Many geneticists and archaeologists have long surmised that human life began in Africa. Dr. Spencer Wells, one of a group of scientists studying the origin of human life, offers evidence and theories to support such a thesis in this PBS special. He claims that Africa was populated by only a few thousand people that some deserted their homeland in a conquest that has resulted in global domination.

It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform...

An Austrian director followed five successful African music and dance artists with his camera and fo...

Bill Nye and Ken Ham debate whether creation is a viable model of origins in today's modern scientif...

The use of embryonic stem cells has ignited fierce debate across the spiritual and political spectru...

In 1928, Lady Heath became the first person to fly solo from Cape Town to London. Eighty-five years ...

On an island where religion bars women from playing soccer, the Queens resist cultural norms and cha...

Tunahaki is the extraordinary story of nine gifted orphans who are acrobats. We follow their journey...

A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time...

Christof Wackernagel, best known in Germany as an actor and former member of the Red Army Faction ("...

With the most tech startups and venture capital per capita in the world, Israel has long been hailed...

An ethnographic film that documents the efforts of four !Kung men (also known as Ju/'hoansi or Bushm...

The 1977 discovery of RNA splicing by Dr. Phillip A. Sharp, Kentucky farm boy turned Nobel-prize win...

Deep down at the bottom of the ocean lies the mysterious world of the abyss. In the midst of boiling...

Filmed across three continents, this documentary shares the story of the founders of the Pan-African...

With more than 300 days a year, the sun dominates this country so much that it’s even shining from t...

This film speaks of archaic peoples, their customs and mores, in an attempt to make the last snapsho...

It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years ...

Every year, on the steppes of the Serengeti, the most spectacular migration of animals on our planet...
A study of the behavior of monkeys in the African jungle.