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Empire: World History — 394 episodes
381. Musk, Bezos & The New East India Companies (Ep 1)
380. Algerian Revolution: The Rise of Le Pen (Ep 6)
379. Algerian Revolution: Black Panthers, LSD, & Nina Simone (Ep 5)
378. Algerian Revolution: Birth of Independence (Ep 4)
377. Algerian Revolution: The Battle of Algiers (Ep 3)
376. Algerian Revolution: Repression and Rebellion (Ep 2)
375. Algerian Revolution: The French Invasion (Ep 1)
374. Ken Burns on the American Revolution and Empire
373. The Dark Truth About Mount Rushmore
372. The First British Indians: The Sisters Rejected By Queen Victoria (Ep 4)
371. The First British Indians: Last Sikh In Lahore (Ep 3)
370. The First British Indians: Saving Jews In Nazi Germany (Ep 2)
369. The First British Indians: The Suffragette Princess (Ep 1)
368. Ancient Egypt: The Origin of Abrahamic Religions? (Ep 7)
367. Ancient Egypt: “Tut-mania” And Tutankhamun’s Tomb (Ep 6)
366. Ancient Egypt: Tutankhamun The Boy King (Ep 5)
365. Ancient Egypt: Who Was Nefertiti? (Ep 4)
364. Ancient Egypt: The Fall of Akhenaten (Ep 3)
363. Ancient Egypt: Destroyer Of Gods – Pharaoh Akhenaten (Ep 2)
The Scandal That Shaped Partition: Heartbreak & Secret Deals
362. Ancient Egypt: Great Kings of The Bronze Age (Ep 1)
361. Louis Theroux On The Settlers, The Manosphere, & Tribalism
The Scandal That Shaped Partition: The Affair
360. Spice Wars: The Battle of the East India Companies (Ep 3)
359. Spice Wars: The Birth of New York (Ep 2)
The Scandal That Shaped Partition: The House of Mountbatten
358. Spice Wars: The Rise of the Dutch East India Company (Ep 1)
357. Liberator of Latin America: Revolutionary Hero Or Dictator? (Part 4)
The Scandal That Shaped Partition: India’s First Prime Minister
356. Liberator of Latin America: Descent Into Tyranny (Part 3)
Should The Koh-I-Noor Be Returned? Mamdani vs King Charles III EXPLAINED
355. Liberator of Latin America: Napoleon & The Legions of Hell (Part 2)
354. Liberator of Latin America: Simón Bolívar vs The Spanish Empire (Part 1)
353. Hezbollah, Hostages, & Exploding Pagers (Part 8)
352. Israel’s 1982 Invasion of Lebanon (Part 7)
351. Camp David: The Day Israel & Egypt Made Peace (Part 6)
350. 1973: The Yom Kippur War & The First Oil Crisis (Part 5)
What Is Life Like For Palestinians Under Occupation?
349. Occupation of The West Bank (Part 4)
348. How 1967 Changed The Middle East Forever (Part 3)
Jung Chang On Life Under Mao & Being Banned From China
347. The Six Day War (Part 2)
346. From Suez To The Palestinian Liberation Organisation (Part 1)
345. Chairman Mao: The Cultural Revolution (Ep 6)
344. Chairman Mao: The Great Leap Forward (Ep 5)
Christiane Amanpour On Iran & Trump’s Miscalculations
343. Lebanon: Hezbollah, Israel, & Fifty Years As A Battleground
342. Iran: The Three Ayatollahs – From Revolution to Dynasty
341. Chairman Mao: The Clash With Stalin (Ep 4)
340. Chairman Mao: World War II, Japanese Invasion, & Massacre in Nanjing (Ep 3)
339. Chairman Mao: China's Communist Uprising (Ep 2)
338.Chairman Mao: Birth of A Dictator (Ep 1)
337. Bronze Age Apocalypse: Philistines, Israelites, & Rebuilding The Ruins (Ep 6)
336. Bronze Age Apocalypse: How To Survive The End of The World (Ep 5)
335. Bronze Age Apocalypse: Solving The Mystery of The Collapse (Ep 4)
334. Bronze Age Apocalypse: Did Homer Write History? (Ep 3)
333. Bronze Age Apocalypse: The Fall of Troy with Stephen Fry (Ep 2)
332. Bronze Age Apocalypse: Before The Collapse (Ep 1)
331. The Iranian Revolution: Will The Shah Return To Iran? (Ep 2)
330. The Iranian Revolution: 1979 vs. 2026 (Ep 1)
329. Indian Uprising 1857: The British Raj is Born (Part 8)
328. Indian Uprising 1857: The Reign of Terror (Part 7)
327. Indian Uprising 1857: The British Strike Back (Part 6)
326. Indian Uprising 1857: India’s Joan of Arc – Rani of Jhansi (Part 5)
325. Indian Uprising 1857: The Siege of Lucknow (Part 4)
324. Indian Uprising 1857: Massacre and Revenge in Kanpur (Part 3)
323. Indian Uprising 1857: The Rebels March On Delhi (Part 2)
322. Indian Uprising 1857: The Mutiny (Part 1)
321. Exploding Rum-filled Coffins, Anglo-Indian Sisterhood, & Julia Margaret Cameron
320. Photos That Shook The World: Exposing Leopold in The Congo
319. Heist of St Nicolas: The Medieval Mafia Who Stole Santa (Part 2)
318. Heist of St Nicolas: Raiding Santa's Tomb (Part 1)
317. Churchill's Photographer: From Escaping Genocide to MLK
316. Hitler's Photographer: Nazi Secrets, Eva Braun, & Escaping Justice
315. Controversy, Colonialism, & V.S. Naipaul
314. Rudyard Kipling: Villain or Visionary? (Part 3)
313. Rudyard Kipling: Escaping India & Writing The Jungle Book (Part 2)
312. Rudyard Kipling: Son of Empire (Part 1)
311. Cricket In India: Beating The Brits At Their Own Game (Part 2)
310. The Origin of The Ashes & The Killer Cricket Scandal (Part 1)
309. Tintin, Nazis, & Soviets
308. Asterix and Obelix, Babar The Elephant, & Colonial Cartoons
307. Austen vs Brontë: Unmasking Slavery Heiresses
306. Joseph Conrad: From Russian Exile To The Heart of Darkness
305. Orwell: Dark Secrets, The CIA, & His Forgotten Failures (Part 4)
304. Orwell: Animal Farm, 1984 & Totalitarian Dystopia (Part 3)
303. Orwell: Fighting Fascism In The Spanish Civil War (Part 2)
302. Orwell: The Anti-Imperialist In India & Burma (Part 1)
301. Gaza: The First Arab-Israeli War & The Creation of The Gaza Strip (Part 11)
300. Gaza: The 1948 War (Part 10)
299. Gaza: The Palestinian Revolt, The Black and Tans, & Bomber Harris (Part 9)
298. Gaza: The British Occupation of Palestine (Part 8)
297. Gaza in WW1: A Rematch For Gallipoli (Part 7)
296. Ottoman Gaza: Gunpowder Conquests & Rising Nationalism (Part 6)
295. Crusader Gaza: Saladin & Richard The Lionheart (Part 5)
294. Gaza & The Islamic Conquest (Part 4)
293. The Gaza Erotic Literature Festival: Byzantine Gaza (Part 3)
292. Ancient Gaza: From The Assyrians to The Romans (Part 2)
291. Ancient Gaza: The Philistines (Part 1)
290. Medieval India’s Alexander The Great: The Cholas (Part 2)
289. Medieval India’s Game of Thrones: The Cholas (Part 1)
288. Suez Crisis: The End of The British Empire (Part 5)
287. Suez Crisis: Lies, Cyanide Pills, & Soviet Tanks (Part 4)
286. Suez Crisis: Hungary Revolts & Britain Bombs Egypt (Part 3)
285. Suez Crisis: The Secret Meeting Between Israel, Britain & France (Part 2)
284. Suez Crisis: The British Imperialist vs The Arab Nationalist (Part 1)
283. Partition: East Pakistan Becomes Bangladesh (Part 6)
282. Partition: The Birth of The Kashmir Conflict (Part 5)
281. Partition: Why Was India Split In Two? (Part 4)
280. Partition: The Creation of Pakistan (Part 3)
279. Partition: How Dubai Almost Became Part of India (Part 2)
278. Partition: India’s Break With Burma (Part 1)
277. America Drills Through Hell’s Gorge (Part 5)
276. The Biggest Corruption Scandal in French History (Part 4)
The Great Fire of London
275. The Battle To Build The Panama Canal (Part 3)
274. Pirates of Panama: Francis Drake Strikes Spain's Empire (Part 2)
273. Panama’s Brutish Conquistador Who Found The Pacific and Lost His Head (Part 1)
272. Solving The Mystery of America's Lost Colony
271. Canada’s Dark Secret: Stolen Children, Unmarked Graves, & Survival Stories (Ep 5)
270. The Day The Brits Burned The White House (Ep 4)
269. Colonising Canada: The Truth Behind ‘The Last of The Mohicans’ (Ep 3)
268. Colonising Canada: Why Does Quebec Speak French? (Ep 2)
267. Colonising Canada: Kidnapping, Scurvy, & Fool’s Gold (Ep 1)
266. American Greenland: Nazis, Secret Nuclear Bases, & Trump (Ep 4)
265. Danish Greenland: Eradicating Inuit Culture (Ep 3)
264. Viking Greenland: Mysteries of the Lost Norse Settlers (Ep 2)
Murder in the Congo, The Cuban Missile Crisis, & India in the UN (EXTRACT)
263. Viking Greenland: Erik The Red & Horny Zombies (Ep 1)
262. Berlin Blockade: Airlift Across The Iron Curtain (Ep 2)
261. Race To Berlin 1945: A Devastated City Divided (Ep 1)
260. Yalta: Signing Away The Fate of The World (Ep 5)
259. Eastern Europe & “The Great Betrayal” (Ep 4)
258. The Big Three & The Big Carve Up (Ep 3)
257. Churchill, FDR, & Mind Games at Yalta (Ep 2)
256. Stalin & 8 Days That Changed The World (Ep 1)
255. Victorian Narcos: From Opium To Fentanyl (Ep 9)
254. Victorian Narcos: Fire Monkeys, Iron Gunships, & Peasant Warfare (Ep 8)
253. Victorian Narcos: Drug Dealers Lead Britain to War (Ep 7)
252. Victorian Narcos: Selling Drugs To The Queen (Ep 6)
251. Victorian Narcos: Flooding China With Indian Opium (Ep 5)
250. Victorian Narcos: Banished From Beijing (Ep 4)
249. Victorian Narcos: Doomed Envoy to China (Ep 3)
248. Victorian Narcos: Sex, Drugs, & The Opium Agency (Ep 2)
247. Victorian Narcos: Tea Starts A Drug War (Ep 1)
246. Ireland Transformed: From Banning Condoms to Exporting Viagra
245. Inside The Good Friday Agreement with Alastair Campbell
244. The Troubles: IRA Secrets Exposed (Ep 4)
243. The Troubles: London Bombings, Hunger Strikes, & The Graveside Grenade (Ep 3)
242. The Troubles: Bloody Sunday & The British Army in Belfast (Ep 2)
241. The Troubles: War in the Streets of Northern Ireland (Ep 1)
240. Ireland’s Fight For Freedom: The Irish Civil War (Ep 3)
239. Ireland’s Fight For Freedom: The Rise of The IRA (Ep 2)
238. Ireland’s Fight For Freedom: The Easter Rising (Ep 1)
237. The Great Famine: The Irish Exodus to America (Ep 2)
236. The Great Famine: The Blight Strikes Ireland (Ep 1)
235. The Viceroy, The Psychopath, and The Merchant: The Irish in Empire (Ep 3)
234. Battle of the Boyne: Clash of Two Kings (Ep 2)
233. Blood and Betrayal: Oliver Cromwell's Irish Invasion (Ep 1)
Legacy: Genghis Khan
232. Colonising Ireland: The First Plantations (Ep 2)
231. Colonising Ireland: Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, & The Tudor Conquest (Ep 1)
230. Britain’s Last Colony: Trump, Brexit, and Russia-Ukraine (Ep 2)
229. Britain’s Last Colony: The Second World War, Forced Deportations, and 9/11 (Ep 1)
228. The Man Who Lived A Thousand Lives: Prisoner of War (Ep 2)
227. The Man Who Lived A Thousand Lives: Taming Nature (Ep 1)
226. The Rise and Fall of East India Company Painting (Ep 2)
225. Painting the Empire: Art of the East India Company (Ep 1)
224. Empire in Your Garden
223. Empire of Plants: From Kew Gardens to Botany Bay
222. The Downfall of the Mughals (Ep 3)
221. War of Succession: The Battle That Shook India (Ep 2)
220. Battle of Brothers: The Puritan vs The Mystic (Ep 1)
219. Building The Taj Mahal: Love, Loss, & Splendour (Ep 2)
218. Creator of The Taj Mahal: Shah Jahan’s Rise to Power (Ep 1)
217. Zebras and Zodiacs: Jahangir’s Art Revolution
216. Seeds of British India: England’s First Ambassador to the Mughal Court
215. Jahangir: A World of Light And Darkness
214. The Empire of Frankincense & Myrrh
213. How Three Wise Men Became Three Kings
212. Who Were The Three Wise Men?
211. A Beautiful World: The Art of Akbar
210. Akbar the Great: Revolutionising Religious Tolerance
209. Akbar the Great
208. Humayun Reconquers India
207. The Stargazing Hippie vs The Lion King
206. Babur: Guns, Gardens & Diamonds
205. Babur: The Taking of Delhi
204. Babur: The First Mughal Emperor
203. Captain Hook, Peter Pan & The Dark Side of Neverland
202. Long John Silver: The Truth Behind Treasure Island
201. The Raj at War
200. The East India Company’s Global Manhunt
199. Robbing the World’s Wealthiest Dynasty
198. The Pirate Trial of the Century
197. The Pirate Hunter
196. Blackbeard’s Reign of Terror
195. Blackbeard & the Pirates of the Caribbean
194. Empire of Numbers: Fibonacci and the Birth of Modern Money
193. Empire of Numbers: The Indian Origin of Arabic Numerals
192. Native American Chiefs, the Founding of Canada, and the KKK: Scots in America
191. Slave, Slaver, Abolitionist: Three Scots in Africa
190. Rags to Riches: The Scots in India
189. Culloden: Bonnie Prince Charlie’s Last Stand
188. Bonnie Prince Charlie: The Young Pretender
187. The Birth of Britain
E186. Scotland: A Nation in Crisis
185. The God Kings of Angkor Wat
184. The Buddhist Merlin
183. The Poet Kings: Taking Hinduism to Southeast Asia
182. The Lady Macbeth of China
181. The Dragon Empress: China’s Game of Thrones
180. Gold & God: Connecting India & Ancient Rome
179. The Golden Road: Rise of the Indosphere
178. The Vietnam War: Nixon, Vietnamisation, and the Fall of Saigon
177. The Vietnam War: Lyndon Johnson, Americanisation, and Operation Rolling Thunder
176. The Vietnam War: The Rise of Ho Chi Minh
175. The CIA vs Fidel Castro
174. The Cuban Revolution
173. The Korean War: Dividing the Peninsula
172. The Birth of North Korea
171. The Bengal Famine: Chaos in Calcutta
170. The Bengal Famine: A Disaster on the Horizon
169. Freedom Fighters Betrayed: Colonising the Philippines
168. Teddy Roosevelt Takes on the Old World
167. Paradise Lost: The Taking of Hawaii
166. How To Hide An Empire
165. A Massacre at Dawn
164. How the West was Won: The Truth Behind the Westerns
163. The Tattooed Girl: From Mormon to Native American
162. The Oregon Trail & the Gold Rush
161. The Trail of Tears
160. Native Nations vs Thomas Jefferson
159. The American Revolution: Building The New Rome (Ep 4)
158. The American Revolution: Life, Liberty & The Pursuit of Happiness (Ep 3)
157. The American Revolution: The Shot Heard Around the World (Ep 2)
156. The American Revolution: No Taxation Without Representation (Ep 1)
155. The Founding Fathers: Benjamin Franklin (Ep 5)
154. The Founding Fathers: John Adams (Ep 4)
153. The Founding Fathers: Alexander Hamilton (Ep 3)
152. The Founding Fathers: Thomas Jefferson (Ep 2)
151. The Founding Fathers: George Washington (Ep 1)
150. Worlds Colliding: Seizing Settlers in New England
149. Pocahontas: Kidnapped in Virginia
148. America: The Empire of Liberty
147. Queen Victoria: Empress of India (Ep 4)
146. Queen Victoria: The Empire on Which the Sun Never Sets (Ep 3)
145. Victoria & Albert (Ep 2)
144. The Making of Queen Victoria (Ep 1)
143. Isabella of Castile: The Spanish Inquisition, the Conquest of Granada, and Columbus
142. Isabella of Castile: Uniting Spain
141. Nur Jahan: The Most Powerful Mughal Woman
140. Nur Jahan: The Light of the World
139. Mrs Genghis Khan
138. The Graceful Reed: Ruling the Islamic Empire
137. Empress Theodora: Making Heaven on Earth
136. Empress Theodora: From the Brothel to the Throne
135. Helena: Queen of the World and Finder of the One True Cross
134. Cleopatra: The Would-Be Empress of Rome
133. Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile
132. Journey to Nalanda and the Library of Jewels
131. Buddhism Goes to China
130. India meets Rome: Making the Image of the Buddha
129. Ashoka: The Great Buddhist Emperor of India
128. The Life of the Buddha
127. Inventing Curry: The British Taste for India
126. Punch & Chilli: The East India Company at the Table
125. The Origin of the Houthis
124. Saddam Hussein vs The Ayatollah
123. Hezbollah: The Party of God
122. Iran & Saudi Arabia: The Rivalry that Split the Islamic World
121. The Fall of the Shah of Shahs
120. The Iranian Revolution: The Rise of Ayatollah Khomeini
119. The Last Shah
118. Iran's First Revolution
117. Nader Shah: The Sword of Persia
116. Isfahan: The City of Dreams
115. The Great Conversion: How Iran became Shia
114. The Persian Renaissance
113. Timur: Scourge of God
112. Ferdowsi: How One Poet Saved Persian Civilisation
111. Shackleton: The Hero of Antarctica
110. Antarctica: The Continent that wouldn’t be Conquered
109. The Endeavour: Into the Unknown
108. The Endeavour & the Great Southern Continent
107. China's Greatest Admiral: The Story of Zheng He
106. The Rise of Islam
105. The Last Great War of Antiquity
104. How Persian Religion Changed the World
103. Alexander the Great: Defeating Darius
102. Alexander the Great: The Conquest of Persia
101. Salamis: Athens’ Revenge
100. Thermopylae: Xerxes, Leonidas, and the 300
99. Marathon and the Rise of Greece
98. Darius the Great: Ruling from India to the Mediterranean
97. Cyrus the Great: Building the First Superpower
96. Empires of Iran
95. The History of Putin's War
Welcome to the Empire Club
94. The Bloody History of Russia & Ukraine
93. Murdering the Romanovs: The End of a Dynasty
92. Killing Rasputin
91. Lenin and The Rise of the Bolsheviks
90. The Russian Revolution: Overthrowing the Tsar
89. The Final Act of the Great Game
88. The Russo-Japanese War: Asia Strikes Back
87. Tolstoy: War and the Russian Empire
86. Crushing the Khans: Russia Seizes the Centre of the World
85. The Russian Conquest of America
84. A Tale of Two Nurses: Seacole & Nightingale
83. The Charge of the Light Brigade
82. Crimea: The War on Repeat
81. The Graveyard of Empires
80. 1842: The Retreat from Kabul
79. Invading Afghanistan: The Return of a King
78. The Battle of the Spies
77. The Great Game Begins
76. The Empress & The General
75. Catherine the Great: The Golden Age
74. Peter the Great: The First Emperor
73. Ivan the Terrible and the Founding of Russia
72. The Russian Empire and the Great Game
71. Nazis, reparations, and laws 'just for the English to see'
70. The Haitian Revolution, Dutch royals, and what happened to the Caribs?
69. A Reckoning with Slavery
68. The Long Death of Slavery
67. Slavery's Demise
66. Wilberforce and the Fight for Freedom
65. When the Enslaved Took on Napoleon
64. The Black Spartacus
63. Creating Sierra Leone: The Land of the Free
62. When Slaves Fought for the British Empire
61. The Black Abolitionist
60. Britain's Most Famous Slave
59. Francis Barber: Abolition, the Navy, and the Enlightenment
58. Dr Johnson's Black Heir
57. Tacky's Revolt: An Atlantic Slave War
56. Tacky's Revolt: Causes of the Rebellion
55. The Fall of the Royal African Company
54. Royal African Company: Slavery Inc
53. Barbary Corsairs: Raiding the British isles
52. The Slave who Ruled
51. Vikings: Slavs to Slaves
50. Rome: A Slave Society
49. The Dawn of Everything
48. The History of Slavery
47. Rebels Against the Raj
46. The Mau Mau, the court case, and the hidden documents
45. Successors to the Romans, progressive harems, and living Ottomans
44. The Legacy of the Ottomans, Queen of the Desert, and giant turbans
43. The Birth of Saudi Arabia
42. The Fiery End of the Ottoman Empire
41. The Rise of Ataturk
40. Origins of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
39. Lawrence of Arabia and the Arab Revolt
38. Sykes-Picot: Carving up the Middle-East
37. The Armenian Genocide: Death Marches
36. The Armenian Genocide: Road to the Deportations
35. Gallipoli: Death at the Cliff Edge
34. The Sick Man of Europe
33. Lady Mary: Our Woman in Constantinople
32. The Greatest Ottoman Adventurer
31. Conquering the Night: The History of Coffee
30. Sultanas to Slaves: Voices from the Harem
29. The Tudors and the Turks
28. The Battle of Lepanto
27. The Siege of Cyprus
26. Suspicion and Sorrow in Suleiman's Court
25. Suleiman the Magnificent
24. The Fall of Constantinople
23. The First of the Ottomans
22. Byzantium and the Rise of the Turks
21. The Ottoman Empire
20. Nationhood, the Indian constitution, and the railways
19. Federal India, indentured labour, and naked yogis
18. The Empire Implodes
17. Rishi Sunak's Ancestry: Indians in East Africa
16. Partition
15. The Last Viceroy of India
14. Muhammad Ali Jinnah
13. The Patient Assassin
12. Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary
11. Queens and the Koh-i-Noor
10. Killing for the Koh-i-Noor
9. The Curse of the Koh-i-Noor
8. The Koh-i-Noor Diamond
7. Mahatma Gandhi
6. Queen Elizabeth II & Empire
5. The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
4. Between Two Massacres: 1857-1919
3. Mutiny, Uprising, and Rebellion
2. Company Rule in India
1. The East India Company
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