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 The film contains fascinating and partly unpublished archive material.

How were the giant stone heads of Rapa Nui – also known as Easter Island – carved and raised, and wh...
Also known as The Operation of Dr. Alejandro Posadas. Filmed with early orthochromatic film in the H...

Discovered about twenty years ago, the immense masses of water vapor that fly over the Amazon, calle...

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

Since the summer of 2020, boats along the Atlantic coast from the Strait of Gibraltar to the Bay of ...

Explores the Pyramids of Giza as Egyptologists try to unravel the mysteries and decipher the clues b...

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

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 ...

Chris Hemsworth has a real passion for sharks. The Hollywood star talks to experts to find out more ...

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

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

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

Twenty years after A Brief History of Time flummoxed the world with its big numbers and black holes,...