History Of Mankind Movies

This documentary by Theo Kamecke from 1970 gives an indepth and profound look at the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. NASA footage is interspersed with...

Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single...

This documentary delves into the mysteries surrounding the Neanderthals and what their fossil record tells us about their lives and disappearance.

An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have progressed so much in such a short time through war...

A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages.

It happened more or less by accident; the people who made it happen were amateurs; and for the most part they still are. From his own Silicon Valley...

Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.

50 years after the death of General De Gaulle, this film retraces his life, from his birth in 1890 to his burial at Colombey-Les-Deux-Eglises in 1970.

The story of America's first astronauts, known as the Mercury 7, told through archival news & radio reports, newly transferred & previously unheard...

An epic sci-fi drama exploring the history of the world and the nature of life, love, hope, and connection, doing so by focusing on three...

One of the most significant cases in European archaeology is the grave of the shaman woman of Bad Dürrenberg, a key finding of the last...

Why did the Roman Empire, which dominated Europe and the Mediterranean for five centuries, inexorably weaken until it disappeared? Archaeologists,...

Beginning with Guernica and the Chinese cities of Chongqing and Shanghai in 1937 and ending with the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August...

The documentary tells the exciting story of the beginnings of surgery through to its specialization - a fascinating journey through time from the...

How did humanity's earliest ancestors evolve into one of the most successful species on Earth? An extraordinary journey tracing the footsteps of...

The first American space station Skylab is found in pieces scattered in Western Australia. Putting these pieces back together and re-tracing the...

Considered the finest example of Byzantine architecture in the world, Hagia Sophia was constructed on a scale unprecedented in human history. Built...

A look back at "La Cage aux Folles", which ran non-stop for five years, from February 1973, on the stage of the Théâtre du Palais Royal...