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Secrets of the Lost Empire: Easter Island
This is third in a special five-part series presented by NOVA. It originally aired back in February of 2000. Throughout the series a crew from NOVA strive to discover the forgotten secrets of the long-forgotten engineers and architects. 55 minutes long.
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Ancient Refuge in the Holy Land
This documentary has one modest goal: to seriously disrupt the beliefs of Jews, Christians, and Muslims. They go about digging in Jerusalem and excavating new proof from the time of Jesus that could challenge the very concepts of the bible – and the very bible, itself.
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Planet of the Apemen: Battle for Earth
In the not-too-distant past, humans shared this planet with other species of hominid. This series tells how, against all the odds, Homo sapiens survived.
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Mystery of the Megavolcano
Scientists confront on an astounding possibility: that a single ancient cataclysmic volcanic eruption 75,000 years ago blasted ash and rock across an entire continent, spewing so much sulfuric acid into the atmosphere that Earth was plunged into a global disaster.
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Ice World
Join a small group of ancient Europeans 24.000 years ago as they teeter on the brink of annihilation, struggling with the most extreme living conditions anyone has ever faced.
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A History of Ancient Britain
Neil Oliver tells the epic story of how Britain and its people came to be over thousands of years of ancient history – the beginnings of our world forged in ice, stone, and bronze.
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Did Cooking Make Us Human?
Horizon examines the evidence that our ancestors’ changing diet and their mastery of fire prompted anatomical and neurological changes that resulted in taking us out of the trees and into the kitchen.
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Neanderthal
Europe, eighty thousand years ago, for countless generations the kingdom of a remarkable and mysterious creature, the Neanderthal. A species of human in many ways so similar to us, and yet also so very different.
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Lost Tribe of Palau
Berger, a paleoanthropologist responsible for many ground-breaking discoveries about early man, sets off to investigate a possible discovery of fossilised human remains in Palau.
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The Ape That Took Over The World
The great mystery of our evolution is how an ape could have evolved into the extraordinary creature that is a human being. There has never been another animal like us on the planet, yet ten million years ago there was no sign that humans would take over the world.
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Stories of the Stone Age
Based on extensive research, Stories from the Stone Age takes us on a journey where we get to live alongside our ancestors as they cross between the Old and the New Worlds and into Civilisation. The series utilises detailed re-enactments and short interviews with key archaeological experts.
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Guns, Germs and Steel
Guns, Germs and Steel traces humanity’s journey over the last 13,000 years – from the dawn of farming at the end of the last Ice Age to the realities of life in the twenty-first century. Inspired by a question put to him on the island of Papua New Guinea more than thirty years ago, Diamond embarks on a world-wide quest to understand the roots of global inequality.
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