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.

Thousands of terracotta warriors guarded the first Chinese emperor's tomb. This is their story, told...

Archaeologist Raksha Dave and historian Dan Snow return to Pompeii to gain special access to a varie...

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

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...

More than 2.000 years ago, Narbonne in today's Département Aude was the capital of a huge Roman prov...

Filmed in IMAX, a young Mayan boy who lives close to the ruins becomes acquainted with an archaeolog...

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

Explores the Pyramids of Giza as Egyptologists try to unravel the mysteries and decipher the clues b...

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...
A documentary about archaeology, which, based on traces and finds hidden underground, creates a pict...

In 1921, in the Danish town of Egtved, on the Jutland peninsula, was discovered one of the most impo...

This cinematic journey into the waters off East Africa chronicles the story behind artist Damien Hir...

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