This documentary delves into the mysteries surrounding the Neanderthals and what their fossil record tells us about their lives and disappearance.

Darwin's great insight – that life has evolved over millions of years by natural selection – has bee...

In this documentary, we go back to the beginning and tell the origin story of Scotty the T. Rex and ...

When the first railroads were built some two hundred years ago, they brought about a revolutionary c...

Cave paintings and lunar calendars exist in the caves and remains of prehistoric hunters studied rec...

In the first decades of the 20th century, when life was being transformed by scientific innovations,...

A montage of newscasts tracing the events of the "damned war" and the German invasion of 1940.

Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert ...

A differing group of people – a wildlife photographer, a marine biologist, a whale rescuer, and a cr...

Woolly Mammoth: Secrets from the Ice is a documentary presented by English anatomist Dr. Alice Rober...

Forensic experts scan Pompeii’s victims to investigate why they didn’t escape the eruption.

In 150 years, twice marked by total destruction —a terrible earthquake in 1923 and incendiary bombin...

A French documentary or, one might say more accurately, a mockumentary, by director William Karel wh...

San Francisco Bay is home to various shark species. Alcatraz guards made sure the prisoners knew it,...

How were the giant stone heads of Rapa Nui – also known as Easter Island – carved and raised, and wh...

The Kush Empire was an ancient superpower that dominated the Nile Valley and rivaled the Egyptians, ...

Why did the Roman Empire, which dominated Europe and the Mediterranean for five centuries, inexorabl...