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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

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Season 1

8.0/1073 votes
Age of Plunder
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/21/2012
Europe's rise from piracy to private enterprise.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
7.9/1086 votes
The Word and the Sword
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/2012
Charting the spiritual revolutions that shook the world between 300 BC and 700 AD.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
7.9/1075 votes
Into the Light
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/14/2012
The Middle Ages, when Vikings explored and pillaged.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
7.9/1079 votes
Revolution
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/28/2012
A time when people worldwide rose up in the name of freedom and equality.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
7.9/1071 votes
Age of Industry
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/2012
How Britain's Industrial Revolution created the modern world.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
7.7/10105 votes
Survival
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/2012
How the earliest humans spread around the world, adapting and surviving against the odds.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
7.7/1090 votes
Age of Empire
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/30/2012
The story of the first empires which laid the foundations for the modern world.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
7.6/1066 votes
Age of Extremes
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/11/2012
The atom bomb and other developments in the twentieth century – our age.
Director: Guy Smith
Writer: Unknown