A look at the role of slavery in the development of wealth in the United Kingdom
The series spans 1 season with 4 episodes in total (avg. 4 per season).
Originally aired on Channel 4.
Executive produced by Phillip Whitehead.
2024
Liverpool, 2022 - Ashley Dale and nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel are shot dead at home, victims of feuding gangs. Can the police bring the killers to justice?
2024
Martijn Blekendaal and Finbarr Wilbrink travel along the Underground Railroad, the underground network that helped thousands of enslaved people escape to freedom. They ask themselves: How does the past of slavery impact contemporary life in America?
2021
In the 1980s, Liverpool became the epicentre of a drugs boom that was to change Britain forever. With unprecedented access to some of the biggest players, this is the story of how drugs went mainstream and dealing became a multi-billion pound business
2025
How did a small island once rule over a quarter of the world's population? This shared history still shapes us today - and billions of people are part of its story.
1990
A documentary on the American Civil War narrated by Ken Burns, covering the secession of the Confederacy to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
2021
See the real modern-day Amazonia through an exploration of the Amazon Basin, meeting a different group of people who live there in each episode.
2020
The history of decolonization from the point of view of colonized peoples, an epic story that still resonates and reverberates to this day.
2023
In keeping with the original project, this series seeks to reframe the country's history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.
1997
The complex life of Thomas Jefferson, who wrote that "all men are created equal" yet owned slaves, is recounted by master filmmaker Ken Burns in this probing documentary. Covering Jefferson's diplomatic work in France, his two presidential terms, his retirement at Monticello and more.
Masterpiece
1 votes
Britain's Slave Trade
Ended
No
English
9/1/1999
9/22/1999
