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.

In 1928, Lady Heath became the first person to fly solo from Cape Town to London. Eighty-five years ...

A breathtaking adventure across five continents and through time to reveal nature's most vital secre...

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

Tales from Arab Detroit is a video documentary offering a fascinating glimpse into the lives and str...

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

Between 1983 and 1987, Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso and the home city of FESPACO, one of...
A study of the behavior of monkeys in the African jungle.

On April 25, 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick published their groundbreaking discovery of the do...

Most people fully accept paranormal and pseudoscientific claims without critique as they are promote...

In The Womb is a 2005 National Geographic Channel documentary that focus on studying and showing the...

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

In 1858 Charles Darwin struggles to publish one of the most controversial scientific theories ever c...

William Shatner presents a light-hearted look at how the "Star Trek" TV series have influenced and i...

The story of three Turkish men. They all grew up in Switzerland and all got deported after various c...

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

Documentary footage from various sources, set to music. Showing the whole of human life, from birth ...