Everyday Life in Ancient Greece

A guided tour of the history of numbers and how they’ve shaped the development of humankind is at the heart of this unique series. In five...

Who was Homer, and what is the meaning of The Odyssey? In this documentary we follow the footsteps of Ulysses, also known by his Greek name...

Historian Bettany Hughes has embarked on an epic, personal journey. Inspired by Homer's The Odyssey, she will sail the unpredictable Mediterranean...

Expert interviews and gripping reenactments combine to reveal the extraordinary life of Alexander the Great and his burning desire to conquer the...

Tutored by Aristotle, helpless witness to his father's assassination, and a brilliant, pioneering tactician, Alexander the Great had conquered the...

National Geographic's landmark event series, The Greeks, brings together historians, archaeologists, actors, athletes, scientists and artists to...

Join Dave Stotts on an adventure through world history as he tells the stories of the people, places, and events that shaped the ancient world, and...

Archaeologist and historian Richard Miles traces the development of Western civilization, from the first cities in Mesopotamia to the fall of the...

In the fourth and fifth centuries, B.C., the Greeks built an empire that stretched across the Mediterranean from Asia to Spain. They laid the...

Bettany Hughes searches out the real truth about the birth of democracy in ancient Athens 2500 years ago

John Romer recreates the glory and history of Byzantium. From the Hagia Sophia in present-day Istanbul to the looted treasures of the empire now...

1984 Channel 4 documentary series surveying the history of New Testament scholarship, giving an overview of the contemporary New Testament...