The Genius of Charles Darwin

David Attenborough's Natural Curiosities

2013 · ★ 7.3

Sir David shines the spotlight on some of nature’s evolutionary anomalies and reveals how these curious animals continue to baffle and fascinate.

Kingdom of Plants

2012 · ★ 7.8

Sir David discovers a microscopic world that’s invisible to the naked eye, where insects feed and breed, where flowers fluoresce and where plants communicate with each other and with animals using scent and sound.

Cosmos: A Personal Voyage

1980 · ★ 8.6

Carl Sagan covers a wide range of scientific subjects, including the origin of life and a perspective of our place in the universe.

Jimmy Doherty in Darwin's Garden

2009 · ★ 7

Charles Darwin came up with some ingenious experiments to prove his theory of evolution. Jimmy Doherty attempts to recreate some of these investigations.

Darwin's Dangerous Idea

2009 · ★ 8

Andrew Marr explores how Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection has taken on a life of its own far beyond the world of science.

What Darwin Didn't Know

What Darwin Didn't Know is a documentary show on BBC Four presented by Armand Marie Leroi which charts the progress in the field of Evolutionary Theory since the original publication of 'On the Origin of Species' in 1859.

David Attenborough's Rise of Animals: Triumph of the Vertebrates

2013 · ★ 8.1

David Attenborough embarks on a remarkable 500 million-year journey revealing the extraordinary group of animals that dominate our world, and how their evolution defines our human bodies.

Origins, a tale of light

2025 · ★ 8

Since the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago, light has sculpted the cosmos. It traverses the void, interacts with matter, and dances with shadows. It multiplies and proliferates, offering the world ever more complex and luminous structures. If it could speak, what would it tell us?

The Great Dyings

2023 · ★ 10

Life is a fragile thing. It changes and adapts so specifically to survive in the environment it's placed in. This ability to adapt is called evolution, and it's the reason that life has endured for the past few billion years. But evolution takes a long time, so when environments change too quickly for the inhabitants to keep up, the result is a drop in population or at the worst… extinction. And sometimes these changes can be so big that they affect the entire globe. Leading to some of the most catastrophic events in our planet’s history… mass extinctions. Content creator Angel of Death explores the five mass extinctions and the effects they had on life on earth in this five part miniseries.

First Peoples

2015 · ★ 8

A five-part series that features the latest research exploring how early humans evolved. See how the mixing of prehistoric human genes led the way for our species to survive and thrive around the globe. Archaeology, genetics and anthropology cast new light on 200,000 years of history, detailing how early humans became dominant.

Alice Roberts: Our Hospital Through Time

2026

Unprecedented access to the renowned hospital's modern wards and private archive.

Ape-Man: Adventures in Human Evolution

2000 · ★ 10

Series exploring the origins of human life, from African beginnings to Ice Age artists.