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.
"Africa Light" - as white local citizens call Namibia. The name suggests romance, the beauty of natu...

An African narrator tells the story of earth history, the birth of the universe and evolution of lif...

This documentary outlines the unique properties and latest studies of "Physarum Polycephalum", also ...

A talented group of orphaned children in Swaziland create a fictional heroine and send her on a dang...
Documentary film about the Czechoslovak natural science group's expedition to Iceland in June 1948.

America has long been called a Christian nation. In fact, over 70% of adults in America identify th...

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

In Uganda, AIDS-infected mothers have begun writing what they call Memory Books for their children. ...

These are the first images shot in the ALN maquis, camera in hand, at the end of 1956 and in 1957. T...

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

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...

Join critically-acclaimed author and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and world-renowned theor...

The Dream Is Alive takes you into space alongside the astronauts on the space shuttle. Share with th...

An award-winning feature-length creative documentary exploring the extraordinary world of the plasmo...

Woolly Mammoth: Secrets from the Ice is a documentary presented by English anatomist Dr. Alice Rober...

A breathtaking adventure across five continents and through time to reveal nature's most vital secre...