The Human Body — The Nervous System offers fascinating insight into how our brain sets us apart from all other vertebrates. It gives us the ability to speak, reason, remember and engage in complex thought, as well as the capacity to feel compassion, sadness, anger, joy and love.
Subjects: Life Science
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Human Evolution in the Lower Paleolithic Age
Viewers are introduced to the first of our kind, humans in the genus Homo, and learn where they lived and how they survived and adapted. We meet the ancient species that predate modern humans, including an ancient people in Spain, dating back hundreds of thousands of years.
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Human Evolution in the Upper Paleolithic Age
Beginning in the late nineteenth century and throughout the twentieth century, geologists, archaeologists and paleoanthropologists have given the world evidence of the physical and cultural development of humans. Amazing discoveries continue into the twenty-first century, broadening our knowledge of our earliest ancestors and pushing the date of the first appearance of humans to millions of years before recorded history.
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Families in the Wild – 4 Pack
Families in the Wild tell the true story of Hyenas, Lions, Monkeys and Zebra is a 4 disc collection. Journey with these Families in the Wild.
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Prehistoric Man – 3 Pack
The Prehistoric Man 3-part series takes viewers face-to-face with fascinating ancient creatures who looked something like apes but walked upright. We learn how they lived in their foraging societies, what their life may have been like, how they fashioned tools out of stone, wood and bone, and how scientists determine the age of the fossils that give us windows to their world. Moreover, we examine patterns that developed, which give us insight into human adaptation and evolution.
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Human Evolution
Viewers come face to face with fascinating ancient creatures who looked something like apes but walked upright. We’ll learn how they lived in their foraging societies how they fashioned tools out of stone, wood and bone and how scientists determine the age of the fossils that give us windows to their world.
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The Bones of it: An Introduction to the Skeleton
Human bodies contain 206 major bones. Without these bones our bodies would have no shape, nor the ability to move. This program looks at the make up of the skeleton, its functions, how we move, how to look after our bones, and things that can go wrong.
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Elephant Dreams
Do Elephants think like humans? Do they talk like humans? Do they laugh and cry and feel like humans? In this emotionally charged and magnificently beautiful documentary acclaimed Canadian novelist Barbara Gowdy tries to find the answers to these questions.
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Elephant in the City
A one-hour documentary that takes the viewer into the back streets of Bangkok and follows the lives of a young elephant handler named Pong and his loyal companion Mobai, a 25 year old elephant.
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Insect Eaters
From Peru to Indonesia, from Venezuela to South Africa, Insects are considered a delicacy. So why are some people disgusted by the consumption of critters that others consider perfectly normal? The film Insect Eaters takes and insightful look at some of our cultural and gastronomic prejudices.