Samuel L Jackson and a team of journalists and divers explore 400 years of slavery. What happened to the 12 million ensla...
Jeremy Paxman begins by asking how such a small country got such a big head and came to rule a quarter of the world.
Archive material, interviews, and dramatisations provide an insight into to the Suez crisis of 1956; the Egyptian uprising that bro...
The first episode recreates the era of the 1930s, when British expatriates attempted to create an idyllic version of English life i...
David Olusoga challenges our perceptions of the First World War with the stories of the millions of In...
The development of the triangular trade is described from its ancient origins, through the European involvement in the 16th and 17...
Dr Yasmin Khan tracks down passengers who travelled from Mumbai to Britain in the 1930s on the luxurious P&O liner The Viceroy...
In this programme we learn about the origins of the British empire in the 17th century and how its foundations we...
Programme covers events in India from the 1930s to Independence and Partition in 1947.
Samuel L Jackson examines how, for over 400 years, the transatlantic slave trade became the greatest wealth-generating m...
In part two, historian David Olusoga explains how the First World War spread far beyond the mud and ...
Jeremy Paxman continues by examining how traders, conquerors and settlers spread the British way of doing things.
Sam Willis explores the golden age of piracy during the early 18th century and charts the devastating im...
Raj society was based on a formal order of precedence, but behind the scenes there was a great deal of flirtation, fun, affair...
The concept of 'plantation' is explored in this programme, referring not to crops but the settlement of British p...
Ken Saro Wiwa and Ledum Mittee come face to face with the power of the Nigerian state.
1908: Constance Lytton: daughter of the Viceroy of India, she came from one of the leading families in the land. Almost any d...
Jeremy Paxman continues by tracing the growth of a peculiarly British type of hero.
Set against the backdrop of British India from the 1920s to Independence in 1947, this third and last programme in the series tells...
Samuel L Jackson and the team travel through the US to tell the stories of those who resisted slavery, often making the danger...
Lucy explores how British history is a concoction of fibs. She debunks the fibs that surro...
Following the religious revival that started in the late 18th century, missionaries began working in Africa and In...
The 19th-century union appears secure, but beneath the surface run deep divisions, leading to the emergence of a new working-cl...
How the invasion of Egypt caused an international outcry and the end of Eden's career.
In this programme we discover how a few thousand British people ruled over India, a country of more than ...
Samuel L Jackson and the team examine the events that ended the slave trade and piece together the heritage and identity taken...
In the final part of his personal account of Britain's empire, Jeremy Paxman tells the story of how a desire for conquest became a mission to improve ...
In this special edition of Not Forgotten, Ian Hislop uncovers the powerful stories of First World War soldiers from across the British Empire...
David Dimbleby travels through Britain, America and India, tracing the British Empire from 1750 to 1900.
Sixth episode of a groundbreaking BBC drama series from 1967 about the experience of the West Indian community in Birmingham, featuring Er...
The fall of the British empire is usually attributed to nationalist groups fighting for independence, yet as N...
Michael Wood examines the British Raj and traces the events that led to the Partition of India in 1947.
In this special edition of Not Forgotten, Ian Hislop uncovers the overlooked stories of soldiers from across the British Empire who fou...
Poet Jackie Kay tells the story of Arthur Roberts - one of thousands of black soldiers who fought in WWI. His diary provides a unique...
David Olusoga investigates the experiences of African American soldiers in WW1.
David Olusoga discusses the Battle of Neuve Chapelle.
Lenny Henry and Suzy Klein celebrate black classical composers and musicians across the centuries whose stories and music have l...
In 1834 Britain abolished slavery, a defining and celebrated moment in our national history. What has been largely forgotten is that a...
Simon Reeve investigates the colonial history that has shaped both the landscape and tea trade in Kenya.
Victoria Wood investigates the history of British- Chinese relations through the tea trade.
James Mossman reports on the relationship between Europeans and Africans in the federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
David Olusoga discusses the experiences of the Chinese labour corp in WW1.
Anita Rani marks the 70th anniversary of the Partition of India by exploring its impact on four British families, includi...
Drama about an idealistic young man's coming of age during the birth of the Irish nation.
Dan Snow travels through India in the footsteps of the company that revolutionised British lifestyles and laid the fo...
Documentary exploring the political brinkmanship and bitter communal violence that led to the partition of Ireland.
Professor Alice Roberts and Dr Yasmin Khan dig deeper through the excavations at St James's burial ground on the hunt for the lost ex...
Sathnam Sanghera goes on a very personal journey to unearth the roots that bind his country to its colonial past. Travelling across Britain ...
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