In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great is a BBC documentary television series, first shown in 1998. Written and presented by historian and broadcaster Michael Wood, it retraced the travels of Alexander the Great, from Macedonia to the borders of India and back to Mesopotamia.
Wood was prevented by the government of Greece from interviewing Eugene N. Borza, a professor specializing in the history of Macedonia, anywhere within Greece, apparently because of Borza's controversial views on the ethnic differences between the Greeks and Macedonians in ancient times.
Episode one: Son of God
Macedonia to Turkey
First broadcast on BBC2 on 14 July 1998
Episode two: Lord of Asia
Zagros to Persepolis
First broadcast on BBC2 on 21 July 1998
Episode three: Across the Hindu Kush
The golden road to Samarkand
First broadcast on BBC2 on 28 July 1998
Episode four: To The Ends of the Earth
Pakistan to Babylon
First broadcast on BBC2 on 4 August 1998
The series was broadcast in the United States on PBS on 4 and 5 May 1998.
The series was released on DVD by BBC Worldwide, and on DVD by PBS Home Video in 2004.
In an article published in Summer 1998, Eugene N. Borza expressed approval of the series but was unhappy with the accompanying book.
The book In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great: A Journey from Greece to Asia, by Michael Wood, is a companion to the television series. It was published, by the University of California Press in Berkeley and Los Angeles, by Routledge in New York, in 1997.
The book was ranked fifth in the original non-fiction section of the Bookwatch bestsellers list published in The Independent on 14 August 1998, and was included in the lists published on 28 August and 18 September 1998.