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 film that takes us on a scientific and spiritual journey where we discover that by cha...

Thomas Sankara, former president of Burkina Faso, was known as "the African Che", and became famous ...

What does the great beyond hold? Is there extraterrestrial life on other planets? Join Timothy Ferri...

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...
From F.Z. Maguire catalogue: The background of this picture is the Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton,...

This uneven and uninspired documentary of Africa is a collection from various stock footage. Female ...

It’s a world we don’t truly know—yet it feels oddly familiar. Deep canyons and jagged crevices carve...

Follow astronaut Scott Kelly's 12-month mission on the International Space Station, from launch to l...

Earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, and extreme weather. Has Earth always been this way? Feat...

Professor Alice Roberts joins entomologist Tim Cockerill in a house filled with hundreds of spiders ...

Scientists Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss travel the globe promoting a scientific worldview and...

Using spectacular graphics based on the latest science and stories of remarkable people around the w...

Animals Are Beautiful People (also called Beautiful People) is a 1974 South African nature documenta...
This short documentary presents an early scientific visualization of X-ray technology, documenting t...

Music by Prudence tells a self-empowering story of one young woman's struggle who, together with her...

It is not easy to be an albino in Tanzania. White skin is distinguishable and it burns quickly under...

Ben Steele’s ORPHANS OF EBOLA follows Abu, a 12-year-old boy from a Sierra Leone village, who loses ...

Six young women programmed the world's first all-electronic programmable computer, ENIAC, as part of...

A psychedelic documentary of the body electric, with music by Pink Floyd. The film was directed and ...