According to recent science the Neanderthals are not the knuckle-dragging apemen of popular imagination. In fact they are our distant ancestors. About 2% of the DNA of most people is of Neanderthal origin—and it continues to affect us today. Ella Al-Shamahi enlists the skills of Andy Serkis, the master of performance capture, and a group of experts to investigate Neanderthals.

Professor Robert Winston meets Lucy, the first upright ape, and follows her ancestors on the three-m...

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Professor Alice Roberts travels across Greece and thousands of years back to our collective past, tr...

Jonathan Roberge dives into the world of Montréal crime during the 1957-1977 period, when the city s...

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Survivors of Soviet totalitarianism warn that “soft totalitarianism” is emerging in the U.S. Identit...

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Women write art history – but in turn are systematically ignored by it. LOST WOMEN ART tells the sto...

Experience the wonders of our world like never before in this epic series from Jon Favreau and the p...

The story of how women have fought their way into the world of sport, an arena jealously guarded by ...

Journalist and writer Graham Hancock travels the globe hunting for evidence of mysterious, lost civi...

A five-part series that features the latest research exploring how early humans evolved. See how the...

In this adaptation of the award-winning podcast, Slow Burn’s Leon Neyfakh excavates the strange subp...

A documentary which explores the remarkable parallels between the careers of Adolf Hitler and Winsto...

Combining fact and informed speculation with cutting-edge computer graphics and animatronics effects...

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

Nearly 1,000 years ago, the Vikings left Scandinavia and settled across Europe - giving their name t...