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

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, ...

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...

Chinese Labour Corps | The World's War: Forgotten Soldiers of Empire

David Olusoga discusses the experiences of the Chinese labour corp in WW1.

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.

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...

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...

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...

Episode 2 | The Birth of Empire: The East India Company

Dan Snow traces the rise and fall of the East India Company, and reveals how the British government controlled the Ea...

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...

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...

6: Age of Empire | Seven Ages of Britain

David Dimbleby travels through Britain, America and India, tracing the British Empire from 1750 to 1900.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

3: The Two Nations | Union with David Olusoga

The 19th-century union appears secure, but beneath the surface run deep divisions, leading to the emergence of a new working-cl...

Learning Zone | The Birth of Empire: The East India Company

A compilation of short films made specially for schools on the rise and fall of the East India Company, which acc...