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.

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 ...

The search to prove that surfing is an African sport by traveling to the remote island nation of Sao...

During the Japanese occupation period, Koreans were forced to deport or drafted to work in other cou...

William Shatner sits down with scientists, innovators and celebrities to discuss how the optimism of...

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

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

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

Travel across Vietnam on a breathtaking cultural and historical journey. Uncover ancient Chinese inf...
"Africa Light" - as white local citizens call Namibia. The name suggests romance, the beauty of natu...

Kids from Brooklyn, NY housing projects try to change the world when they are paired with Sierra Leo...

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

Featuring Michael Pollan and based on his best-selling book, this special takes viewers on an explor...

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

Through animation, maps of the same scale and projection are combined to show relationships between ...

A documentary film that takes us on a scientific and spiritual journey where we discover that by cha...
Documentary film about the Czechoslovak natural science group's expedition to Iceland in June 1948.