Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label History. Show all posts

Nova - Absolute Zero

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PART OF THE PBS SERIES, NOVA: Absolute Zero is a two episode documentary that discusses what cold actually is as a force in the universe, and how mankind's understanding of the lower temperatures changed the way our civilized world has evolved.



The Conquest of Cold
Episode 1
Episode one of this series discusses what drove early scientists to start looking at the more frigged temperatures as a force to be studied and measured, and how our understanding of cold began to develop from then.

The Race for Absolute Zero
Episode 2
Episode two of this series explains how and when scientists began to peruse and apply the lowest of the low temperatures to create human advances such as steam locomotion, refrigeration, and air conditioning.



Origins Of Us

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A THREE PART BBC DOCUMENTARY: Origins Of Us explores the varying changes our primate-ancestor's bodies went through during their journey along the evolutionary branch of the family tree that leads to modern-day humans.



Origins Of Us

Bones
Episode 1
Episode one of this series discusses how our evolving bones allowed us to leave our woodland environment, and stride out into the open savannas of our ancient African homeland.

Guts
Episode 2
Episode two of this series explores how our stomachs and digestive systems evolved to cope with the change of diet we encountered in our new and rapidly changing world.

Brains
Episode 3
Episode three of this series examines the roles our big human brains played in our evolutionary advance, and what the changes were in our past lifestyles which may have driven this radical development.



Nova - Last Extinction

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PART OF THE PBS SERIES, NOVA: Last Extinction discusses possible scenarios which may have led to mega fauna such as the woolly mammoth, the sabertooth cat, and the giant sloth of 12,000 years ago to suffer a sudden mass-extinction.



Inside the Milky Way

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A NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTARY: Inside the Milky Way explores our home galaxy, from where we reside within it, to its birth in the early universe, though to it's eventual emergence with our closest neighbor (the Andromeda Galaxy).



Ape Man: Search for the First Human

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A NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTARY: Ape Man: Search for the First Human reconstructs a story based on the fossil remains of a Sahelanthropus Tchadensis (a seven million year old ancestor of man) found in the Djurab Desert in Northern Chad.



Ape to Man

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A HISTORY CHANNEL DOCUMENTARY: Ape to Man reenacts fossil digs from the last century and a half which, when placed in a consecutive time-line, unfolds a three million year branch of the evolutionary family tree that outlines the ancestry of the human race.



The Universe - Catastrophes That Changed The Planets

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PART OF THE HISTORY CHANNEL SERIES, THE UNIVERSE: Catastrophes That Changed The Planets explores major impact events and planetary readjustments that manipulated the early solar system into the arrangement we're familiar with today.



Decoding The Past - Secrets of the Kabbalah

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PART OF THE HISTORY CHANNEL SERIES, DECODING THE PAST: Secrets of the Kabbalah explores the origins of this ancient school of thought which, loosely put, is a discipline said to explain the relationship between the Creator, the finite universe, and the mortal being.



Prehistoric Park

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A SIX PART HISTORY CHANNEL MOCKUMENTARY: Prehistoric Park allows viewers to travel back in time with their host, Nigel Marven, as he attempts rescue ancient animals from extinction and bring them back to a zoo-like environment called Prehistoric Park.



T. rex Returns
Episode 1
In episode one of this series Nigel goes back to a time just before Chicxulub impact to rescue the most famous predator of ancient times, the tyrannosaurus rex, but ends up with more than he bargains for when he sends home an adolescent triceratops and a herd of ornithomimus.

A Mammoth Undertaking
Episode 2
In episode two of this series Nigel rescues an injured mammoth from early cro-magnon hunters only to find it won't eat when he gets it back to the park. Upon returning to the past in an attempt to gather food samples for the ill-fated mammoth, he decides to bring back an elasmotherium (a woolly rhino).

Dinobirds
Episode 3
In episode three of this series Nigel endeavors to save some microraptors from an exploding volcano in prehistoric China and ends up rescuing a herd of borealosaurus (referred to as titanosaur) in the process. Back at the park, staff deal with a heatwave, an expectant mom, and a pair of unruly tyrannosaurs.

Saving the Sabretooth
Episode 4
In episode four of this series Nigel attempts to save both a phorusrhacos (a giant ten foot tall bird-like creature) and a smilodon populator (a saber-tooth cat) while staff look on over the very first dinosaur births in the park.

The Bug House
Episode 5
In Episode five of this series Nigel goes back to rescue an arthropleura (a man-sized millepede), a meganeura (a giant dragonfly), and a pulmonoscorpius (a huge scorpion). Park staff tend to an injured tyrannosaur while building an oxygen-rich bug enclosure for their upcoming arrivals.

Supercroc
Episode 6
In Episode six of this series Nigel uses himself as bait to try and capture a deinosuchus (the largest crocodile species that ever lived) while staff back at the park attend to a lonely mammoth and a pair brand new of nursing smilodons.


Quest For The Phoenicians

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A NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTARY: Quest For The Phoenicians searches for DNA evidence linking these ancient people to modern-day Lebanon while scouring the depths of the Mediterranean Sea for sunken Phoenician shipwrecks.



Earth: Making of a Planet

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A NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTARY: Earth: Making of a Planet examines the timeline of our planet from its creation in our newly forming solar system, to the birth of the moon and the oceans, to the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaur, and onward to us.



Horizon - Snowball Earth

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PART OF THE BBC SERIES, HORIZON: Snowball Earth explores evidence for a global ice age some six million years ago, and discusses what, with most of the suns rays being reflected back into space at this time, may have caused the ice to recede back toward the poles.


Miracle Planet (Five-Disc Box Editopm)


Horizon - Einstein's Unfinished Symphony

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PART OF THE BBC SERIES, HORIZON: Einstein's Unfinished Symphony discusses the equations this great scientist was working on during the latter part of his years, and how he was ill-considered and oftentimes ridiculed amongst his peers because of it.



The Mystery of the Sphinx

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PRODUCED BY ROBERT WATTS: The Mystery of the Sphinx investigates evidence of water-erosion on and around the Sphinx which leads some scientists to speculate the date of its construction to be thousands of years before the current Egyptologists theories.



Nova - The Great Inca Rebellion

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PART OF THE PBS SERIES, NOVA: The Great Inca Rebellion investigates puzzling evidence turned up in an archeological dig about how events may have played out when the Spanish conquistadors and their native allies ambushed the emperor of the Inca Empire.



The Revelation Of The Pyramids

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AN EKWANIM PRODUCTIONS FILM: The Revelation Of The Pyramids explores the idea that the Pyramids of Giza along with numerous other megalithic constructions encompassing the planet have a more interconnected theme than mainstream historians have conceived.





 

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