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David Attenborough brings to life, in unprecedented detail, the last days of the dinosaurs. Palaeontologist Robert DePalma has made an incredible...

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Cast: David Attenborough

Thundering across the sky on elegant white wings, the Concorde was an instant legend. But behind the glamour of jet setting at Mach 2 were stunning...

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Cast: Damien Boisseau

Three million years ago, camels roamed through Greenland’s endless forests and our ancestors lived in the trees. It all came to an end with...

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The Vikings were the most ferocious warriors of the Middle Ages. Especially fearsome were the select few who wielded a formidable weapon: a light,...

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Cast: Jay O. Sanders

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

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Cast: Liam Neeson

When the U.S. trade embargo left Cuba isolated from medical resources, Cuban scientists were forced to get creative. Now they've developed lung...

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Cast: Keith David

Could scientists recreate Hollywood's Jurassic Park using 100-million-year-old dinosaur DNA? Director Steven Spielberg, author Michael Crichton,...

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Cast: Jeff Goldblum

In 1889, Gustave Eiffel decides to attempt the impossible for the Universal Exhibition in Paris: to build the tallest tower in the world. Before this...

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Cast: Geraldine James

Murdered more than 5,000 years ago, Otzi the Iceman is the oldest human mummy on Earth. Now, newly discovered evidence sheds light not only on this...

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Cast: Jay O. Sanders

Twenty-three bizarre looking vehicles line up at the starting gate of the DARPA Grand Challenge with one thing in common: there's nobody behind the...

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Cast: John Lithgow

Leonardo da Vinci was a Renaissance genius. Not only did he paint masterpieces of art, but he was an obsessive scientist and inventor, dreaming up...

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Cast: Jay O. Sanders

In July 2022, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope released its first images, looking further back in time than ever before to show our universe...

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Cast: Craig Sechler

Determined to understand the repeating patterns he was finding in nature, French mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot used an early form of computer...

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At the dawn of the Christian era, Petra, capital of the rich kingdom of the Nabataeans, bordering the deserts of Arabia, Syria and the Negev, was...

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Astrophysicists show how black holes might hold answers to how the universe evolved, leading to life on Earth and, ultimately, the human race.

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Cast: Janna Levin

The long running, often bitter scientific debate over the origin of birds and the evolution of flight.

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Cast: Peter Thomas

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

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Cast: Jay O. Sanders

For 25 centuries the Parthenon has been shot at, set on fire, rocked by earthquakes, looted for its sculptures, and disfigured by catastrophic...

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Cast: Alkibiadis Bakogianis

Predictions underlie nearly every aspect of our lives, from sports, politics, and medical decisions to the morning commute. With the explosion of...

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Cast: Jay O. Sanders

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