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.

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

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

Mankind The Story of All of Us is an epic 12-hour television event about the greatest adventure of a...

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

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

Our cities, transformed a mere century ago to accommodate cars, now want to rid their streets of the...

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

Life evolved in the sea, in a water-bound planet, but landmasses slowly appeared and aquatic life be...

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

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

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

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

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

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

A cinematic experience bringing you the most amazing human stories in the world. Humans and wildlife...

The stories behind the most daring and audacious robberies in the world. Explore the planning, the p...

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

Hawking gives us the ultimate guide to the universe, a ripping yarn based on real science, spanning ...