Stonehenge: Decoded (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.

В 120-ти метрах от дикого побережья Южной Африки живёт животное, которое, как считалось, вымерло 65 миллионов лет назад. Целакант, известный в местных кругах под именем Гомбесса. Рыба-динозавр, живое ископаемое, которое остаётся единственным звеном, связывающим рыбу с наземными четвероногими: в её плавниках присутствуют зачатки костей рептилий и млекопитающих, а в огромной пасти найдено рудиментарное лёгкое. Команда подводных исследователей решила искупаться с Гомбессой и показать ее всему миру.

Дэвид Аттенборо приглашает зрителей в путешествие по Лондонскому музею естествознания. Когда двери музея заперты и наступает ночь, Аттенборо рассказывает о некоторых из самых увлекательных вымерших животных, которые оживают на его глазах: динозавры, фауна ледникового периода и гигантские рептилии.

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.

Пещера Шове на юге Франции закрыта для доступа общественности, поскольку более 300 рисунков с изображениями животных в ней являются древнейшими образцами пещерного искусства в мире и любое заметное изменение влажности воздуха в пещере может привести к их повреждению. Право доступа, лишь на несколько часов и с соблюдением ограничений, есть у немногих археологов. И только четыре члена съёмочной группы получили специальное разрешение от министра культуры Франции для съёмок этого фильма.

Действие фильма переносит зрителя на 200 миллионов лет назад, в знаменитый Юрский период, когда Земля была заселена великими и невероятно интересными существами: динозаврами. Вместе с создателями фильма, вы опуститесь на самое дно океана, где в это время обитали огромные морские гиганты, размеры которых невозможно представить современному человеку. Некоторые из них были исключительно травоядными, другие же представляли необычайных по ловкости и свирепости хищников. Но только время может показать, кто из них был более успешным в вопросе выживания.

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.