他，在25岁时征服波斯帝国，在30岁前就征服大半个世界，足迹远至印度；本节目将追随一代伟人--亚历山大的脚步，进行一趟两万英里的旅程。
在这部得奖的探险节目中，麦可伍德踏上两千英里的旅程，从希腊长途跋涉到印度，追随亚历山大迈向胜利的足迹。与他同行的有黎巴嫩商人、伊朗朝圣客以及阿富汗游击队，以搭乘吉普车、火车、船隻、骆驼以及徒步的方式，将过去重要的历史事件与今日的现实交织在一起，让观眾以全新的眼光，审视这位传奇与成就仍在各世纪造成迴响的伟人。

Michael Wood argues that the most important and influential British kings were a father, daughter, and grandson who lived over a thousand yea rs ago during the age of the Vikings.
Alfred of Wessex
King Alfred and the Anglo SaxonsEpisode 1 of 3
King Alfred the Great fights a desperate guerrilla war in the marshes of Somerset - burning the cakes on the way- before his decisive victory at Edington. Creating towns, trade and coinage, reviving learning and literacy, Alfred then laid the foundations of a single kingdom of 'all the English'. Filmed on location from Reading to Rome, using original texts read in Old English, and interviews with leading scholars, Michael Wood describes a man who was 'not just the greatest Briton, but one of the greatest rulers of any time or place'.
The Lady of the Mercians
King Alfred and the Anglo SaxonsEpisode 2 of 3
In this second episode, Alfred's children continue the family plan to create a kingdom of all the English.
Michael Wood recovers the story of Alfred's daughter Aethelflaed, the ruler of Mercia, from a copy of a lost chronicle written in Mercia in her lifetime which in the film we hear read in Old English. One of the great forgotten figures in British history, Aethelflaed led armies, built fortresses, campaigned against the Vikings and was a brilliant diplomat. Her fame spread across the British Isles, beloved by her warriors and her people, she was known simply as 'the Lady of the Mercians'. Without her, concludes Michael Wood, 'England might never have happened'.
Aethelstan: The First King of England
King Alfred and the Anglo SaxonsEpisode 3 of 3
Travelling from Devon to Cumbria, Scotland and Rome, Michael Wood tells the tale of King Alfred's grandson Aethelstan's wars, his learning and his lawmaking, showing how he created a national coinage and tracing the origin of the English parliament to the king's new assembly politics. But there's also a dark side, with later legends that the king had his brother drowned at sea. In his last desperate struggle, Aethelstan defeated a huge invasion of Vikings and Scots in what became known as the Anglo-Saxon 'Great War'.
Wood argues that Aethelstan was one of the greatest English monarchs, and with his grandfather Alfred, his father Edward and his aunt Aethelflaed, a member of our most remarkable royal family and 'even more than the Tudors, the most gifted and influential rulers in British history'.

Michael Wood looks at history through the eyes of ordinary people.

伊恩·麦凯伦爵士朗读诗歌，迈克尔·伍德实地追踪旅程。他们共同勾勒出中国最伟大的诗人杜甫不平凡的文字、一生和时代。在这部西方首部关于杜甫的电影中，迈克尔通过公路、火车和河船追寻他的足迹。一路上，他遇到了普通人、舞蹈家和音乐家，他们帮助讲述了一位诗人的神奇故事，他的文字在几个世纪以来一直引起共鸣，描述了陷入战争、腐败、饥荒和自然灾害中的普通人的经历。"我是特权阶层中的一员。如果我的生活如此苦涩，那么普通人的生活又有多糟糕呢？"

Historian Michael Wood returns to his first great love, the Anglo-Saxon world, to reveal the origins of our literary heritage. Focusing on Beowulf and drawing on other Anglo-Saxon classics, he traces the birth of English poetry back to the Dark Ages.
Travelling across the British Isles from East Anglia to Scotland and with the help of Nobel prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney, actor Julian Glover, local historians and enthusiasts, he brings the story and language of this iconic poem to life.

Complete four part series exploring the life of the world's greatest and most famous writer. Presenter-led, mixing travel, adventure, live action interviews and specially shot documentary and live action sequences with the RSC on the road. A history series - it focuses not on the plays, but on the history and sets the life of the poet in the extraordinary times in which he lived. We are introduced to the dark world of Queen Elizabeth's police state - a time of surveillance, militarism and foreign wars. We are reminded that Shakespeare lived through the Spanish Armada, the Gunpowder Plot, the colonisation of the New World and the beginnings of British power in America. But most importantly Shakespeare also lived through England’s Cultural Revolution: an enforced split with the old medieval English spirit world which was to lead the English people into a brave new Protestant future.