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 The film contains fascinating and partly unpublished archive material.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...

Discovered about twenty years ago, the immense masses of water vapor that fly over the Amazon, calle...
In this DVD, Mr. Riddle shares the results of his much reading and research in the area of Carbon 14...

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

A mechanic discovers the fossil of a huge carnivorous dinosaur, unleashing a war between scientists,...

Embark on a delightful journey into the world of dogs in this documentary that reveals scientific an...

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...

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

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

The sun is the miracle that makes everything possible - but also the greatest danger. For the first ...

In 1872, in the cave of Cavillon in Monaco, archaeologist Émile Rivière (1835-1922) unearthed an app...
Also known as The Operation of Dr. Alejandro Posadas. Filmed with early orthochromatic film in the H...

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