Civilisations: Rise and Fall
Documentary
Four mighty civilisations - Rome, Egypt, Japan's Samurai and the Aztecs. Their legends remain - now priceless artefacts reveal what led them to fall into the echoes of history.
Director
N/A
Writers
N/A
Stars
Sophie Okonedo, Alastair Campbell, Salima Ikram
Release Date
November 24, 2025
Language
English
Country
United Kingdom
💬 7
Reviews
🎭 Top Cast
Sophie Okonedo
as Self - Narrator
Alastair Campbell
as Self - Political Strategist
Salima Ikram
as Self - Egyptologist
Joann Fletcher
as Self - Egyptologist
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Iszi Lawrence
as Self - Author
Max Hastings
as Self - War Historian
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
as Self - Author and Historian
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Dominic Sandbrook
as Self - Historian
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Shushma Malik
as Self - Historian
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Caroline Dodds Pennock
as Self - Historian
🎬 Technical Specs
Color
Color
Production
BBC Studios
🎯 Categories
Documentary
⭐ Featured Review
Awful
"Absurdly portentous announcers, smug scripted down-with-the-Peeps selected commentators/'historians', all leading to tortuous attempts to grind out simplistic parallels with the present. The principle of lesson is to illustrate the ghastly trajectory of the BBC from the original (Kenneth Clark) Civilisation to this pulp...."
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📖 Synopsis
Four mighty civilisations - Rome, Egypt, Japan's Samurai and the Aztecs. Their legends remain - now priceless artefacts reveal what led them to fall into the echoes of history.