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.
A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwi...
How African artists have spread African culture all over the world, especially music, since the hars...
A poetic tribute to writer, poet and environmental activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa, who was executed alongsi...
In July 1860, the schooner Clotilda slipped quietly into the dark waters of Mobile, Ala., holding 11...
Edeltraut Hertel - a midwife caught between two worlds. She has been working as a midwife in a small...
Following the 1884–85 Berlin Conference resolution on the partition of Africa, the Portuguese army u...
The plains of Africa have always been a hotbed of predator action, but lurking in its rivers is perh...
This series also covers the essential concepts of astronomy: gravity, the light spectrum, Earth's ma...
This in-depth look into the powerhouse industries of big-game hunting, breeding and wildlife conserv...
When Harvard PhD student Jennifer Brea is struck down at 28 by a fever that leaves her bedridden, do...
Christof Wackernagel, best known in Germany as an actor and former member of the Red Army Faction ("...
A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time...
In The Womb is a 2005 National Geographic Channel documentary that focus on studying and showing the...
A Luta Continua explains the military struggle of the Liberation Front of Mozambique (FRELIMO) again...
When the U.S. trade embargo left Cuba isolated from medical resources, Cuban scientists were forced ...
The Dream Is Alive takes you into space alongside the astronauts on the space shuttle. Share with th...
This film is the result of more than two years of work tracking down archive material and witnesses ...
It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform...