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...
The cutting edge group known as transhumanists see a beautiful future brought about by artificial in...
A documentary about archaeology, which, based on traces and finds hidden underground, creates a pict...
A slide about the importance of accidental archaeological finds for the development of archaeologica...

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

Documentary following a team of technicians in Italy as they reconstruct a number of historic Middle...

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

49,000 year old Neanderthal bones have been discovered by chance in a remote, mountainous region of ...

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

Why did the Roman Empire, which dominated Europe and the Mediterranean for five centuries, inexorabl...

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

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

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