What would life on earth be like without the moon? Well, chances are, there wouldn't be any life on ... earth without the moon. Life – if it had started at all – would still be in the earliest stages of evolution.

Understanding of humans' earliest past often comes from studying fossils. They tell us much of what we know about the people who lived before us. There is one thing fossils cannot tell us; at what point did we stop living day-to-day and start to think symbolically, to represent ideas about our environment and how we could change it? At a dig in South Africa the discovery of a small piece of ochre pigment, 70,000 years old, has raised some very interesting questions. [More] [Less]

In 1961, a four-year-old chimpanzee named Ham became the first animal to return from space alive. He proved that humans could survive the extreme conditions of space. This drama, based on NASA's records and archive footage, tells the story of this remarkable chimp and Jeff, the handler who came to love him over two years of training. [More] [Less]

On July 14, 1789, a mob of angry Parisians stormed the Bastille and seized the King's military stores. A decade of idealism, war, murder, and carnage followed, bringing about the end of feudalism and the rise of equality and a new world order. The French Revolution is a definitive feature-length documentary that encapsulates this heady (and often headless) period in Western civilization. With dramatic reenactments, illustrations, and paintings from the era, plus revealing accounts from journals and expert commentary from historians, The French Revolution vividly unfurls in a maelstrom of violence, discontent, and fundamental change. [More] [Less]

Documentary explores the continuing appeal of Sherlock Holmes through his various screen incarnations, from early silent films through the classic portrayals by Basil Rathbone and Peter Cushing to the BBC's most recent Rupert Everett version. Contributors include Minette Walters, Kim Newman and Edward Hardwicke. [More] [Less]

t's a documentary about poverty in the so-called Third and First Worlds. It analyses both societies from the perspectives of the NGOs, the media, the education, the politicians and the religion, and it challenges the UN eight objectives for the new millennium. Hot For Profit will make you think about your attitude and the potential for change that a single individual may have. The documentary was filmed in Nicaragua and Barcelona (Spain). [More] [Less]

Here are the Top 50 Outrageous, crazy, insane, spectacular, amazing, idiotic and downright unbelievavle Moments In Sports presented by The Best Damn Sports Show Period.

In this 90-minute documentary, Rageh Omaar uncovers the hidden story of Europe's Islamic past and looks back to a golden age when European civilization was enriched by Islamic learning.

Scientology snuck into Clearwater, Florida in 1978 under the assumed name of United Churches. Since then they have come to dominate the small town.

Secrets of the CIA

This programme delves into the fascinating world of the ancient Maya. More than two thousand years ago, the astronomers and timekeepers of this ancient civilisation predicted that the world would come to an end on December 21, 2012. How and why did they arrived at this stunning conclusion?

Scientists now believe there may really be a parallel universe - in fact, there may be an infinite number of parallel universes, and we just happen to live in one of them. These other universes contain space, time and strange forms of exotic matter. Some of them may even contain you, in a slightly different form. Astonishingly, scientists believe that these parallel universes exist less than one millimetre away from us. In fact, our gravity is just a weak signal leaking out of another universe into ours. [More] [Less]

This documentary examines a selection of real life serial killers and compares them to the fictional Hannibal Lecter.

One of the most popular beliefs was that Stonehenge was built by the Druids. These high priests of the Celts, constructed it for sacrificial ceremonies.

Great Natural Wonders of the World is a wonderful journey across the seven continents in search of the most impressive and inspiring natural wonders of our planet.

Documentary about the legendary tank man and surrounding events of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989.

Documentary about the creation of one of the greatest and most influential albums of all time. Circa 1992.

"Give me a child until he is seven and i will give you the man" 7th episode of a series (and the last for now) which monitors the development of numerous individuals throughout their life. They're now 49 years old.

"Give me a child until he is seven and i will give you the man".The 6th of the series it revisits the members of this social project with all it's participants now 42 years old.

"Give me a child until he is seven and i will give you the man". The fifth in a series which follows the devlopment of 14 individuals from different backgrounds in the UK. In this episode they're revisited at the age of 35.

"Give me a child until he is seven and i will give you the man". The third in a series which follows the devlopment of 14 individuals from different backgrounds in the UK. In this episode they're revisited at 21 to see how they've developed since the two previous episodes (filmed at ages 7 and 14)

All right, lets break up the funk in "John Locker". The Up Series consists of a series of documentary films that have followed the lives of fourteen British children since 1964, when they were seven years old. The children were selected to represent the range of socio-economic backgrounds in Britain at that time, with the explicit assumption that each child's social class predetermines their future. Every seven years, the director, Michael Apted, films new material from as many of the fourteen as he can get to participate. [More] [Less]

Many people think of the dinosaurs as the first inhabitants of the earth, but this prequel to Walking With Dinosaurs puts viewers in the midst of a host of strange creatures that inhabited the earth millions of years before the dinosaurs ever existed. With the help of complex computer animation and the research of hundreds of paleontologists, the BBC presents an extremely realistic picture of the earth's earliest, most primitive aquatic inhabitants and chronicles their evolution to the precursors of man himself and the mighty dinosaurs. [More] [Less]