Greeks like Alexander truly did change the world in fundamental ways.
Michael Wood's work of the 1990's is truly enthusiastic and captures the viewers attention. Whether you don't know the subject or if you have a strong academic background in it, you are going to find this series compelling.
Woods does a much better job than some of today's PBS history/archaeology presenters who seem to need to center on revisionism for the sake of revisionism, and latch onto some fairly fringe theories. EG, They have style but half of what Neil Oliver and Alice Roberts claim are in fact fringe theories or theories already debunked in just a few years. Same with Bettina Hughes
One thing I will critique when it comes to Woods' Alexander: Not enough attention is paid to his effect on the non-Greek Near East and the profound Hellenizing and organizing as Greek type polis structures. He opened Egypt and integrated it into the wider world, and Hellenized heretofore hermetic and limited Judiasm giving its core thinkers a language and context in which to engage the world, allowing Judiasm to receive and give wisdom. Morover Alexander and the other Greeks with him and following on, integrated the entire near and middle east, creating a open and receptive synthesis that lead to an explosion of knowledge, commerce, frankly, civilization, that had not been present since the bronze age collapse a millennia earlier. And that open system and polis organization was a life giving breath to civilization as it replace the backward looking oppressive Persian system that had stymied growth and thought.
So I do wish had given that as much attention as the fascinating but ultimately passing excursion into Central Asia and beyond.
