evolution

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 final episode reveals how our knowledge of cells has brought us to the brink of one of the most important moments in history. Scientists are close to repeating what has happened only once in four billion years – the creation of a new life form. (58 min)

In this last Secrets of the Stone Age episode, anthropologist Richard Rudgeley investigates the theory that, rather than making war, the Neanderthals and Homo sapiens made love. (46 min)

This second episode explores how scientists delved ever deeper into the world of the cell, seeking to reveal the magic ingredient that can spark a bundle of chemicals into life. Their discoveries have brought us to the brink of being able to create life for ourselves. (58 min)

Episode 9 of 10 from the BBC Life natural history documentary series explores the wide range of adaptation of plants on planet Earth. This one is in HD. (50 min)

The opening episode to this gorgeously photographed BBC documentary series explores some of the most extraordinary feeding, hunting, courting and parenting behavior from across the animal kingdom and around the globe. (58 min)

We hold a unique knowledge of time, realizing that it stretches deep into the past, and will continue into the future. How does this affect our sense of who we are? Michio Kaku hosts. (50 min)

Is the web changing the way we act, behave and interact? The final episode offers a glimpse into what the future might hold for all of us as a consequence of this ‘Virtual Revolution’. (49 min)

BBC narrator, Professor Jim Al-Khalili explores how Chaos Theory has slowly changed the paradigm in science and may answer the question that mankind has asked for millennia? This one is most excellent. (59 min, 6 segments)

This episode is all about primates and how the modern human gained the upper hand in nature’s game of survival. (45 min)

A Sci-Fi Channel documentary about the year 2012 on the human psyche. The film explores the subject through different beliefs of what will happen on December 31, 2012. Fun stuff. (95 min)