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.

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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