Rome: Engineering an Empire
Using extensive state-of-the-art CGI animation this documentary chronicles the spectacular as well as sordid history of the Roman Empire from the rise of Julius Caesar in 55 BC to its fall around 537 AD. The CGI animation gives the viewers an opport...
Egypt: Journey to the Global Civilization
Were Egypt’s pyramids really built by slaves to be the tombs of the pharaohs? Most scholars believed so - until the excavation of a workers’ village and the tomb of High Priest Kai led to some startling conclusions. In this program, Zahi Hawass,...
China: Heritage of the Wild Dragon
The fine loess soil of the Yellow River basin quickly established that region as the home of China’s earliest recorded dynasty. This program focuses primarily on Bronze Age China and the contributions of the Yin (or Shang) dynasty, with a tangenti...
Indus: The Unvoiced Civilization
Shrouded in mystery, the details of the Indus Valley civilization are slowly being extracted from the archaeological record. In this program, Richard Meadow, of Harvard University; R. S. Bisht, of the Archaeological Survey of India; linguist Asko H....
Mesopotamia: I Have Conquered the River
Literally "the land between the rivers," Mesopotamia was host to some of the world’s earliest and most powerful civilizations. Shot on location, this program seeks to understand how the Sumerian city-states, cradled by the Tigris and Euphrates Riv...
The Destruction of Memory
Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Tim Slate and narrated by Tony Award-winning actress Sophie Okonedo, this powerful documentary proposes hope: As crimes of cultural destruction are increasingly reported, perpetrators can be brought to justice and awa...