World History Audio & Video

Insight, colour, wit and analysis as the BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the stories in their regions.

This audio program offers speeches from a wide variety of thinkers and leaders. You will here important statements made by Philosophers, Religious Leaders, Royalty, Statesman civil rights advocates and more.

"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation...

In the Second World War, every bond between man and man was to perish. Crimes were committed by the Hitler regime that find no equal in scale and wickedness with any that have darkened the human record.

An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem.

This course presents and at the same time critiques a narrative world history from prehistoric times to 1500.

What, if anything, can be learned by studying history? This is the question Will and Ariel Durant...

Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide.

Diamond probes the other side of the equation: what caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates?

The eminent art historian Sir Kenneth Clark was commissioned to write and present an epic examination of Western European culture, defining what he considered to be the crucial phases of its development. Civilisation: A Personal View by Lord Clark would be more than two years in the making, with filming in over 100 locations across 13 countries.