | The Compass

Ken Saro Wiwa and Ledum Mittee come face to face with the power of the Nigerian state.

3: Lady Constance Lytton | Shoulder to Shoulder

1908: Constance Lytton: daughter of the Viceroy of India, she came from one of the leading families in the land. Almost any d...

Black Classical Music: The Forgotten History

Lenny Henry and Suzy Klein celebrate black classical composers and musicians across the centuries whose stories and music have l...

British-Chinese Relations | Victoria Wood's Nice Cup of Tea

Victoria Wood investigates the history of British- Chinese relations through the tea trade.

Can Partnership Succeed? | Panorama

James Mossman reports on the relationship between Europeans and Africans in the federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.

Episode 2 | My Family, Partition and Me: India 1947

Anita Rani and her mother Lucky become the first members of their family to return to what is now Pakistan since the Part...