The documentary tells the exciting story of the beginnings of surgery through to its specialization - a fascinating journey through time from the Stone Age with the first skull openings through antiquity and the early modern era to the first heart operation. The film was shot at the most important locations in the history of surgery - including Italy, France, Germany, Austria, Great Britain, Hungary and the USA. The film contains fascinating and partly unpublished archive material.

Every day, we eat and breathe tiny plastic residues. What effects does this insidious contamination ...

Does infinity exist? Can we experience the Infinite? In an animated film (created by artists from 10...

By decoding ancient hieroglyphic texts, Jean-François Champollion gave voice to an enigmatic civiliz...

The Dangers of the Fly is an educational film made by Ernesto Gunche and Eduardo Martínez de la Pera...

The world's leading Egyptologists are on a quest to uncover the secrets of Howard Carter's history-m...

The documentary tells two very different human fates in the 1920s Soviet Union. Nikolai Vavilov was ...

A biographical documentary about the Belgian free-diver Fred Buyle and his art of silent diving.

David Attenborough and scientist Johan Rockström examine Earth's biodiversity collapse and how this ...

At the edge of our solar system supposedly lies an immense planet. Five to ten times the size of the...

In 1872, in the cave of Cavillon in Monaco, archaeologist Émile Rivière (1835-1922) unearthed an app...

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

The first American space station Skylab is found in pieces scattered in Western Australia. Putting t...

Billions of years ago, Venus may have harbored life-giving habitats similar to those on the early Ea...

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

This documentary delves into the mysteries surrounding the Neanderthals and what their fossil record...

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