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Andrew Marr's History of the World
Andrew Marr's History of the World
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Andrew Marr's History of the World

8.0 / 10
2012
1 season
8 episodes
Documentary

Andrew Marr's History of the World is a 2012 BBC documentary television series presented by Andrew Marr that covers 70,000 years of world history from the beginning of human civilisation, as African nomadic peoples spread out around the world and settled down to become the first farmers, up to the twentieth century.

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HISTORY OF THE WORLD (promo)

Where to Watch(AU)

The Great Courses Amazon Channel
The Great Courses Amazon Channel

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Cast

Andrew Marr

Seasons

  • Survival

    1.Survival

    5.0
    23-09-201250m

    How the earliest humans spread around the world, adapting and surviving against the odds.

  • Age of Empire

    2.Age of Empire

    5.0
    30-09-201250m

    The story of the first empires which laid the foundations for the modern world.

  • The Word and the Sword

    3.The Word and the Sword

    5.0
    07-10-201250m

    Charting the spiritual revolutions that shook the world between 300 BC and 700 AD.

  • Into the Light

    4.Into the Light

    5.0
    14-10-201250m

    The Middle Ages, when Vikings explored and pillaged.

  • Age of Plunder

    5.Age of Plunder

    5.0
    21-10-201250m

    Europe's rise from piracy to private enterprise.

  • Revolution

    6.Revolution

    5.0
    28-10-201250m

    A time when people worldwide rose up in the name of freedom and equality.

  • Age of Industry

    7.Age of Industry

    5.0
    04-11-201250m

    How Britain's Industrial Revolution created the modern world.

  • Age of Extremes

    8.Age of Extremes

    11-11-201250m

    The atom bomb and other developments in the twentieth century – our age.

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