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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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...

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

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 ...

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

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...

Jesus of Nazareth, the founding figure of Christianity, is also an exceptional character in the Kora...

Despite decades of research, many mysteries remain about the ancient Maya. Now, archaeologists are u...
A group of young people live and work on a replica of a prehistoric Iron Age settlement at a secret ...
A lecture series about the basic problems of flight, explained by visual presentation of flow experi...

A documentary series about heroines of the II World War. Stories told from the perspective of the ch...