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.

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

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

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

Who was Homer, and what is the meaning of The Odyssey? In this documentary we follow the footsteps o...

Uncover the secrets of the most mysterious and powerful knightly order of the Middle Ages – the Knig...
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