March 6, 2012 • 57m
This episode follows the birth of civilization in Anatolia and the Middle East. We go back to the very beginnings; hunter-gatherer...Read more
April 6, 2012 • 57m
Today one god is worshipped by two thirds of humanity. It is the culmination of an extraordinary story by which a single deity eme...Read more
October 20, 2012 • 57m
We trace the origins of the Arabs and Islam, from nomadic Bedouins to the sophisticated Nabataean cultures at Petra and the magnif...Read more
September 8, 2012 • 57m
In this film we will reveal how a golden age of invention and scholarship thrived in the Islamic World at a time when Europe linge...Read more
November 3, 2012 • 57m
This spectacular episode explores the extraordinary powers and civilizations that have emerged from central Asia. First the Seljuk...Read more
September 15, 2012 • 57m
At the time of Elizabeth I, the greatest power in the world was not England, France or Florence, it was the Ottoman Empire – one o...Read more
September 15, 2012 • 57m
The film looks at the wider Ottoman world, taking in superb merchants’ houses in Birgi (Anatolia) and Damascus. At the edge of emp...Read more