Around four million years ago, ape-like creatures discovered the advantages of walking upright. The starting point of a fascinating journey that, with many dead ends and setbacks, leads to modern man, who populates the whole world as a successful model of evolution. The impressive computer animations bring viewers closer to prehistoric and early man than ever before. The film also accompanies the world-renowned paleoanthropologist Friedemann Schrenk from the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt to hotspots of human history between South Africa and Europe. The film shows documentary scenes from the hotspots of human history as well as spectacular computer animations.

The film delves into the work processes of an archaeological team from the Aranzadi Science Society ...

This short documentary depicts the search, discovery and authentication of the only known Norse sett...

Drama-led documentary following the life of Signe, an orphaned Chief's daughter, who, driven by reve...

5000 years ago the ancient Elamites established a glorious civilization that lasted about three mill...

Rascar Capac, the sinister creature featured on Hergé's album The Seven Crystal Balls (1948), has le...

Thousands of terracotta warriors guarded the first Chinese emperor's tomb. This is their story, told...
A documentary about archaeology, which, based on traces and finds hidden underground, creates a pict...

Documentary following the 1955–1956 Norwegian Archaeological Expedition's investigations of Polynesi...

What is true and what is false in the hideous stories spread about the controversial figure of the R...

Shot in Southern England over the course of six weeks by a crew of three American filmmakers, Circle...

This cinematic journey into the waters off East Africa chronicles the story behind artist Damien Hir...
Documentary that discovers all the secrets of mummification in the Canary Islands thanks to pioneeri...

NOVA's groundbreaking investigation explores how new discoveries are transforming views of our earli...

Two hundred and fifty thousand years ago, the first direct representative of our species appeared on...

As part of a high-tech forensic probe into the demise of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun, scientists us...

This series incorporates the latest animated 3D films to explore recent discoveries about human hist...

A film on the "SAPPHIRE", the oldest identified wreck in Canadian waters. Parks Canada's underwater ...