Documentary films & series
Our analyses and companions to the great documentaries on prehistory and antiquity: what science actually says, with sources.
At Kromdraai in South Africa, palaeoanthropologist Jose Braga unearthed two children aged 2.5 million years side by side: one Homo, one Paranthropus. This award-winning documentary follows the scientific investigation at the heart of the Cradle of Humankind.
Watch the documentary →A team of palaeontologists ventures into the Namibian Kalahari for Mission HON (Human Origins in Namibia), searching for limestone caves sealed for 3 to 4 million years. Following in the footsteps of Little Foot and the Australopithecines of South Africa, they develop a novel calcite-detection method to unlock the buried secrets of humanity's origins.
Watch the documentary →In the Dampier Archipelago of Western Australia, close to one million petroglyphs engraved over 50,000 years form the world's largest ensemble of engraved rock art. This SLICE HISTOIRE documentary explores this unique Aboriginal heritage and the threat posed by adjacent industrial installations.
Watch the documentary →In Brazil, within 25,000-year-old layers at Serra da Capivara, archaeologist Eric Boeda examines strange quartzite pebbles. Dating, microscopic analysis and experimental archaeology reveal tools that challenge the chronology of the peopling of the Americas.
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