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Research on evolution is ongoing, and some of the information in older documentaries listed here may be outdated. As of March 2022, the most recent documentaries here are Dawn of Humanity, First Peoples, Origins: The Journey of Mankind, Year Million, and Nova.
Dawn of Humanity [1] is a 2015 American documentary film that was released online on September 10, 2015, and aired nationwide in the United States on September 16, 2015. The PBS NOVA National Geographic film, in one episode of two hours, was directed and produced by Graham Townsley.
Ape to Man: Theory of evolution is a dramatised documentary on the scientific community's attempts to find evidence of the missing link [2] between early hominids and anatomically modern humans. [1] This documentary follows a timeline journey of discoveries from 1856, around the time of the publication of Charles Darwin's The Origin of the ...
The series was accompanied by a book by the popular science writer Carl Zimmer Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea. [1] An extensive website provides teaching resources for each episode's material, including "The Mating Game", further looks at Charles Darwin, and an interactive history of speciation in the invented "pollencreeper" birds.
Re-narrated Horizon episode, first aired in the UK in 1972. [4]We give you a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a nature film. Oxford Scientific Films Unit shows how it tackles such problems as filming a wood wasp laying its eggs inside trees, the hatching of a chick and the courtship rituals of the stickleback.
First Peoples is a five-part PBS television documentary program about the first people on the Earth.The program aired in 2015. [1] It shows how humans reached each continent, focusing on various fossil discoveries and placing them into the context of what research has discovered about pre-modern human migration.
Origins: The Journey of Humankind is an American documentary television series that premiered on the National Geographic channel on March 6, 2017. [2] Hosted by Jason Silva, with narration from Mark Monroe, the series uses re-enactments to showcase major inventions and events in the history of human evolution that have been responsible for our modernization.
Making North America is a 2015 American documentary film which premiered nationwide on November 4, 2015. [1] The PBS Nova film, comprising three episodes of one hour each, was hosted by Kirk Johnson (Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History); Peter Oxley directed the first episode while Gwyn Williams directed the second and third.