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Empire with David Olusoga
How did a small island once rule over a quarter of the world's population? This shared history still shapes us today - and billions of people are part of its story.
Series 1: Episode 1 (1h)
- Civilisations: Rise and FallTheir legends remain, but treasures left behind reveal how and why they fell from power
- Union with David OlusogaNational identity, social class, inequality. David Olusoga exposes what divides the UK
- Britain's Forgotten Slave OwnersBuilt on slavery. David Olusoga’s documentary that helped shine a light on the UK’s past
- Black and British: A Forgotten HistoryDavid Olusoga explores the relationship between Britain and people of African origins.
- Julius Caesar: The Making of a DictatorHe came. He saw. He conquered. The tale of an ambitious power-grab that turned to tyranny
- Rome: A History of the Eternal CityCentre of an empire, heart of a religion. The beliefs bound into the DNA of a great city
- Mary Beard's Ultimate Rome: Empire Without LimitIts myths and legends. Exploring the city that shaped a world – and what tore it apart
- A House Through TimeDavid Olusoga sets out once more to uncover the history of a single house in Leeds.
- Ancient ApocalypseFrom Mayans to Minoans, the greatest empires and the natural forces that destroyed them
- Ancient WorldsRichard Miles traces the roots of civilisation in Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Anatolia and Greece.
- Meet the Romans with Mary BeardProf Mary Beard asks not what the Romans did for us, but what the empire did for Rome.
- A History of Ancient BritainLife in Britain in the brutal world of the last ice age.
