Dan Snow travels to Syria to see how the current civil war has been shaped by the country's tumultuous history, unpicking the h...
The story of a group of friends from 3 Platoon, 1st Battalion Royal Anglian, who were sent to Helmand province in 2007 and filmed on a helmet camera by th...
Schoolgirl Malala Yousafi was just 14 when she was shot for campaigning for girls' education in Pakistan. Nel Hedayat travels to the areas where the...
One year ago, Malala Yousafzai was shot by the Taliban on her school bus. In this Panorama special, she talks exclusively to Mish...
Oscar-winning documentary recounting the kidnapping of 12 Israeli athletes during the 1972 Munich Olympics by the Palesti...
Louis Theroux spends time with ultra-nationalist Jewish settlers, who consider it their religious and political obligation to populate some of...
Fourteen years after his first visit, Louis Theroux meets some of the growing community of religious-nationalist Israelis who have settled in th...
James Watson reports on the Six-Day War in Israel having visited Tel Aviv, Bethlehem and Jerusalem.
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 th...
Including a report by Adrian Crawley from Baghdad, Edward Ward speaking from the Hungarian Frontier, an interview by Christopher Chataway of an Australian...
Mishal Husain meets those who spread the revolt to Libya and Bahrain, and those who are still fighting the Syrian...
The story of how the Arab world erupted in revolution. Mishal Husain charts events in Tunisia and Egypt, meets le...
Peter and Dan Snow unpick the fighting that broke out in 1973. Known by some as the Yom Kippur War, it wa...
Simon Sebag Montefiore begins a history of Jerusalem by exploring how it came into being and how it became s...
Film-maker Norma Percy looks back on her 2005 series The Elusive Peace, sharing memories o...
The war in Iraq forces President Bush to court Arab allies. He needs to push Israel's prime minister Ariel Sharon back...
US Secretary of State Colin Powell tries to make peace between Israel and Palestine, but his efforts are derailed by h...
What happened behind closed doors at the Middle East Peace Summit at Camp David in 2000 - and the reasons why the tal...
Following the attacks of 7 October, Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas. But can it? With access to some of Hamas's most close...
A portrait of celebrated Israeli writer and political commentator Amos Oz, whose childhood memoir A Tale of Love and Darkness giv...
Jane Corbin explores whether the aspirations of The Balfour Declaration were doomed to inevita...
Our World has been in Israel and the occupied West Bank, documenting the personal views of young Palestinians on the 'Rave' scene about the A...
Panorama reports on the conflict between Israel and Hamas. Reporter Jane Corbin hears the human stories on both sides and asks w...
Stephen Sackur speaks to British-Palestinian film-maker Farah Nabulsi. Her latest film, The Teacher, is set in the West Bank and ...
Brave account of how the Jewish National Fund acquired land in Palestine before and after the creation of the State of Israel.
Schools history programme narrated by John Tidmarsh, looking at Palestine in the 1930s and the relationship betwee...
How the commercial airplane has been used as a terrorist weapon: the Lockerbie disaster in 1988.
How the commercial airplane has been used as a terrorist weapon: the Black September hijacking in 1970.
Two days defined the fortunes of 20th-century Jews: Kristallnacht on September 9, 1938, a turning point in Nazi persecu...
Two days defined the fortunes of 20th-century Jews: Kristallnacht on September 9, 1938, a turning point in Nazi persecution, ...
How the commercial airplane has been used as a terrorist weapon: the Black September hijacking ...
The departure of the Shah of Iran while Ayatollah Khomeini awaited in Paris.
The Six-Day War, which began on June 5, 1967, resulted in Israeli control of the Gaza Strip, Sina...
This episode provides an insight into the way in which Eden secretly plotted with France and Israel, behind the USA's back, not o...
Archive material, interviews, and dramatisations provide an insight into to the Suez crisis of 1956; the Egyptian uprising that bro...
Under Détente the superpowers continued their rivalry, but carefully avoided direct conflict by courting allies in the developi...
Recreates the failed operation to rescue 66 Americans taken hostage at the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979, a failure that cost Jimmy C...
Simon Sebag Montefiore summarises the long religious struggle for Jerusalem and the impact that this laden hist...
Simon Sebag Montefiore discusses the Nakba, the forced removal of Arab Palestinians from their land, in the expansion of Israel....
Simon Sebag Montefiore discusses the British and United Nations roles in the partition of Palestine into two states, one Jew...
Simon Sebag Montefiore discusses the role that Britain played following the fall of the Ottoman Empire ...
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