Andrew Marr's History of the World

Synopsis

Andrew Marr's History of the World is a 2012 BBC documentary television series presented by Andrew Marr that covers 70,000 years of world history from the beginning of human civilisation, as African nomadic peoples spread out around the world and settled down to become the first farmers, up to the twentieth century.

First Air Date: 2012-09-23

Last Air Date: 2012-11-11

Number of Seasons: 1

Number of Episodes: 8

Networks: BBC One

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Top Cast

Andrew Marr as Self - Presenter

Seasons

Miniseries (2012)

No overview available for this season.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: Survival (2012-09-23)

How the earliest humans spread around the world, adapting and surviving against the odds.
Ep. 2: Age of Empire (2012-09-30)

The story of the first empires which laid the foundations for the modern world.
Ep. 3: The Word and the Sword (2012-10-07)

Charting the spiritual revolutions that shook the world between 300 BC and 700 AD.
Ep. 4: Into the Light (2012-10-14)

The Middle Ages, when Vikings explored and pillaged.
Ep. 5: Age of Plunder (2012-10-21)

Europe's rise from piracy to private enterprise.
Ep. 6: Revolution (2012-10-28)

A time when people worldwide rose up in the name of freedom and equality.
Ep. 7: Age of Industry (2012-11-04)

How Britain's Industrial Revolution created the modern world.
Ep. 8: Age of Extremes (2012-11-11)

The atom bomb and other developments in the twentieth century – our age.