Middle-Eastern history

A History of Syria with Dan Snow | This World

Dan Snow travels to Syria to see how the current civil war has been shaped by the country's tumultuous history, unpicking the h...

Ambushed | Our War

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...

Shot for Going to School

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...

Malala: Shot for Going to School | Panorama

One year ago, Malala Yousafzai was shot by the Taliban on her school bus. In this Panorama special, she talks exclusively to Mish...

Postwar: E17: A New Jerusalem? | Politically

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...

Ultra Zionists | Louis Theroux

Louis Theroux spends time with ultra-nationalist Jewish settlers, who consider it their religious and political obligation to populate some of...

The Settlers | Louis Theroux

Fourteen years after his first visit, Louis Theroux meets some of the growing community of religious-nationalist Israelis who have settled in th...

Six-Day War | Panorama

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

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 th...

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 2 | How Facebook Changed the World: The Arab Spring

Mishal Husain meets those who spread the revolt to Libya and Bahrain, and those who are still fighting the Syrian...

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...

6: 1973 Middle East | Peter and Dan Snow: 20th Century Battlefields

Peter and Dan Snow unpick the fighting that broke out in 1973. Known by some as the Yom Kippur War, it wa...

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...

4: Eyewitness to History: Norma Percy | Israel and the Arabs – Elusive Peace

Film-maker Norma Percy looks back on her 2005 series The Elusive Peace, sharing memories o...

3: Sharon | Israel and the Arabs – Elusive Peace

The war in Iraq forces President Bush to court Arab allies. He needs to push Israel's prime minister Ariel Sharon back...

2: Arafat | Israel and the Arabs – Elusive Peace

US Secretary of State Colin Powell tries to make peace between Israel and Palestine, but his efforts are derailed by h...

1: Clinton | Israel and the Arabs – Elusive Peace

What happened behind closed doors at the Middle East Peace Summit at Camp David in 2000 - and the reasons why the tal...

Hamas’s Secret Financial Empire | Panorama

Following the attacks of 7 October, Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas. But can it? With access to some of Hamas's most close...

Amos Oz: The Conscience of Israel | imagine

A portrait of celebrated Israeli writer and political commentator Amos Oz, whose childhood memoir A Tale of Love and Darkness giv...

The Balfour Declaration: Britain’s Promise to the Holy Land | This World

Jane Corbin explores whether the aspirations of The Balfour Declaration were doomed to inevita...

Raving in Palestine | Our World

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...

At War: Crisis in the Middle East | Panorama

Panorama reports on the conflict between Israel and Hamas. Reporter Jane Corbin hears the human stories on both sides and asks w...

Farah Nabulsi – Film-maker | HARDtalk

Stephen Sackur speaks to British-Palestinian film-maker Farah Nabulsi. Her latest film, The Teacher, is set in the West Bank and ...

Blue Box | Storyville

Brave account of how the Jewish National Fund acquired land in Palestine before and after the creation of the State of Israel.

14: Israel and the Arab States | Twentieth Century History

Schools history programme narrated by John Tidmarsh, looking at Palestine in the 1930s and the relationship betwee...

S1E8: Lockerbie | Days That Shook the World

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

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.

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...

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, ...

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 ...

S3E8: The Iranian Revolution | Days That Shook the World

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

The fall of the Ottoman Empire | Jerusalem: The Making of a Holy City

Simon Sebag Montefiore discusses the role that Britain played following the fall of the Ottoman Empire ...