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Home | History | Modern Global History

The Middle-East

1: Betrayal | Suez: A Very British Crisis

1: Betrayal | Suez: A Very British Crisis

Empire, Slavery and Race | BBC Two | 2006 | 59'09''

Archive material, interviews, and dramatisations provide an insight into to the Suez crisis of 1956; the Egyptian uprising that bro...

1: Clinton | Israel and the Arabs – Elusive Peace

1: Clinton | Israel and the Arabs – Elusive Peace

History | BBC Two | 2005 | 59'09''

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

1: Wellspring of Holiness | Jerusalem: The Making of a Holy City

1: Wellspring of Holiness | Jerusalem: The Making of a Holy City

History | BBC Four | 2011 | 59'02''

Simon Sebag Montefiore begins a history of Jerusalem by exploring how it came into being and how it became s...

14: Israel and the Arab States | Twentieth Century History

14: Israel and the Arab States | Twentieth Century History

History | BBC One | 1978 | 20'07''

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

17: Good Guys, Bad Guys: 1967-1978 | Cold War

17: Good Guys, Bad Guys: 1967-1978 | Cold War

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 1998 | 46'25''

Under Détente the superpowers continued their rivalry, but carefully avoided direct conflict by courting allies in the developi...

2: Arafat | Israel and the Arabs – Elusive Peace

2: Arafat | Israel and the Arabs – Elusive Peace

History | BBC Two | 2005 | 58'58''

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

2: Conspiracy | Suez: A Very British Crisis

2: Conspiracy | Suez: A Very British Crisis

Decolonisation movements | BBC Two | 2006 | 59'31''

This episode provides an insight into the way in which Eden secretly plotted with France and Israel, behind the USA's back, not o...

3: Sharon | Israel and the Arabs – Elusive Peace

3: Sharon | Israel and the Arabs – Elusive Peace

History | BBC Two | 2005 | 58'45''

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

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

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

History | BBC Two | 2023 | 19'16''

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

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

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

History | BBC Two | 2007 | 58'25''

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

Ambushed | Our War

Ambushed | Our War

History | BBC Three | 2011 | 1'09'05''

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...

Amos Oz: The Conscience of Israel | imagine

Amos Oz: The Conscience of Israel | imagine

History | BBC Two | 2005 | 50'37''

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

At War: Crisis in the Middle East | Panorama

At War: Crisis in the Middle East | Panorama

History | BBC One | 2023 | 29'24''

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

Baghdad | Panorama

Baghdad | Panorama

Conflict and Warfare | BBC | 1956 | 21'46''

Including a report by Adrian Crawley from Baghdad, Edward Ward speaking from the Hungarian Frontier, an interview by Christopher Chataway of an Australian...

Blue Box | Storyville

Blue Box | Storyville

Germany 20th Century | BBC Four | 2023 | 1'18'13''

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

Episode 1 | How Facebook Changed the World: The Arab Spring

Episode 1 | How Facebook Changed the World: The Arab Spring

Beliefs in Society | BBC HD | 2011 | 58'50''

The story of how the Arab world erupted in revolution. Mishal Husain charts events in Tunisia and Egypt, meets le...

Episode 2 | How Facebook Changed the World: The Arab Spring

Episode 2 | How Facebook Changed the World: The Arab Spring

Beliefs in Society | BBC HD | 2011 | 59'05''

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

Farah Nabulsi – Film-maker | HARDtalk

Farah Nabulsi – Film-maker | HARDtalk

History | BBC News | 2024 | 24'24''

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

Hamas’s Secret Financial Empire | Panorama

Hamas’s Secret Financial Empire | Panorama

History | BBC One | 2024 | 29'18''

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

Iran Hostage Rescue | Surviving Disaster

Iran Hostage Rescue | Surviving Disaster

History | BBC One | 2006 | 58'59''

Recreates the failed operation to rescue 66 Americans taken hostage at the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979, a failure that cost Jimmy C...

Malala: Shot for Going to School | Panorama

Malala: Shot for Going to School | Panorama

Ethical Issues | BBC One | 2013 | 29'20''

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

Nakba | Jerusalem: The Making of a Holy City

Nakba | Jerusalem: The Making of a Holy City

History | BBC Four | 2011 | 1'35''

Simon Sebag Montefiore discusses the Nakba, the forced removal of Arab Palestinians from their land, in the expansion of Israel....

Nasser’s Egypt | Panorama

Nasser’s Egypt | Panorama

History | BBC One | 1966 | 39'41''

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...

Olympic Massacre: One Day In September | Storyville

Olympic Massacre: One Day In September | Storyville

History | BBC Two | 2000 | 1'33'04''

Oscar-winning documentary recounting the kidnapping of 12 Israeli athletes during the 1972 Munich Olympics by the Palesti...

Partition | Jerusalem: The Making of a Holy City

Partition | Jerusalem: The Making of a Holy City

History | BBC Four | 2011 | 1'57''

Simon Sebag Montefiore discusses the British and United Nations roles in the partition of Palestine into two states, one Jew...

Postwar: E17: A New Jerusalem? | Politically

Postwar: E17: A New Jerusalem? | Politically

Germany 20th Century | BBC Radio 19 | 2025 | 13'44''

Raving in Palestine | Our World

Raving in Palestine | Our World

History | BBC News | 2019 | 23'06''

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...

S1E6: Kristallnacht | Days That Shook the World

S1E6: Kristallnacht | Days That Shook the World

Germany 20th Century | BBC Two | 2003 | 29'26''

Two days defined the fortunes of 20th-century Jews: Kristallnacht on September 9, 1938, a turning point in Nazi persecution, ...

S1E6: The Birth of Israel | Days That Shook the World

S1E6: The Birth of Israel | Days That Shook the World

Germany 20th Century | BBC Two | 2003 | 29'49''

Two days defined the fortunes of 20th-century Jews: Kristallnacht on September 9, 1938, a turning point in Nazi persecu...

S1E8: Black September Hijackings | Days That Shook the World

S1E8: Black September Hijackings | Days That Shook the World

History | BBC Two | 2003 | 29'30''

How the commercial airplane has been used as a terrorist weapon: the Black September hijacking in 1970.

S1E8: Lockerbie | Days That Shook the World

S1E8: Lockerbie | Days That Shook the World

History | BBC Two | 2003 | 29'46''

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

S2E8: Terrorism: Assassination of Abraham Lincoln | Days That Shook the World

S2E8: Terrorism: Assassination of Abraham Lincoln | Days That Shook the World

History | BBC Two | 2004 | 29'31''

How the commercial airplane has been used as a terrorist weapon: the Black September hijacking ...

S3E6: Battle for the Holy City: The Six-Day War | Days That Shook the World

S3E6: Battle for the Holy City: The Six-Day War | Days That Shook the World

History | BBC Two | 2005 | 59'02''

The Six-Day War, which began on June 5, 1967, resulted in Israeli control of the Gaza Strip, Sina...

S3E8: The Iranian Revolution | Days That Shook the World

S3E8: The Iranian Revolution | Days That Shook the World

History | BBC Two | 2005 | 29'42''

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

Shot for Going to School

Shot for Going to School

Ethical Issues | BBC Three | 2013 | 56'58''

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...

Six-Day War | Panorama

Six-Day War | Panorama

History | BBC One | 1967 | 49'28''

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

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

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

History | BBC Two | 2017 | 59'22''

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

The curse of Jerusalem | Jerusalem: The Making of a Holy City

The curse of Jerusalem | Jerusalem: The Making of a Holy City

History | BBC Four | 2011 | 2'24''

Simon Sebag Montefiore summarises the long religious struggle for Jerusalem and the impact that this laden hist...

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

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

History | BBC Four | 2011 | 2'44''

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

The Settlers | Louis Theroux

The Settlers | Louis Theroux

History | BBC Two | 2025 | 1'01'58''

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

Ultra Zionists | Louis Theroux

Ultra Zionists | Louis Theroux

History | BBC Two | 2011 | 58'12''

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

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