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 about the 1999 discovery of a Mastodon skeleton in a Hyde Park backyard.

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A talented group of orphaned children in Swaziland create a fictional heroine and send her on a dang...

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Documentary film about the Czechoslovak natural science group's expedition to Iceland in June 1948.

Edeltraut Hertel - a midwife caught between two worlds. She has been working as a midwife in a small...

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

In a fascinating geopolitical drama, Danish filmmaker Mik-Meyer closely follows Ravalomanana as he a...

BP documentary film exploring the natural beauty of oil under the microscope, and through a variety ...

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

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

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