The events and coincidences that led to rapid advances in human intelligence 50,000 years ago.

Nova and National Geographic present exclusive access to an astounding discovery of ancient fossil human ancestors.

In the docudrama "Les Derniers Secrets de l'humanité" (The Last Secrets of Humanity), author and director Jacques Malaterre and...

The great follow-up to 'Walking with Dinosaurs' and 'Walking with Beasts', presented by Professor Robert Winston, explains the story of human...

This anti-smoking public information film has the kind of stylistic sheen often associated with 1980s British advertising, with its sci-fi setting,...

How did humanity's earliest ancestors evolve into one of the most successful species on Earth? An extraordinary journey tracing the footsteps of...

For Millions of years, our planet has been floating in space. Millions of creatures have lived on its surface. Many a quaint being was among them,...

A look at human origins in the very place of our origins, Africa's Rift Valley

Can the human brain really handle several tasks at once? The film exposes the myth about effective multitasking and takes a scientific look at its...

40, 000 years ago the steppes of Eurasia were home to our closest human relative, the Neanderthals. Recent genetic and archaeological discoveries...

Over 60,000 years ago, the first modern humans left their African homeland and entered Europe, then a bleak and inhospitable continent in the grip of...

The sequel to Smoker of the Future, in which he has a child who will take after his father.

He was said to be the "First European", our mystic brother out of the ice age. Nobody knows exactly, why he disappeared 30. 000 years ago. It was in...

The story of the evolution of life on Earth in animated form.

Echoes of the Ancients explores the lives, genes, and legacy of Neanderthals through science, archaeology, and art. It reveals the deep roots of...

A grim world is blessed by pre-modern man's wrath and it's beautiful light succumbs to the dark abyss of the neolithic reign of mother natures new...

After a harrowing plane crash, Special Forces officer James Belmont and his combat dog, Odin, find themselves stranded deep in the Alaskan...

A laid-off worker and his wife cross paths with a documentary filmmaker and her spouse and confront their hidden desires.

Medical courier Bryan unwittingly finds himself fighting for survival as one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos.

With his memories gone and his past a blur, ex-cop Steven Bay seeks treatment for his amnesia while working on an isolated farm. Instead, he's met...

A falsely accused war hero with nothing to lose leads police on an epic televised cross-country car chase, helped by members of his former Special...

War reduced Japan to zero, and Godzilla plunged it into minus. Two years have passed since then, and the country has faced agonizing struggles to...

In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history. When a high stakes operation goes fatally wrong, his veneered...

Given a year to live, frugal 40-year-old Yui finally lets herself spend: "buying" nightclub host Sena. What begins as a contract takes an unexpected...