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.

Shortly after his death in 2008, Maldoror made this film about her longtime friend and collaborator,...

A New Yorker journeys to the jungle in the Darien Gap of Panama to reconnect with an indigenous trib...

If we compare ourselves with our genetically closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, we have few ...

David and Judith MacDougall are exploring the marriage rituals and roles of Turkana women in this et...

The film interweaves the personal accounts of polio survivors with the story of an ardent crusader w...
Dr George McGavin and Dr Zoe Laughlin set up base camp at one of the UK's biggest sewage works to in...

Successful model Samira Hashi makes an emotional return to Somalia, one of the most dangerous places...

It shows the Neretva river from its source to the shores of the Adriatic Sea. The document also capt...

Cruel Famine Continent documents the Great Sahelian drought in West Africa and its effect on the peo...

When the U.S. trade embargo left Cuba isolated from medical resources, Cuban scientists were forced ...

“There was excitement in the air,” says Donga, now in his late twenties, describing his feelings whe...

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

Bill Nye and Ken Ham debate whether creation is a viable model of origins in today's modern scientif...

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

Travel alongside the astronauts as they deploy and repair the Hubble Space Telescope, soar above Ven...

This film shows how far we have come since the cold-war days of the 50s and 60s. Back then the Russi...