An introduction to the history of black people in Britain, from the Romans to the slave trade. Schools programme for seven- to 11-year-...
Documentary in which Miles Chambers recounts the history of the slave trade in the West Country through objects and architectu...
David Hayman presents the second of a two-part documentary exploring Scotland's role in the transatlantic slave trade.
David Hayman presents the first of a two-part documentary exploring Scotland's role in the transatlantic slave trade.
In 1992 an American girl flies home from London. While waiting at the airport she encounters the ghost of Christopher Columbus, who tell...
The well-known chef heads to the West Indies and discovers his Caribbean history is not quite what he expected.
Actress Lenora Crichlow sets off to South Africa to discover the story of how Nelson Mandela brought peace to his country and what he mea...
The story of Olaudah Equiano, a black slave who emerged from the horrors of the African holocaust to become an English gentleman, marry a white wom...
The final episode reviews the 19th century, when a fierce competition for resources and trade led to conflicts.
This episode looks at the powerful, cosmopolitan cities that dotted Africa at the time when Europe was in its Middle Ages.
Henry Louis Gates travels to the shores of the Sahara Desert to see the transformation of north and west Africa.
Henry Louis Gates Jr looks at the discoveries that point to Africa as the genetic home of all currently living humanity.
Was Wales involved in the slave trade? Two hundred years after the trade was abolished, Sean Fletcher travels to Jamaica to look f...
Angry and frustrated by the workers' refusal to work to his orders, Robert takes violent revenge, hoping to scare them into working, to the shock a...
Caroline and July compete for Robert's attention. Robert announces that he's marrying Caroline, but on the wedding night goes to July's bed and the...
Born a slave, July is taken from her mother to a plantation house and forced to work for the odious Caroline. But as she matures she starts to learn how to han...
Jeremy Paxman travels from Jamaica, where sugar made plantation owners rich on the backs of slaves, to Calcutta.
David Olusoga traces the bitter propaganda war waged between the pro-slavery lobby and the abolitionists.
Historian David Olusoga concludes his series with the three African kings who stood up to empire, an irresistible ...
In part three of this groundbreaking series, historian David Olusoga explores the Victorian moral crusade against s...
In the second part of his four-part series, historian David Olusoga explores the business of slavery and remembers the bl...
An overview of the methods used by the abolitionists, such as the famous poster of the slave ship 'Brookes'. The case of...
The schools history series reconstructs the day-to-day experience of slavery for Betty Newton, a field hand on a Carib...
The development of the triangular trade is described from its ancient origins, through the European involvement in the 16th and 17...
Simon Schama traces the steps of the empire-makers, asking how a trading enterprise based on the idea of libert...
In February 1991, Prime Minister John Major survived an IRA mortar attack. But this wasn't the only message he received from the ...
Samuel L Jackson and the team examine the events that ended the slave trade and piece together the heritage and identity taken...
Samuel L Jackson and the team travel through the US to tell the stories of those who resisted slavery, often making the danger...
Samuel L Jackson examines how, for over 400 years, the transatlantic slave trade became the greatest wealth-generating m...
Samuel L Jackson and a team of journalists and divers explore 400 years of slavery. What happened to the 12 million ensla...
In the final part of this journey Angellica Bell meets one of the descendants of William Wilberforce who helpe...
Angellica Bell explains what happened to the slaves once they arrived in the Caribbean.
A group of school children crowd onto a bus to try and get a sense of how slaves felt on the crowded ships taking them to new lands.
Angellica Bell describes how people were captured and treated in Senegal as they entered into a life of salvery.
Angellica Bell introduces the slave trade and the importance of Bristol in its history.
David Olusoga talks to Neil Kenlock about his photographs of the exp...
David Olusoga discusses the Windrush Generation.
David Olusoga discusses racial violence in Liverpool.
David Olusoga investigates the Bechuanaland Chiefs.
David Olusoga discusses the legacy of the slave trade in Jamaica in the decades after abolition.
David Olusoga explains how the American civil war caused a cotton famine in Lancashire.
David Olusoga discusses the cotton industry in Mississippi and how it fuelled Britain's industrial revolution.
David Olusoga discusses the life and work of Frederick Douglas.
David Olusoga discusses the remarkable life of Sara Forbes Bonetta.
David Olusoga discusses the West Africa Squadron, which attempted to intercept slave ships and free the African...
David Olusoga investigates the passenger list to Freetown in Africa.
Davis Olusoga investigates the Bill Richmond black boxer who took Georgian Britain by storm.
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