Andrew Marr: A History Of The World

BBC History, Broadcast on BBC 1

Documentary, television series presented by Andrew Marr that covers 70,000 years of world history from the beginning of human civilization, as African nomadic peoples spread out around the world and settled down to become the first farmers, up to the twentieth century.
The series is noted for its elaborate, Hollywood-like recreations of many of the people and events on which Marr frames his story.