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.
A series of eight episodes documenting 250.000 years of history. Charles Groenhuijsen takes us along...
Explores the Third Reich from a contemporary perspective to investigate how the Nazis managed to con...
In the turbulent formative centuries of early Europe, power-hungry family dynasties fought for domin...
Life evolved in the sea, in a water-bound planet, but landmasses slowly appeared and aquatic life be...
Nearly 1,000 years ago, the Vikings left Scandinavia and settled across Europe - giving their name t...
Combining fact and informed speculation with cutting-edge computer graphics and animatronics effects...
This documentary series delves into the unseen histories of the 2000s decade, revealing dark secrets...
An epic yarn spanning most of the 18th century, the series follows Franklin's career from humble beg...
Dr Xand van Tulleken and archaeologist Raksha Dave tell the brutal story of one of the most bloody a...
Professor Robert Winston meets Lucy, the first upright ape, and follows her ancestors on the three-m...
A lecture series about the basic problems of flight, explained by visual presentation of flow experi...
This new series follows International teams of archaeologists on the front line, as they embark on a...
A multimedia course for secondary school and college teachers that examined global patterns through ...
A documentary which explores the remarkable parallels between the careers of Adolf Hitler and Winsto...
Meet the bizarre, amazing and breathtaking creatures and landscapes of a vibrant lost world; and dis...
For centuries, explorers have searched for the Bible’s most sacred religious artefacts. One of the m...
Our cities, transformed a mere century ago to accommodate cars, now want to rid their streets of the...