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Quick Info

Rating

7.9/10

Release2012

Seasons1

Episodes8

StatusEnded

Networks

BBC One

Production

Erste Weltweit Medien

Discovery

BBC

TV Show

Andrew Marr's History of the World

7.9

2012

Documentary

Synopsis

Andrew Marr's History of the World is a 2012 BBC documentary television series presented by Andrew Marr that covers 70,000 years of world history from the beginning of human civilisation, as African nomadic peoples spread out around the world and settled down to become the first farmers, up to the twentieth century.

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