Documentary films & series

Documentaries

Our analyses and companions to the great documentaries on prehistory and antiquity: what science actually says, with sources.

Palaeoanthropology

Documentary · Palaeoanthropology

How Sapiens conquered the world — Jean-Jacques Hublin's six masterclasses

Between January and February 2026, Jean-Jacques Hublin, professor at the Collège de France, delivered six lectures on the fundamental question: how and why did <em>Homo sapiens</em> replace all other human species? Available in full on YouTube, they are an exceptional resource for understanding our own evolutionary history.

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Mesolithic

Documentary · Mesolithic

Doggerland, the land drowned beneath the North Sea

Where the North Sea now lies, hunter-gatherers lived 10,000 years ago. Doggerland, a vast plain linking Britain to the continent, was slowly drowned, then swept by a tsunami.

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