02: The Age of Iron | Ancient Worlds

02: The Age of Iron | Ancient Worlds

Ancient Civilizations | BBC HD | 2010 | 58'29''

Richard Miles explores the roots of civilisation. He looks at the winners and losers of the Bronze Age collapse, and the powers that eme...

01: Come Together | Ancient Worlds

01: Come Together | Ancient Worlds

Ancient Civilizations | BBC HD | 2010 | 58'25''

Richard Miles explores the roots of civilisation. Starting in Uruk, the 'mother of all cities', in southern Iraq, he travels to Syria, Egy...

06: The Britons | What the Ancients Did for Us

06: The Britons | What the Ancients Did for Us

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Two | 2008 | 58'59''

Adam Hart-Davis and Jamie Darling examine the highlights of ancient British technology.

05: The Mesopotamians | What the Ancients Did for Us

05: The Mesopotamians | What the Ancients Did for Us

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Two | 2008 | 58'57''

Adam Hart-Davis builds and tests some of the greatest inventions from the world of the Mesopotamians.

04: The Indians | What the Ancients Did for Us

04: The Indians | What the Ancients Did for Us

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Two | 2008 | 59'03''

Adam Hart-Davis builds and tests some of the greatest inventions from the ancient Indian world.

03: The Aztecs, Maya and Incas | What the Ancients Did for Us

03: The Aztecs, Maya and Incas | What the Ancients Did for Us

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Two | 2008 | 58'57''

Roving reporter Hermione Cockburn describes Aztec, Mayan and Incan inventions, including chocolate, suspension ...

01: The Islamic World | What the Ancients Did for Us

01: The Islamic World | What the Ancients Did for Us

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Two | 2008 | 57'53''

Adam Hart-Davis builds and tests some of the most extraordinary inventions from the early Islamic World.

S01E08: Caveman Love: Part 2 (Song) | Horrible Histories

S01E08: Caveman Love: Part 2 (Song) | Horrible Histories

Ancient Civilizations | CBBC | 2009 | 1'25''

1950's doo-wop parody for the Stone Age.

S01E08: Ready Steady Feast: Stone Age | Horrible Histories

S01E08: Ready Steady Feast: Stone Age | Horrible Histories

Ancient Civilizations | CBBC | 2009 | 1'20''

Sampling the best in cave foods.

S01E08: Caveman Love: Part 1 (Song) | Horrible Histories

S01E08: Caveman Love: Part 1 (Song) | Horrible Histories

Ancient Civilizations | CBBC | 2009 | 1'12''

1950's doo-wop parody for the Stone Age.

S01E05: Neanderthal dinner party | Horrible Histories

S01E05: Neanderthal dinner party | Horrible Histories

Ancient Civilizations | CBBC | 2009 | 3'15''

A Homo sapiens couple invite the local Neanderthals to dinner.

S01E05: HHTV News: Stone Age Report | Horrible Histories

S01E05: HHTV News: Stone Age Report | Horrible Histories

Ancient Civilizations | CBBC | 2009 | 2'32''

HHTV News: Bob Hale's Stone Age Report.

S01E02: Caveman Art Show | Horrible Histories

S01E02: Caveman Art Show | Horrible Histories

Ancient Civilizations | CBBC | 2009 | 2'00''

Preserving the head of a dead relative.

S01E02: Historical Hospital: Savage Stone Age | Horrible Histories

S01E02: Historical Hospital: Savage Stone Age | Horrible Histories

Ancient Civilizations | CBBC | 2009 | 2'09''

Ugg, Stone Age Doctor: Tattoo and trepanning treatments.

S01E01: Stone Age burial | Horrible Histories

S01E01: Stone Age burial | Horrible Histories

Ancient Civilizations | CBBC | 2009 | 1'31''

The (not-so-)carefully reconstructed funeral of a stone-age tribal chief.

S01E01: Stone Age Tool Set | Horrible Histories

S01E01: Stone Age Tool Set | Horrible Histories

Ancient Civilizations | CBBC | 2009 | 1'52''

Spoof advert for stone age stones.

S02E02: Age of Warriors | A History of Ancient Britain

S02E02: Age of Warriors | A History of Ancient Britain

Ancient Civilizations | BBC HD | 2011 | 58'39''

Continuing his epic story of Britain and its peoples, Neil Oliver encounters the age of the Celts - a time of warriors...

S02E01: Age of Iron | A History of Ancient Britain

S02E01: Age of Iron | A History of Ancient Britain

Ancient Civilizations | BBC HD | 2011 | 58'58''

Neil Oliver continues his epic story of how Britain came to be. It's 1,000 BC and the end of the Bronze Age: economic melt...

S01E04: Age of Bronze | A History of Ancient Britain

S01E04: Age of Bronze | A History of Ancient Britain

Ancient Civilizations | BBC HD | 2011 | 58'38''

Neil Oliver continues his epic tour of Britain's most distant past with the arrival of metals and the social revolution ...

S01E03: Age of Cosmology | A History of Ancient Britain

S01E03: Age of Cosmology | A History of Ancient Britain

Ancient Civilizations | BBC HD | 2011 | 58'42''

Neil Oliver continues his journey through the world of Ancient Britain as he encounters an age of cosmological priest...

S01E02: Age of Ancestors | A History of Ancient Britain

S01E02: Age of Ancestors | A History of Ancient Britain

Ancient Civilizations | BBC HD | 2011 | 59'00''

Neil Oliver continues the story of how today's Britain and its people were forged over thousands of years of ancient ...

S01E01: Age of Ice | A History of Ancient Britain

S01E01: Age of Ice | A History of Ancient Britain

Ancient Civilizations | BBC HD | 2011 | 58'52''

Neil Oliver travels back to ice age Britain as he begins the epic story of the evolution of the land and its occupants over...

01: Beginnings | Michael Wood: The Story of India

01: Beginnings | Michael Wood: The Story of India

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Two | 2007 | 59'02''

Michael Wood journeys through the subcontinent, tracing the diversity of its peoples, cultures and landscapes. He charts th...

S01E02 | Hidden Wales with Will Millard

S01E02 | Hidden Wales with Will Millard

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Four | 2018 | 59'32''

Will Millard visits mid-Wales and the west of the country and uncovers a lead mine that is thousands of years old.

S01E01: The Cult | The Battle for Britain’s Soul

S01E01: The Cult | The Battle for Britain’s Soul

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Two | 2004 | 59'07''

With disease and famine a constant threat, superstitious Iron-Age Britons sought to appease their pagan gods through r...

Silbury: the Heart of the Hill

Silbury: the Heart of the Hill

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Four | 2007 | 59'10''

Documentary following the final archaeological exploration of the interior of the largest man-made mound in Europe - Silbury Hill, one of our ...

02: Norfolk Broads | The Flying Archaeologist

02: Norfolk Broads | The Flying Archaeologist

Ancient Civilizations | BBC One | 2013 | 28'58''

Ben Robinson flies over the Broads where photos have revealed 945 previously unknown ancient sites, many of which have historia...

01: Stonehenge | The Flying Archaeologist

01: Stonehenge | The Flying Archaeologist

Ancient Civilizations | BBC One | 2013 | 28'58''

Archaeologist Ben Robinson flies over Wiltshire to uncover new discoveries in the Stone Age landscape. Sites found from the air hav...

S09E03 | Digging for Britain

S09E03 | Digging for Britain

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Two | 2022 | 58'58''

The best archaeology from the north of Britain, including Scotland's oldest railway, one of the best-preserved Norman castles and an extraordina...

S02E07: Dinosaurs & Duplicity: Discovery of the First Dinosaur | Days That Shook the World

S02E07: Dinosaurs & Duplicity: Discovery of the First Dinosaur | Days That Shook the World

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Two | 2004 | 30'08''

Using dramatized reconstructions, this program recalls the first discovery of...

S02E07: Piltdown Man | Days That Shook the World

S02E07: Piltdown Man | Days That Shook the World

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Two | 2004 | 29'10''

Using dramatized reconstructions, this program recalls the 'Piltdown Man' hoax in 1953.

01: Survival | Andrew Marr’s History of the World

01: Survival | Andrew Marr’s History of the World

Ancient Civilizations | BBC One | 2012 | 59'26''

Andrew Marr traces 70,000 years of history, beginning with the earliest humans. From Africa, they spread around the w...

S01E06: Latton Mammoths | The Big Monster Dig

S01E06: Latton Mammoths | The Big Monster Dig

Ancient Civilizations | Channel 4 | 2004 | 49'10''

Lucy and the team try to unlock the mysteries of an ice age mammoth graveyard in the Cotswolds in this episode.

02: Birth of a Nation | In Search of Scotland

02: Birth of a Nation | In Search of Scotland

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Two | 2001 | 29'16''

By the first century, Scotland was in an age of competing tribes speaking different languages. Fiona Watson examines how the Pi...

01: Mysterious Ancestors | In Search of Scotland

01: Mysterious Ancestors | In Search of Scotland

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Two | 2001 | 29'06''

Exploring Scotland's dramatic history, Dr Fiona Watson begins with our mysterious Neolithic ancestors.

Woolly Mammoth: Secrets from the Ice

Woolly Mammoth: Secrets from the Ice

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Two | 2012 | 59'07''

Professor Alice Roberts on the natural history of the woolly mammoth, revealing adaptations that helped the species evolve from their or...

01: New Dawn | Walking with Beasts

01: New Dawn | Walking with Beasts

Ancient Civilizations | BBC One | 2001 | 29'11''

The series following on from Walking with Dinosaurs. begins 49 million years ago. The world is heavily forested and birds rule the planet,...

03: Land of Giants | Walking with Beasts

03: Land of Giants | Walking with Beasts

Ancient Civilizations | BBC One | 2001 | 29'16''

25 million years ago in the Oligocene Epoch lived the Indricotheres. Weighing 15 tonnes and standing 7 metres tall, they were the la...

02: Whale Killer | Walking with Beasts

02: Whale Killer | Walking with Beasts

Ancient Civilizations | BBC One | 2001 | 29'05''

36 million years ago mammals ruled the world. It is in the sea, however, that the most monstrous mammals can be found.

05: Sabre Tooth | Walking with Beasts

05: Sabre Tooth | Walking with Beasts

Ancient Civilizations | BBC One | 2001 | 29'01''

This episode follows the progress of a Smilodon called Half Tooth. Smilodon was the largest of all the sabre tooth cats which roamed So...

04: Next of Kin | Walking with Beasts

04: Next of Kin | Walking with Beasts

Ancient Civilizations | BBC One | 2001 | 29'02''

We travel back 3 million years to Ethiopia, where Australopithecus, one of the first upright apes, lived in danger of being hunted by s...

06: Mammoth Journey | Walking with Beasts

06: Mammoth Journey | Walking with Beasts

Ancient Civilizations | BBC One | 2001 | 28'59''

Last in the series follows a herd of mammoths as they make their way south for winter, running a gauntlet of ice-age hunters includ...

The Beasts Within | Walking with Beasts

The Beasts Within | Walking with Beasts

Ancient Civilizations | BBC One | 2001 | 49'15''

A look behind the scenes at the making of the series on prehistoric mammals. TV special effects show how Man's dextrous hands & expre...

Triumph of the Beasts | Walking with Beasts

Triumph of the Beasts | Walking with Beasts

Ancient Civilizations | BBC One | 2001 | 49'13''

The incredible story of how mammals took over from the dinosaurs as the largest, fastest and fiercest creatures on Earth.

Iron Age Britain | Learning Zone

Iron Age Britain | Learning Zone

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Two | 2015 | 5'51''

Life in Iron Age Britain through the eyes of one family, as the impact of the new, and cheaper, stronger, metal on their life is explored in...

Bronze Age Britain | Learning Zone

Bronze Age Britain | Learning Zone

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Two | 2015 | 5'55''

Life in Bronze Age Britain through the eyes of one family as they learn how copper and tin is mined, and make bronze using a furnace.

New Stone Age | Learning Zone

New Stone Age | Learning Zone

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Two | 2015 | 6'22''

Life in Neolithic Britain through the eyes of one family as they attempt to hunt and farm enough food to live on.

Iron Age: iron | Learning Zone

Iron Age: iron | Learning Zone

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Two | 2015 | 4'51''

People tried to keep the process of making iron secret to preserve their power. It was often regarded as magic.