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Ancient Apocalypse
Date: 2001 - Certificate: UC
Content: 1 x 50 mins
Traditionally, the disappearance of certain ancient civilisations has been left to the theologians and historians to explain.
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Before Babel
Horizon
Date: 1992 - Certificate: UC
Content: 1 x 50 mins
Is it possible that all human languages share a common ancestor? Since William Jones discovered the link between English and Sanskrit in 1783, the existence of a group of languages known as Indo-European has been established.
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Black Pharaohs, The
Date: 2004 - Certificate: UC
Content: 1 x 50 mins
Could a set of hieroglyphs be about to change the face of Ancient Egypt for ever? Doctor Viv Davies claims that this recent discovery proves that in 800 BC, Egypt was under the rule of 'black Pharaohs' from neighbouring Nubia.
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Blood and Flowers - In Search of the Aztecs
Date: 2000 - Certificate: UC
Content: 1 x 50 mins
Originating from a tribe of wanderers in the area we now know as Mexico, the Aztecs were the dominant political power in Central America until the Spanish Conquest.
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Butchers of Boxgrove
Horizon
Date: 1995 - Certificate: UC
Content: 1 x 50 mins
In 1993, a mysterious fossil was unearthed from a Sussex gravel pit. It turned out to be the shin of a half-million year old human: 'Boxgrove Man'.
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Caterpillar Moon, A
Under the Sun
Date: 1996 - Certificate: UC
Content: 1 x 50 mins
In the rainforest of Central Africa live the Aka pygmies, a tribe of traditional hunter-gatherers virtually untouched by the modern world.
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Charles Darwin & The Tree of Life
Talking about evolution
Date: 2009 - Certificate: UC
Content: 1 x 50 minutes
“Nothing in the natural world makes sense – except when seen in the light of evolution.”
Darwin’s theory of evolution was based upon the premise that life has evolved over millions of years by natural selection.
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China's Child
Horizon
Date: 1983 - Certificate: UC
Content: 1 x 50 mins
In 1980 the Chinese government announced that, 'because of the coming over-population crisis each couple will, from henceforth, only be allowed a single child.
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Cradle of Life, The
Date: 2003 - Certificate: UC
Content: 1 x 60 minutes
Did Darwin have the wrong end of the evolutionary stick? He believed our living world came as a result of random chemical reactions in a primordial soup.
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Day We Learned To Think, The
Horizon
Date: 2004 - Certificate: UC
Content: 1 x 50 mins
The conventional view has always been that the single greatest difference between us and the most intelligent animals such as was that we had learned to communicate abstract concepts and developed language.
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