Coolies – How Britain Re-invented Slavery

01: 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 w...

06: Age of Empire | Seven Ages of Britain

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

06: 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 ...

04: 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 m...

03: 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 I...

S03E03: 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 ...

02: 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 ...

Empire Christmas Pudding | Hairy Bikers' Best of British

Ivan Day explains a version of Christmas Pudding called the Empire Christmas Pudding that featured many ingredients ...

S03E05: The Independence of India | Days That Shook the World

The story of the Independence of India.

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...

03: War | Suez: A Very British Crisis

How the invasion of Egypt caused an international outcry and the end of Eden's career.

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...

Can Partnership Succeed? | Panorama

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

S02E04: The Wrong Empire | A History of Britain by Simon Schama

Simon Schama traces the steps of the empire-makers, asking how a trading enterprise based on the idea of libe...

S07E04: Mau Mau | Secret History

The story behind a bitter conflict during the last phase of the British Empire, which saw the Mau Mau attack white settlers in a savage bid ...

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...

Episode 1 | Empire with David Olusoga

David Olusoga tells the story of the British Empire, from its origins under Elizabeth I to the establishment of colonies in America, th...

Black Peoples of the Americas: 01: The Atlantic Slave Trade | History File

The development of the triangular trade is described from its ancient origins, through the Europea...

Mahatma Gandhi | Icons

Mahatma Gandhi employed non violent tactics of passive resistance in the face of the largest empire the world had ever known, he not only helped to se...

Episode 1 | The Birth of Empire: The East India Company

Dan Snow travels through India in the footsteps of the company that revolutionised British lifestyles and laid the fo...