S02E08: Terrorism: Assassination of Abraham Lincoln | Days That Shook the World

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...

Shot for Going to School

Schoolgirl Malala Yousafi was just 14 when she was shot for campaigning for girls' education in Pakistan. Nel Hedayat travels to the areas where the...

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...

Malala: Shot for Going to School | Panorama

One year ago, Malala Yousafzai was shot by the Taliban on her school bus. In this Panorama special, she talks exclusively to Mish...

At War: Crisis in the Middle East | Panorama

Panorama reports on the conflict between Israel and Hamas. Reporter Jane Corbin hears the human stories on both sides and asks w...

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...

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 ...

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...

14: Israel and the Arab States | Twentieth Century History

Schools history programme narrated by John Tidmarsh, looking at Palestine in the 1930s and the relationship betwee...

Episode 1 | How Facebook Changed the World: The Arab Spring

The story of how the Arab world erupted in revolution. Mishal Husain charts events in Tunisia and Egypt, meets le...

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...

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 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: 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...

Gertrude Bell | Icons

Almost erased from history, Bell was a trailblazing adventurer and spent years learning about the intricate politics of the Middle-East before becoming...

S03E06: Battle for the Holy City: The Six-Day War | Days That Shook the World

The Six-Day War, which began on June 5, 1967, resulted in Israeli control of the Gaza Strip, Si...

S03E08: The Iranian Revolution | Days That Shook the World

The departure of the Shah of Iran while Ayatollah Khomeini awaited in Paris.

Ultra Zionists | Louis Theroux

Louis Theroux spends time with ultra-nationalist Jewish settlers, who consider it their religious and political obligation to populate some of...

03: Fallujah | Once Upon a Time in Iraq

The infamous battle of Fallujah is told by eye-witness accounts from journalists, soldiers and civilians.