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

1: Betrayal | Suez: A Very British Crisis

Archive material, interviews, and dramatisations provide an insight into to the Suez crisis of 1956; the Egyptian uprising that bro...

1: 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 s...

17: Good Guys, Bad Guys: 1967-1978 | Cold War

Under Détente the superpowers continued their rivalry, but carefully avoided direct conflict by courting allies in the developi...

2: Conspiracy | Suez: A Very British Crisis

This episode provides an insight into the way in which Eden secretly plotted with France and Israel, behind the USA's back, not o...

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 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...

Iran Hostage Rescue | Surviving Disaster

Recreates the failed operation to rescue 66 Americans taken hostage at the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979, a failure that cost Jimmy C...

Nakba | Jerusalem: The Making of a Holy City

Simon Sebag Montefiore discusses the Nakba, the forced removal of Arab Palestinians from their land, in the expansion of Israel....

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 the future.

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...

Partition | Jerusalem: The Making of a Holy City

Simon Sebag Montefiore discusses the British and United Nations roles in the partition of Palestine into two states, one Jew...

S1E6: Kristallnacht | Days That Shook the World

Two days defined the fortunes of 20th-century Jews: Kristallnacht on September 9, 1938, a turning point in Nazi persecution, ...

S1E6: The Birth of Israel | Days That Shook the World

Two days defined the fortunes of 20th-century Jews: Kristallnacht on September 9, 1938, a turning point in Nazi persecu...

S1E8: Black September Hijackings | Days That Shook the World

How the commercial airplane has been used as a terrorist weapon: the Black September hijacking in 1970.

S1E8: Lockerbie | Days That Shook the World

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

S2E8: Terrorism: Assassination of Abraham Lincoln | Days That Shook the World

How the commercial airplane has been used as a terrorist weapon: the Black September hijacking ...

S3E6: Battle for the Holy City: The Six-Day War | Days That Shook the World

The Six-Day War, which began on June 5, 1967, resulted in Israeli control of the Gaza Strip, Sina...

S3E8: The Iranian Revolution | Days That Shook the World

The departure of the Shah of Iran while Ayatollah Khomeini awaited in Paris.

Six-Day War | Panorama

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

The curse of Jerusalem | Jerusalem: The Making of a Holy City

Simon Sebag Montefiore summarises the long religious struggle for Jerusalem and the impact that this laden hist...