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 The film contains fascinating and partly unpublished archive material.

We follow the two Texas doctors who invented the modern breast implant and its surgical procedure. H...

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

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

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For several decades, geoscientists have been observing that the Earth is changing rapidly due to hum...

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

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

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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...

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

Although a real awareness of the populations is underway - the multiplication of natural disasters a...

Five times, Earth has faced apocalyptic events that swept nearly all life from the face of the plane...

Oliver is a chimpanzee who not only can walk upright, but does of his own accord. For years there ha...