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 The film contains fascinating and partly unpublished archive material.
David Attenborough and scientist Johan Rockström examine Earth's biodiversity collapse and how this ...
Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.
On Easter Sunday 2012 the UK's Channel 4 showed a programme entitled Crucifixion in which Gunther vo...
We follow leading experts on a quest to unlock the mysteries surrounding the tomb of Christ, using t...
A biographical documentary about the Belgian free-diver Fred Buyle and his art of silent diving.
Bacteria, viruses, but also fungi, algae, pollen, and even insects: micro-organisms thrive and circu...
Filmmaker Werner Herzog combs through the film archives of volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft t...
This explores the mysterious and catastrophic collapse of ancient civilizations during the late Bron...
When filmmaker Debra Chasnoff faces stage-4 cancer, she turns her lens on herself and the disease. W...
30 years after the Chernobyl catastrophe and 5 years after Fukushima it is time to see what has been...
Five times, Earth has faced apocalyptic events that swept nearly all life from the face of the plane...
Chris Hemsworth has a real passion for sharks. The Hollywood star talks to experts to find out more ...
Gombessa Expedition 1 To dive for the Coelacanth is to go back in time. In 1938, when it was known ...
As obesity progresses inexorably, Sylvie Gilman and Thierry de Lestrade investigate the causes of th...
When fugitive human astronaut Virdon is shot, his chimp companion Galen must charm an old flame into...
In 1872, in the cave of Cavillon in Monaco, archaeologist Émile Rivière (1835-1922) unearthed an app...