Henry Louis Gates Jr. takes a look at the history of Africa, from the birth of humankind to the dawn of the 20th century. A breathtaking and personal journey through two hundred thousand years of history, from the origins, on the African continent, of art, writing and civilization itself, through the millennia in which Africa and Africans shaped not only their own rich civilizations, but also the wider world.

Enter the battlefields of Africa, arenas bathed in a history of savagery and blood, where big cats a...

Griff Rhys Jones explores Africa the unhurried way, as he takes to the continent’s railways to immer...

Secrets to Civilisation is a groundbreaking History series which explores the recent explosion in da...

Throughout the ages, civilisations have risen up and then disappeared. Ancient Apocalypse seeks to e...

A documentary series about the landscape, animals and people of Africa.

Experience the incredible and inspiring rebirth of an African wilderness through the eyes of an Emmy...

The Power of Myth is a television series originally broadcast on PBS in 1988 as Joseph Campbell and ...

The cameras follow the lives of human and animal families living in Kenya’s Samburu National Reserve...

A BBC/Animal Planet co-production, the three-part series focuses on the landscape and wildlife of th...

Africa is a land sculpted by time where animals have evolved complex weapons to arm them in the batt...

In this four-part BBC documentary, former Monty Python funnyman and renowned globe-trotter Michael P...

Explorer Levison Wood sets out on a nine-month walk along the length of the River Nile, visiting rai...

A mission to discover and re-create unexcavated worlds still hidden beneath the earth.

Takes viewers into the center of five animal families - lions, jackals, cheetahs, hyenas and meerkat...

Despite decades of research, many mysteries remain about the ancient Maya. Now, archaeologists are u...