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.

Dan Snow uncovers the lost Vikings in America with Dr Sarah Parcak. As Sarah searches for Vikings ac...

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Up to one million gladiators are thought to have died in arenas across the Roman Empire. And, althou...

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Explores the latest archaeology and science on one of history's most enduring mysteries - did the Tr...

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The end of the Franco-Prussian war (1870-71) saw the birth of the panoramas of war, huge circular pa...

A documentary made by History Time on YouTube. Written, researched and produced by Pete Kelly.
In 1970 a storm uncovers an ancient whaling village called Ozette which had been buried some 500 yea...

What killed King Tutankhamun? Ever since his spectacular tomb was discovered, the boy king has been ...

In this hour-long documentary, Oxford academic Janina Ramirez tours the country in search of Anglo-S...