Duration: 59'02''
Presenter Michael Wood seeks out the achievements of India's golden age.
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1: Beginnings | Michael Wood: The Story of India
Michael Wood journeys through the subcontinent, tracing the diversity of its peoples, cultures and landscapes. He charts the...
2: The Power of Ideas | Michael Wood: The Story of India
Michael Wood shows how Alexander the Great's invasion of India inspired her first empire and how Buddha's ideas were...
3: Spice Routes and Silk Roads | Michael Wood: The Story of India
A look at India in the days of the Roman Empire. In Kerala the spice trade opened India to the world, whils...
5: The Meeting of Two Oceans | Michael Wood: The Story of India
The documentary series about the history of India charts the coming of Islam and one of the greatest ages of ...
6: Freedom | Michael Wood: The Story of India
Michael Wood examines the British Raj and traces the events that led to the Partition of India in 1947.
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Episode 1 | The Silk Road
Sam Willis traces the story of the famous trade route. He explores Venice's Renaissance architecture and art before travelling to the beginning of ...
The Crusades
Dr Thomas Asbridge re-examines the story of the Crusades. He traces the epic journey of the first crusaders as they marched from Europe to recapture the city of...
5: Age of Plunder | Andrew Marr's History of the World
Andrew tells the story of Europe's rise from piracy to private enterprise, starting with Columbus's discovery of America.
Hokusai: Old Man Crazy to Paint
Biography of the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), most famous for his print The Great Wave. It focuses on Hokusai's work, life...
Florence | Italy's Invisible Cities
Using the latest 3D scanning technology, Alexander Armstrong and Dr Michael Scott explore the romantic city of Florence.
1: Pilgrims in Arms | Crusades
Terry Jones explores the history of the Crusades, to discover exactly what happened when the Pope instigated a popular campaign to conquer Jer...
2: Cortes | Heroes and Villains
The Spanish adventurer Hernan Cortes is supposed to have taken the Aztec empire with a few soldiers and 16 horses. Can that be true?
Episode 1 | The Ottomans: Europe's Muslim Emperors
Rageh Omaar examines the history of the Ottoman empire. He starts by looking at the unlikely roots of the Ottomans, as nom...
Pilgrimage to Jerusalem | The Crusades
Thomas Asbridge discusses the first crusade to Jerusalem.
S2E1: The Kingdom of Asante | Lost Kingdoms of Africa
Asante in West Africa was a kingdom that was built on gold and slaves, which ensured its important place in an economy ...
The Chronicle of the Crusades | The Crusades
Thomas Asbridge discusses the noblemen that joined the crusades, some of who sought to chronicle the events.
The Night Journey | Jerusalem: The Making of a Holy City
Simon Sebag Montefiore discusses the Prophet Muhammad and his Night Journey to the The Furthest Sanctuary in Jerusal...
Venice | Italy's Invisible Cities
Using the latest 3D scanning technology, Alexander Armstrong and Dr Michael Scott explore the watery wonderland of Venice.
1: Medicine and Religion | History File
Programme begins with looking at Ancient Greece, then the Roman Empire then looking at Muslim and Christian links.
1: The Renaissance Arrives | A Very British Renaissance
Dr James Fox traces the story of how the arrival of a few foreign artists in the 16th century sparked a cultural revo...
2: Clash of the Titans | The Crusades
Dr Thomas Asbridge examines the two figures who have come to embody Crusader war: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin.
2: The Elizabethan Code | A Very British Renaissance
Dr James Fox examines the Elizabethans' love of codes and complexity, and the cultural revolution sparked by an age of e...
3: Victory and Defeat | The Crusades
Dr Thomas Asbridge reveals that the outcome of these holy wars was decided not on the hallowed ground of Jerusalem, but in Egypt.
4: Destruction | Crusades
Terry Jones reports on how Richard the Lionheart set out to battle with Saladin and on rise of Muslim fanaticism as a mirror to Christian ferocity.
2: Silk Roads and China Ships | The Story of China
Michael Wood explores the history of the world's newest superpower. Michael tells the tale of China's first international ...
3: Aethelstan: The First King of England | King Alfred and the Anglo Saxons
Michael Wood tells the tale of King Alfred's grandson Aethelstan, showing how he fulfilled the fa...
The Grammar School: A Secret History
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3: The Great Famine and the Black Death | Michael Wood's Story of England
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Christina: A Medieval Life
Historian Michael Wood presents a portrait of ordinary people living through extraordinary times, tracing the story of Christina Cok, a peasant of...
3: Across the Hindu Kush | In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great
Michael Wood treks over the Khawak pass, crosses the Oxus river and follows the golden road to Samarkand w...
Decline of the Mycenean Greek world | In Search of the Trojan War
Michael Wood discusses the decline of the Mycenaean Greek world.
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