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Andrew Marr's History of the World

8.0·1 season·8 episodes·50 min avg.·France

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.

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SurvivalUp next
Sep 23, 2012·5.0

How the earliest humans spread around the world, adapting and surviving against the odds.

02
Age of Empire
Sep 30, 2012·5.0

The story of the first empires which laid the foundations for the modern world.

03
The Word and the Sword
Oct 7, 2012·5.0

Charting the spiritual revolutions that shook the world between 300 BC and 700 AD.

04
Into the Light
Oct 14, 2012·5.0

The Middle Ages, when Vikings explored and pillaged.

05
Age of Plunder
Oct 21, 2012·5.0

Europe's rise from piracy to private enterprise.

06
Revolution
Oct 28, 2012·5.0

A time when people worldwide rose up in the name of freedom and equality.

07
Age of Industry
Nov 4, 2012·5.0

How Britain's Industrial Revolution created the modern world.

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Age of Extremes
Nov 11, 2012

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

Cast

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Andrew Marr
Self - Presenter

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