Stonehenge: Segredos Revelados (2008)

An entertaining documentary look at dinosaurs with Emmy Award-winning special effects, feature film clips and stills, commentary by leading paleontologists of the time, and an on camera as well as voice-over narrative by Christopher Reeve. Shot on location in Los Angeles and New York at the American Museum of Natural History

The Channeled Scablands in Washington state defied conventional explanations for their formation for decades. Little by little evidence mounted for an old theory that was rejected by the scientific establishment. It involved glaciers, volcanoes, a relatively minor river and a prodigious amount of water. Originally aired as an episide of NOVA.

Sir David Attenborough investigates the discovery of a lifetime: the giant skull of a prehistoric sea monster, known as a pliosaur – the Tyrannosaurus rex of the seas!

Neandertal man disappeared abruptly 30,000 years ago. Who was that "other" man and what is the most plausible hypothesis leading to his extinction? An investigation using all current knowledge available tries to answer these questions.

120 metres down off the wild coast of South Africa lives an animal once thought to have been extinct for 65 million years - the coelacanth, locally known as Gombessa. A dinosaur fish, a living fossil, that remains the only link connecting fish to terrestrial tetrapods: its fins contain the beginning of reptile and mammal leg bones! And what about the vestigial lung found at the back of its huge mouth?… A team of underwater explorers will film these legendary fish like never before.

Regular opening times do not apply as we accompany Sir David Attenborough on an after-hours journey around London’s Natural History Museum, one of his favourite haunts. The museum's various exhibits coming to life, including dinosaurs, reptiles and creatures from the ice age. Shot by the same 3D team that worked on Gravity, examines how the animals and creatures at the London museum once roamed the earth.

In 1872, in the cave of Cavillon in Monaco, archaeologist Émile Rivière (1835-1922) unearthed an apparently very old human skeleton, at least 24,000 years old, a discovery that changed the modern image of prehistoric men and women.

Man’s early ancestors set off to conquer the world, to explore the unknown, to adapt to every environment. And one day, to conquer fire – a discovery that made them invincible. They built shelters. They transformed their environment. But still this did not slake their thirst for more. They sought to fathom Nature’s mysteries. They invented stories to explain the inexplicable. Now, they are Men. Here, for the very first time in television history, is the saga of our origins, told through the story of one single family - an epic journey upon which the latest scientific discoveries shine an exciting new light.

If they are at the origin of cataclysms, volcanoes are also one of the essential engines of the evolution of species. With spectacular images, this documentary tells the life of one of them, 60 million years ago.

O célebre diretor Werner Herzog nos leva em uma aventura incrível, indo aos limites de um lugar extraordinário. Superando desafios consideráveis, Herzog registra a impressionante imponência da caverna de Chauvet, no sul da França, onde foram descobertas as mais antigas pinturas rupestres do mundo. Herzog revela um mundo subterrâneo de tirar o fôlego, incluindo obras de arte com 32 mil anos de idade com seu estilo inigualável. Com sua narração bem-humorada e envolvente, Herzog reflete sobre o nosso desejo primordial em se comunicar e representar o mundo à nossa volta, a evolução e o nosso lugar nela, e, em última instância, o que significa ser humano. Werner Herzog, de 68 anos, realizou um sonho de infância. Ainda menino, arranjou trabalho só para comprar um livro sobre pinturas rupestres, e o seu sonho virou realidade quando ele teve acesso à caverna de Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc, descoberta na década de 90, com mais de 400 pinturas rupestres.

Junte-se a Julie, uma imaginosa jovem, que viaja de um aquário do dias de hoje até o período Triássico, Jurássico e Cretáceo. Explore um incrível universo submarino habitado por criaturas enormes, incluindo o poderoso liopleurodonte, o elasmossauro de pescoço comprido e o gigantesco xonissauro, que governam os mares, antes dos dinossauros conquistarem a terra. Graças à ultrarrealista geração de imagens, veja a ciência ganhar vida de maneira única e impressionante. Mergulhe em uma era perdida, voltando 200 milhões no tempo, e prepare-se para ficar frente a frente com o T-Rex dos mares!

Cave paintings and lunar calendars exist in the caves and remains of prehistoric hunters studied recently. What if Prehistoric Man were clever enough to develop in depth scientific knowledge? As unlikely as it may seem, new data tend to prove that Prehistoric Man actually invented Astronomy!

Woolly Mammoth: Secrets from the Ice is a documentary presented by English anatomist Dr. Alice Roberts that reveals some of the secrets of one of the most widely known extinct animals ever. Humans have been transfixed by the Wolly Mammoth since the end of the last ice age when there were still herds of them roaming the continents of Asia and Europe. Despite many people knowing about the great Woolly Mammoth until recently very little was known about them despite ancient humans living along side them for so long; few documented accounts exist.

During the last Ice Age, millions of large animals roamed the Earth, from wooly mammoths and giant sloths to cave lions and saber-toothed cats. But as the temperatures rose, three-quarters of these species died out. What happened? Can environmental changes alone really explain this mass extinction, or did humans—who at this very time were beginning their conquest of the planet—play a key role? To find out, researchers around the world are hunting and studying fossils in their search for answers to solve the mystery of the Ice Age giants.

A documentary examining what the Tyrannosaurus Rex was really like - both appearance and behaviour - using the recent palaeontological and zoological research.

First Stop...the Tar Pits, as Gary and Eric investigate the incredible creatures that came after the dinosaurs, from giant ground sloths to savage saber-tooths. It's a trip back to the age of monstrous mammals in this wild and whimsical blast into tour prehistoric past.