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Civilisations: Rise and Fall (2025)

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Japan
3.359 min

Season 1 • Episode 4

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Japan

Dec 15, 2025

For 250 years, Japan has thrived, largely cut off from western influence - until US gunboats arrive. In the face of an industrialised west, how will reformers, the shogun and the samurai class react?

Overview

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.

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ancient egyptancient romeancient japanancient empiresaztecs
First AiredNov 24, 2025
StatusOngoing
Seasons1·Episodes4
BBC Two

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Sophie Okonedo

Sophie Okonedo

Self - Narrator

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