Synopsis

In this Timewatch program, David Olusoga explores not whether the British Empire was a force for good or ill, but how its history has been depicted on British television over the past seven decades. Drawing on decades of the documentary series Timewatch, alongside numerous other treasures from the BBC archive, Olusoga reveals how Britain’s Caribbean colonies prospered through slave labor, how India descended into chaos after independence, and how Africa was exploited for its mineral wealth. O