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 The film contains fascinating and partly unpublished archive material.

An investigation about three scientific enigmas. The shroud of Turin, an unexplained image of a preg...

Why is music vital to our brain? Through an international scientific and neurological investigation...
In this DVD, Mr. Riddle shares the results of his much reading and research in the area of Carbon 14...

Hormones – without them, nothing would work in our body: the messenger substances control our physic...


This explores the mysterious and catastrophic collapse of ancient civilizations during the late Bron...

Drawing on the book of the same name, League of Denial crafts a searing two-hour indictment of the N...

How do you brave acute mountain sickness? We talk to researchers, doctors and mountaineers about a s...

Fascinating new translations and fresh research are transforming the myth of Atlantis from the realm...

Neglected by her workaholic husband, a young wife, Maren Abbott, meets a man through Wandering Eye -...

How would natural habitats develop without human interference? In this documentary we follow an inte...

With the help of diver and biologist Laurent Ballesta, a scientific expedition explores three sunken...

If the ice sheet covering Greenland melted, global sea levels would rise 21 feet, profoundly impacti...

Irish director Donagh Coleman explores the extraordinary phenomenon of Tukdam, whereby some Tibetan...