03: The Two Nations | Union with David Olusoga

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...

01: Martial Races | The World's War: Forgotten Soldiers of Empire

David Olusoga challenges our perceptions of the First World War with the stories of the millions of Indian,...

01: Profit and Loss | Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners

In 1834 Britain abolished slavery, a defining and celebrated moment in our national history. What has been largely for...

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...

Episode 3 | Empire with David Olusoga

David Olusoga reveals how the Empire reached its maximum size after the First World War but within a generation had begun to collapse, ...

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...

03: Empire | Timelines

An epic sweep through the social history of Britain, from the Norman Conquest to the Miners' Strike.

Episode 2 | Empire with David Olusoga

David Olusoga reveals how the loss of the American colonies led to the colonisation of Australia and how the Indian indenture system wa...

03: The Jewel in the Crown | British History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

Lucy explores how British history is a concoction of fibs. She debunks the fibs that surround t...

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

The story of the Independence of India.

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...

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...

Treatment of Aboriginals in Australia | Empire with David Olusoga

David explains the horrendous treatment of the Aboriginal peoples of Tasmania by the British.

01: A Taste for Power | Empire

Jeremy Paxman begins by asking how such a small country got such a big head and came to rule a quarter of the world.

06: 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.

Transportation of Convicts to Australia | Empire with David Olusoga

David explains how Britian sent their problem convicts abroad to the colonies for cheap labour, and many ...

07: Soldiers of Empire | Not Forgotten

In this special edition of Not Forgotten, Ian Hislop uncovers the overlooked stories of soldiers from across the British Empire who fo...

20th Century World: 02: The British Empire | History File

The programme uses silhouette images and archive material to illustrate the life of the fictitious Grant family who...

Learning Zone | The Birth of Empire: The East India Company

A compilation of short films made specially for schools on the rise and fall of the East India Company, which acc...

10: India: The Brightest Jewel | Twentieth Century History

Programme covers events in India from the 1930s to Independence and Partition in 1947.