1: The Viceory of India | A Passage to Britain

1: The Atlantic Slave Trade | History File

The development of the triangular trade is described from its ancient origins, through the European involvement in the 16th and 17...

5: Shot at Dawn | Not Forgotten

In this special edition of Not Forgotten, Ian Hislop uncovers the powerful stories of First World War soldiers from across the British Empire...

Indian soldiers in Marseille | The World's War: Forgotten Soldiers of Empire

David Olusoga discusses the experiences of the Indian soldiers arriving in Marseille at the begi...

7: Soldiers of Empire | Not Forgotten

In this special edition of Not Forgotten, Ian Hislop uncovers the overlooked stories of soldiers from across the British Empire who fou...

1: Martial Races | The World's War: Forgotten Soldiers of Empire

David Olusoga challenges our perceptions of the First World War with the stories of the millions of Indian, ...

6: Freedom | Michael Wood: The Story of India

Michael Wood examines the British Raj and traces the events that led to the Partition of India in 1947.

Episode 2 | My Family, Partition and Me: India 1947

Anita Rani and her mother Lucky become the first members of their family to return to what is now Pakistan since the Part...

2: Foreign Legions | The World's War: Forgotten Soldiers of Empire

In part two, historian David Olusoga explains how the First World War spread far beyond the mud and trench...

4: Heaven's Breed | Empire: How Britain Made The Modern World

In this programme we discover how a few thousand British people ruled over India, a country of more than 250 mi...

Amritsar 1919: Remembering a British Massacre

A century on, historian Dr Zareer Masani reappraises the events and context of the Amritsar massacre in which hundreds of India...

French troops from Sub-Saharan West Africa | The World's War: Forgotten Soldiers of Empire

David Olusoga investigates the WW1 experiences of French troops from Sub-Saharan W...

The British in India | Timewatch

Tonight's programme follows historian Andrew Roberts across the Indian subcontinent as he argues that Britain should take pride in its imper...

2. On trial | The Compass

Ken Saro Wiwa and Ledum Mittee come face to face with the power of the Nigerian state.

3: The Mission | Empire: How Britain Made The Modern World

Following the religious revival that started in the late 18th century, missionaries began working in Africa and In...

Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners

In 1834 Britain abolished slavery, a defining and celebrated moment in our national history. What has been largely forgotten is that aboliti...

Episode 1 | The Birth of Empire: The East India Company

Dan Snow travels through India in the footsteps of the company that revolutionised British lifestyles and laid the fo...

S3E3: The Empire of Good Intentions | A History of Britain by Simon Schama

How the liberal politics and free-market economics of the British Empire unravelled, leading to th...

The Father of Australia

Drama-documentary starring Clive Russell as Lachlan Macquarie, governor of the British penal colony that would eventually become Australia.

The Indian Corps and trench warfare | The World's War: Forgotten Soldiers of Empire

David Olusoga discusses the Indian corp experiences of industrialised trench warfare.

1: A Taste of Power | Empire

Jeremy Paxman begins by asking how such a small country got such a big head and came to rule a quarter of the world.