A guided tour of the history of numbers and how they’ve shaped the development of humankind is at the heart of this unique series. In five episodes that take us across time and around the world, we see how mathematics played an important role in ancient Egypt and Greece, early India, medieval Europe, and our own modern world. Computer graphics make mathematical formulae accessible and interesting, while dramatic reenactments of history pique the viewer’s interest.

Expert interviews and gripping reenactments combine to reveal the extraordinary life of Alexander th...

Throughout human history, there have been sinister desires driven by animalistic lust, and the Ancie...
Numbers brings to life the genius mathematicians who discovered new theories and frontiers in math i...

Bettany Hughes take viewers on armchair travels to explore household-name treasures and new finds fr...

The History of Sex is a 1999 five part documentary series by Jim Milio, Kelly McPherson, and Melissa...

This three-part special tells the story of the Egyptian empire from its beginning in 1560 B.C. to it...

Joanna Lumley goes on the trip of a lifetime - exploring the longest river in the world, the River N...

Television drama serial about various archaeological discoveries taking place in that country's hist...

People live in a world of cities; reflecting on ancient models of the city as a human phenomenon off...

For more than 2,000 years, a mathematical riddle has baffled the world’s greatest minds. It’s a prob...

John Romer recreates the glory and history of Byzantium. From the Hagia Sophia in present-day Istanb...

It's about human history, how humans shaped the world we live in. A history through cultures and civ...

A three-part British documentary film series about life in the Paleozoic, bringing to life extinct a...

Tutored by Aristotle, helpless witness to his father's assassination, and a brilliant, pioneering ta...

Documentary telling the stories of the men and women who travelled across Egypt to uncover the earli...

Around 5000 years ago, one of the largest and most powerful empires in history emerged on the Nile –...