In Search of the Trojan War is a six-part BBC TV documentary series written and presented by Michael Wood, first broadcast in 1985 on BBC2.

It examines the extent to which historical and archeological evidence matches the tale of the Trojan War as recounted by Homer in The Iliad.

Wood compares to what extent the historical and archeological evidence matches with the tale of the Trojan War.

[2] To this end he interviewed numerous experts including Elizabeth French, George E. Mylonas, Colin Renfrew, and Donald F. Easton, among others.

Michael Wood's motivation was to seek a legend: a character as deeply embedded in the collective memory of his audience as King Arthur had been in the earlier series; he sought Helen, the face that launched a thousand ships, although, as he himself remarks, romance is something which leaves no traces in the archaeological record.