Tales from the Jungle
โ 5 ยท 2007 ยท Documentary
Documentary series about famous anthropologists.
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2015 ยท โ 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.
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0 to 9 : The Secret History of Numbers
2025 ยท โ 8
The history of our modern Indo-Arabic numeral system begins in Mesopotamia, leads through India to the Arab world โ and from there around the globe. This three-part series explores how the "Arabic numerals" began their triumphant march and the special role that zero played in this process. From its beginnings to modern computer science โ today, numbers are the universal language of the world.
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Ancient Apocalypse
2001 ยท โ 7.2
Throughout the ages, civilisations have risen up and then disappeared. Ancient Apocalypse seeks to explain how human achievements were destroyed by the forces of nature.
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Is It True That...?
2025
Did democracy actually originate in Greece? Was the plague the worst epidemic of all time? And did we really work harder in the past than we do today? Is it true that ...? questions what we think we know and takes another look at history.
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Ring of Fire: An Indonesian Odyssey
1988 ยท โ 8
The Ring of Fire: An Indonesian Odyssey is a series of five documentary films following the decade-long Wanderjahr of the filmmaker/sibling partnership Lorne and Lawrence Blair.
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The Incredible Human Journey
2009 ยท โ 7.7
There are seven billion humans on Earth, spread across the whole planet. Scientific evidence suggests that most of us can trace our origins to one tiny group of people who left Africa around 70,000 years ago. In this five-part series, Dr Alice Roberts follows the archaeological and genetic footprints of our ancient ancestors to find out how their journeys transformed our species into the humans we are today, and how Homo Sapiens came to dominate the planet.
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Legendary Cities
2014 ยท โ 8
Embark in a journey through some of the most beautiful cities in the world in this documentary series. Each episode features a new city and explores the many things that make it the legendary place it is today.
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2025 ยท โ 6.2
Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals humanity's incredible story across 300,000 years of human evolution โ and how the story is stranger and more surprising than ever imagined.
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First Civilizations
2018 ยท โ 7.7
Using the latest in archaeology, anthropology and genetics, this series tells the story of where the modern world began. Incorporating studies of artifacts, renowned sites of archaeological interest and interviews with leading experts, it moves around the geographic zones of the world, exploring how and why civilization first sparked into life.
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Journeys from the Centre of the Earth
2004 ยท โ 10
Geologist Dr Iain Stewart presents a series showing how the rocks beneath our feet have shaped the human history of the Mediterranean.
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Prehistoric Autopsy
2012 ยท โ 8.7
A journey into our evolutionary past, piecing together the bodies of our prehistoric family.
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