Animals That Changed History - Season 1 - Covering: When our ancestors saw how other animals kept warm in sub-freezing temperatures, they started hunting them for their hides and fur. As hominid evolution was diverging from other primates, they lost their thick covering of fur when the mercury dropped.
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Animals That Changed History - Season 1 - Companionship: Throughout history, humans have surrounded themselves with animals. But there are two species that are our undeniable favourites. Every dog today was once a wolf - genetically speaking. Wolves and hominids met as early as 400,000 years ago. Ancient hunter-gatherers and wolves competed for the same prey, and used the same tracking techniques.
Animals That Changed History - Season 1 - Beasts of Burden: About twelve thousand years ago, before the Neolithic Revolution, humans were mainly hunter-gatherers. Among the animals we hunted were the wild aurochs, the ancestor of all domestic cattle. The domestication of cows led to the use of oxen as draught animals that could help farmers plough fields.
Animals That Changed History - Season 1 - Covering: When our ancestors saw how other animals kept warm in sub-freezing temperatures, they started hunting them for their hides and fur. As hominid evolution was diverging from other primates, they lost their thick covering of fur when the mercury dropped.
Animals That Changed History - Season 1 - Food: Human life today would be very different if our ancestors had not stopped hunting animal protein. In the Fertile Crescent - known today as the Middle East - humans travelled in nomadic groups of hunter-gatherers and ate what they killed.
A brook in the Serengeti is the home of a leopardess. The secret queen of the shadows took care of her son and has done a good job so far but the adventure continues.
The gallery forests of the Serengeti are the realm of a phantom. The shadowy thickets are the domain of a Leopardess.
Anacondas have fired people's imagination since time immemorial. Hardly any other animal is so feared and yet at the same time so revered as the biggest snake in the world.
The first programme features four bunkers built before World War Two. We begin with the legendary Franzensfeste in today's northern Italy, a fortress that was never besieged.
The film "The Moon Landing and the Nazis" documents the involvement of German NASA employees with the Third Reich.
"The Royals, the British Aristocracy and the Nazis" presents documents and footage proving the royal family's and leading British aristocrats' sympathy for National Socialism.
Harrowing testimonials from victims show how in 1944 the SS stepped up the “efficiency” of the death factory at Auschwitz and how the perpetrators documented their “work”.
At the end of 1939, the German Army has invaded Poland. They are followed closely by the SS (Schutzstaffel) task forces, which have only one mission: To murder the Polish intelligence.
In October 1934, Hitler's government is firmly in the saddle. The majority of Germans support Hitler's offensive anti-Jewish policy.
After the 1933 parliament fire, President Hindenburg signs a decree that suspends freedom of speech. In mock elections, Hitler secures approval with terror, he intimi-dates his adversaries.
The first programme features four bunkers built before World War Two. We begin with the legendary Franzensfeste in today's northern Italy, a fortress that was never besieged.
The film "The Moon Landing and the Nazis" documents the involvement of German NASA employees with the Third Reich.
"The Royals, the British Aristocracy and the Nazis" presents documents and footage proving the royal family's and leading British aristocrats' sympathy for National Socialism.
Harrowing testimonials from victims show how in 1944 the SS stepped up the “efficiency” of the death factory at Auschwitz and how the perpetrators documented their “work”.
At the end of 1939, the German Army has invaded Poland. They are followed closely by the SS (Schutzstaffel) task forces, which have only one mission: To murder the Polish intelligence.
In October 1934, Hitler's government is firmly in the saddle. The majority of Germans support Hitler's offensive anti-Jewish policy.
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