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.

The film documents modern slave trade through a number of African countries, under dictatorship rule...

Filmmaker Karim Aïnouz decides to take a boat, cross the Mediterranean, and embark on his first jour...

In 1973 Yorkshire public television made a short film of the Nobel laureate while he was there. The ...

Explore an extraordinary region where water and land life intermingle six months out of the year.

In a studio setting, Stephen Hawking, Arthur C. Clarke and Carl Sagan (who joins them via satellite)...

What powers some of the brightest attractions at Disney's theme parks? Electricity! From lighting th...

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

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

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

Three million years ago, camels roamed through Greenland’s endless forests and our ancestors lived i...

The documentary tells two very different human fates in the 1920s Soviet Union. Nikolai Vavilov was ...

A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwi...

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

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