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This episode charts the story of how scientists came to explain the beauty and diversity of life on earth, and reveal how its evolution is connected to the long and violent history of our planet. (58 min)

This second episode looks at religions in the Abrahamic tradition. Judaism, Christianity and Islam are examined in order to understand the ideas about God they share and the issues that divide them. (58 min)

BBC explores the life of marine invertebrates, the earliest life forms on earth from a billion years ago. Their descendants still thrive, sharing the sea with fish but outnumbering them 10 to 1. (59 min)

BBC docu-drama about the life of Jean-François Champollion continues as he is determined to travel to Egypt to prove his theory but poor and jobless he is reduced to buying up whatever scraps of papyrus he can find and this obsession alienates his wife. (46 min)

BBC docu-drama about the life of Jean-François Champollion who becomes obsessed with deciphering hieroglyphs as a means to telling the age of the world and revenging France against the British who had confiscated the Rosetta Stone in 1801. (46 min)

This first episode examines the divergence between religions that worship a range of deities and those that represent strict monotheism. (58 min)

In this episode, BBC’s Michael Mosley demonstrates how society is built on our search to find the answer to what makes up everything in the material world. (58 min)

The sixth episode to this gorgeously photographed BBC documentary series explores some of the most extraordinary feeding, hunting, courting and parenting behavior of insects. (59 min)

BBC dramatizes the life and adventures of Giovanni Belzoni, an eccentric English circus strongman who became one of the greatest and certainly the most colorful explorers of ancient Egyptian ruins and artifacts. (58 min)

The adventures of Giovanni Belzoni continue with the transformation of the eccentric English adventurer into a scholar of ancient Egyptian ruins and artifacts. (58 min)

In this BBC award winning adventure Micheal Wood embarks on a 2000 mile journey in the foot steps of Alexander’s triumphal march from Greece to India. The third episode picks up in Kabul, Afghanistan. (48 min)