
Ancient Worlds
Exploring the Roman Republic from its mythical beginning to violent end.

Exploring the Roman Republic from its mythical beginning to violent end.

Tracing the career of Alexander the Great from Greece to Pakistan.

Art, philosophy and science blossom while political discord, social injustice and war erupt.

Winners and losers from the Bronze Age collapse; emergence of the Iron Age.

Exploring the origins of civilization, beginning in Uruk in southern Iraq through Greece.

David Attenborough investigates the discovery of a giant dinosaur find in Argentina.

Historian Dan Snow tells the dramatic story of the life, death and rediscovery of Tutankhamun.

A discovery of a fracture in Tutankhamun's skeleton, signalling the injury that led to his death.

The remains of Tutankhamun's parents.

Mammoths meet danger crossing the Alps, but the biggest dangers are awaiting their return.

Revealing the exotic, oversized creatures that inhabited South America one million years ago.

The beginnings of mankind can be traced back 3.2 million years to Ethiopia.

Going back 25 million years to the time of the indricothere, which was the size of a rhino.

A pregnant basilosaurus is forced to kill the young of a smaller whale.

Special effects filled documentary beginning 49 million years ago.

A look at the scientific work which went into the reconstruction of Big Al the Allosaurus.

Scientists study the perfectly preserved remains of an adolescent allosaurus they call "Big Al."

Nigel Marven is on the trail of the dinosaur with the biggest claws of all time.

Imaging technology and scientific collaboration depict dinosaurs in the wild.

David Attenborough explores why dinosaurs vanished while reptiles like crocodiles and turtles survived.