Middle-Eastern history

05: Legacy | Once Upon a Time in Iraq

America eventually leaves Iraq, but when Isis emerges to take over huge swathes of the country, the US is forced back to confront the b...

04: Saddam | Once Upon a Time in Iraq

When Saddam Hussein is captured by American troops, CIA analyst John Nixon is the first person to interrogate him. Saddam’s answers lea...

03: Fallujah | Once Upon a Time in Iraq

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

02: Insurgency | Once Upon a Time in Iraq

The Iraqi insurgency is examined through Lt Colonel Sassaman’s descent into the darkest regions of his psyche.

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...

Isis: Terror in Iraq | Panorama

An investigation into Isis and how it is ripping Iraq apart. Paul Wood speaks to members of the terror group and sees the fighting in Iraq fi...

02: Saddam Hussein | Walden on Villains

Walden argues that the west's demonisation of Saddam Hussein has only helped strengthen his position in Iraq.

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...

03: It’s Hell, Mr President | The Iraq War

The biggest players of the war in Iraq reveal the inside story. The final episode tells how the war ended and brings the Ira...

02: After the Fall | The Iraq War

Key insiders describe their roles in the chaotic aftermath of the defeat of Saddam Hussein.

01: Regime Change | The Iraq War

This episode investigates how the US and Britain became convinced that Saddam possessed WMDs.

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...

07: Eyewitness to History: Norma Percy on The Fifty Years War | The Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs

Award-winning film-maker Norma Percy looks back on her acclaimed 19...

06: 1992-98 | The Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs

A series of cloak and-dagger manoeuvres sealed a historic first peace agreement between the Palestinians and Israel i...

05: 1987-1991 | The Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs

The protracted search for peace was repeatedly sabotaged. The deadlock was finally broken by the Intifada - a Pales...

04: 1970-79 | The Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs

Israel was not prepared for the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War. Ex-US president Jimmy Carter recalls how, in 1978, he...

03: 1967-1982 | The Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs

The Palestinian story, beginning with Yasser Arafat's first secret crossing of the River Jordan to launch raids on ...

02: 1967 | The Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs

Tracing the pattern of dramatic and covert events leading to the Six Day War of June 1967.

01: 1948-56 | The Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs

In 1948, the state of Israel was proclaimed. This episode recounts how the US, later Israel's greatest ally, came clo...

A History of Syria with Dan Snow | This World

Dan Snow travels to Syria to see how the current civil war has been shaped by the country's tumultuous history, unpicking the h...

Ambushed | Our War

The story of a group of friends from 3 Platoon, 1st Battalion Royal Anglian, who were sent to Helmand province in 2007 and filmed on a helmet camera by th...

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...

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...

Postwar: E17: A New Jerusalem? | Politically

Taxi to the Dark Side | Storyville

An Afghan taxi driver called Dilawar died days after being arrested & questioned by US forces at Bagram airbase. The programme concludes t...

Olympic Massacre: One Day In September | Storyville

Oscar-winning documentary recounting the kidnapping of 12 Israeli athletes during the 1972 Munich Olympics by the Palesti...

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...

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...

Six-Day War | Panorama

James Watson reports on the Six-Day War in Israel having visited Tel Aviv, Bethlehem and Jerusalem.

Nasser’s Egypt | Panorama

Panorama examines Nasser's Egypt, 10 years after Suez and looks at what he has already done for his country and what his ambitions are for th...

Baghdad | Panorama

Including a report by Adrian Crawley from Baghdad, Edward Ward speaking from the Hungarian Frontier, an interview by Christopher Chataway of an Australian...

Episode 2 | How Facebook Changed the World: The Arab Spring

Mishal Husain meets those who spread the revolt to Libya and Bahrain, and those who are still fighting the Syrian...

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...

06: 1973 Middle East | Peter and Dan Snow: 20th Century Battlefields

Peter and Dan Snow unpick the fighting that broke out in 1973. Known by some as the Yom Kippur War, it 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 ...

04: Eyewitness to History: Norma Percy | Israel and the Arabs – Elusive Peace

Film-maker Norma Percy looks back on her 2005 series The Elusive Peace, sharing memories ...

03: Sharon | Israel and the Arabs – Elusive Peace

The war in Iraq forces President Bush to court Arab allies. He needs to push Israel's prime minister Ariel Sharon bac...

02: Arafat | Israel and the Arabs – Elusive Peace

US Secretary of State Colin Powell tries to make peace between Israel and Palestine, but his efforts are derailed by ...

01: Clinton | Israel and the Arabs – Elusive Peace

What happened behind closed doors at the Middle East Peace Summit at Camp David in 2000 - and the reasons why the ta...

Hamas’s Secret Financial Empire | Panorama

Following the attacks of 7 October, Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas. But can it? With access to some of Hamas's most close...

Amos Oz: The Conscience of Israel | imagine…

A portrait of celebrated Israeli writer and political commentator Amos Oz, whose childhood memoir A Tale of Love and Darkn...

The Balfour Declaration: Britain’s Promise to the Holy Land | This World

Jane Corbin explores whether the aspirations of The Balfour Declaration were doomed to inevita...

Raving in Palestine | Our World

Our World has been in Israel and the occupied West Bank, documenting the personal views of young Palestinians on the 'Rave' scene about the A...

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...

Farah Nabulsi – Film-maker | HARDtalk

Stephen Sackur speaks to British-Palestinian film-maker Farah Nabulsi. Her latest film, The Teacher, is set in the West Bank and ...

Blue Box | Storyville

Brave account of how the Jewish National Fund acquired land in Palestine before and after the creation of the State of Israel.

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...

S01E08: Lockerbie | Days That Shook the World

How the commercial airplane has been used as a terrorist weapon: the Lockerbie disaster in 1988.