The history of our modern Indo-Arabic numeral system begins in Mesopotamia, leads through India to the Arab world – and from there around the...

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

Blood of the Vikings was a 5 part 2001 BBC Television documentary series that traced the legacy of the Vikings in the British Isles through a...

Hosted by Jason Silva, Origins: The Journey of Humankind rewinds all the way back to the beginning and traces the innovations that made us modern.

This extraordinary series is a sweeping account of the rise of Earth’s continents. They are the product of a grand waltz of plate tectonics and...

Investigative genetic genealogist CeCe Moore uses her unique research skills to transform the face of crime solving. By working with police...

Documentary series about famous anthropologists.

Explore the innovative and highly flexible ways that snakes survive in the extreme environments of Australia and Africa. Examine the longest,...

Exploring the world of deep-sea killers, revealing mysterious creatures with amazing CGI.

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...

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

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

Experience the wonders of our world like never before in this epic series from Jon Favreau and the producers of Planet Earth. Travel back 66 million...

Noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has been helping people discover long-lost relatives hidden for generations within the branches of...

TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.

Physicist and professor Brian Cox travels across the globe to uncover the secrets of the most extraordinary phenomenon in the universe: life.

The history of the sport of baseball in America, told through archival photos, film footage, and the words of those who contributed to the game in...

An immersive, action-packed and discovery-led series following International teams of Egyptologists as they unearth the world's richest seam of...

Life's extraordinary journey to conquer, adapt and survive on Earth across billions of years comes alive in this groundbreaking nature docuseries.

An insider's look at the engineering and scientific miracles behind the things that form the modern world.

The story of life, from the first primitive cells to the plants and animals that now live around us.

Don Wildman unearths relics from the world's greatest institutions to reveal secrets from the past. He examines each artifact to illuminate history's...