Starting from the colonial city of Trujillo, this documentary reveals natural and archeological features along the north coast of Peru, where the Moche culture thrived from the 1st Century BC to the 6th Century AD.

NOVA's groundbreaking investigation explores how new discoveries are transforming views of our earli...

In 79 A.D., Mount Vesuvius erupted, killing 2,000 people. This documentary asks what happened next a...

Buenos Aires, 1880. A journalist interviews Manuel Esteban Corvalán, one of the last living men who ...

This documentary examines the mysterious practice of mummifying animals in ancient Egypt as research...

In Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers peer deep into the cosmos in search for answers concerning th...

The film Terre Magellaniche represents the fruit of multiple and risky trips that the explorer Alber...

Bones of the Buddha is a 2013 television documentary produced by Icon Films and commissioned by WNET...

From the shambles, eminences raise to claim what once belonged to them. Amid danger, mystery and ad...

Two hundred and fifty thousand years ago, the first direct representative of our species appeared on...

Women workers stand up to the toxic flower industry in Colombia.

The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds all the voices of the earth and those ...

In Israel, a joint French-Israeli scientific mission is set to unearth the secrets of the hill of Ki...

In 16th century feudal Japan the war between the Iga clan and the Kouga clan continues unabated. Typ...

In Morocco, new excavations on the site of Jebel Irhoud upset the generally accepted view of the dat...

With stunning views of eruptions and lava flows, Werner Herzog captures the raw power of volcanoes a...

Berlin’s Museum Island, the cultural center of the German capital on the Spree river, houses a large...