Miniseries
8 episodes · 2012
1Survival
How the earliest humans spread around the world, adapting and surviving against the odds.
2Age of Empire
The story of the first empires which laid the foundations for the modern world.
3The Word and the Sword
Charting the spiritual revolutions that shook the world between 300 BC and 700 AD.
4Into the Light
The Middle Ages, when Vikings explored and pillaged.
5Age of Plunder
Europe's rise from piracy to private enterprise.
6Revolution
A time when people worldwide rose up in the name of freedom and equality.
7Age of Industry
How Britain's Industrial Revolution created the modern world.
8Age of Extremesfinale
The atom bomb and other developments in the twentieth century – our age.
