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.

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

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.

The Earth’s continents are instantly recognizable. These iconic landmasses seem permanent and uncha...

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

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

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

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

Africa's spectacular biodiversity extends across a vast, numerous network of ecosystems. Explore the...

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...

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

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

This series explores the facts and investigates the truth behind the British Redcoat Army's campaign...

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