突破孤立隔绝、僵化不变的史学成见，Henry Louis Gates Jr.博士讲述从人类诞生到二十世纪，二十万年来非洲的文明进化。 　　In his six-hour 3 part series, Africa's Great Civilizations, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. takes a new look at the history of Africa, from the birth of humankind to the dawn of the 20th century. This is a breathtaking and personal journey through two hundred thousand years of history, from the origins, on the African continent, of art, writing and civilization itself, through the millennia in which Africa and Africans shaped not only shaped their own rich civilizations, but also the wider world.

【埃及文明】Egypt - The Way of Eternity 　　古希腊的历史学家希罗多德告诉我们，金字塔是以奴隶建造，用来安放死者的地方。但是，如果我们从"每年九月泛滥的尼罗河"这个角度来探讨构筑金字塔这件事的话，将出现截然不同的观点。 长久以来，建筑运河、堤防这类庞大灌溉系统显然一直是农民劳动者的职责。这是让泛滥时节无所事事的农人们有工作可做的大规模公共工程。十年前在工人村发掘出一千具左右的人骨，经过分析研究后，强有力地支持金字塔是某种公共工程这种说法。 古埃及人会费心为奴隶施行手术或其它形式的医疗吗？这些人骨中有曾经受到良好医疗照顾的明显痕迹，同时也暗示着金字塔的基本功能是在洪水泛滥时期为农民提供工作。法老们可说是最早开始实践凯恩斯学派经济理论的人。 　　【美索不达米亚文明】Mesopotamia - The Gardens of Babel 　　乌尔城是世上最早的城市建立者-苏美人最伟大的成就。现在，乌尔城遗址所在之处是伊拉克南部的荒漠地带。NHK是波斯湾战争后首批得以拍摄这些古城遗迹的电视工作团队。 是什么扼杀了这片丰饶的大地？为何技能足以创造出运河、庙塔与最早文字的人往北方迁移？毕竟，如果他们未曾北移，可能不会有巴比伦王国的出现。苏美人发现了能带来大量小麦收成的肥沃土壤。他们在作物产量方面所达到的水准，大约有中古世纪欧洲的十倍左右。这可说是对灌溉系统与丰饶大地的一种礼赞。 然而，苏美人与大自然搏斗的方式，是使用底格里斯河与幼发拉底河流域带有盐分的河水灌溉农作物。他们为了寻求生存之道，不断开发新耕地，并以大麦取代小麦。本节目重现了这场伟大试验的丰功伟绩。在苏美这里进行的尝试，终究是失败了。但这块土地上的居民，已为人类的历史写下新的篇章。 　　【印度河文明】The Indus - The Masters of the River 　　最近，在古哲拉特省谷地一带，发现了一处称为多拉维拉的城市遗迹。它的年代可能晚于摩亨佐达罗或哈拉帕这些伟大的城市。NHK是首批拍摄这些遗迹的电视工作团队。 卫星影像上显示出一条业已乾涸、只留下含盐沉积物的河-加格拉?哈喀拉河。多拉维拉就位于这条河的河口。人们一直认为这条古河只是个传说，但现在我们知道它确实曾经存在过。多拉维拉是座海港，同时也是与美索不达米亚进行贸易的中枢。由于这座城的居民深知如何贮存河水、雨水与地下水，因而被称为"水都"。 　　【中国文明】China - The Soul of the Dragon 　　「黄河」的得名，就来自于河水所挟带泥沙的颜色。陕西原本是十分富庶而丰饶的地区，但不断砍伐森林，土壤流失的结果，造成今日这种荒瘠的景象。 幸运的是，这里的黄土蕴藏有大量的铜矿。古代中国曾以「青铜王国」著称，以青铜合金制作大量器物。这个节目将会解释古代中国对于铜的使用，以及所作铜器的形制如何传布影响到其它地区。我们将以计算机动画重新呈现这些铜器原来美丽的外形。 黄土细致的质地很适合用来制作陶器，利用计算机动画，我们也能看到这些器物制造的过程。黄土作的器物都相当耐用，一座以黄土作成的城墙不仅坚固，而且至今仍然维持原貌不变。

本片属于PBS 帝国系列（PBS Empires Series） 　　探索了历史上最辉煌的两个世纪——希腊帝国时期。

China - The Soul of the Dragon 　　The Wild Dragon's Heritage. The story begins more than 1,500 years before our current era on the banks of the Hwang Ho - or Yellow River and the Yang Tse Kiang or Blue River, whose formidable power has been feared and respected by men through the ages. To control them, the renowned emperor Quinshihuangdi, today regarded as the first man to unify the great land of China, installed highly sophisticated irrigation systems and dissuaded his people from resorting to prayers and rituals in their attempt to combat the rivers' demons. The discovery of Quinshihuangdi's tomb in 1974 revealed that this savior of a land subjected to the mighty rivers' whim was held in unbounded reverence: 8,000 individually crafted terracotta warriors stand guard over their king for eternity. 　　Egypt - The Way of Eternity 　　A Journey in the Nile Valley. For 3,000 years, from the construction of the first pyramid until the death of Cleopatra, Egypt was a land of prosperity; largely thanks to the River Nile. What is the story of the development of this impressive civilisation and its relationship with its principal source of life? How did the river valley evolve during Antiquity? Why did the Egyptians never fight against nature, preferring to draw their own life-force from its natural power? And what remains today of the riches and wealth that nature has offered to Egypt? Shaped and fashioned by the hand of man in his pursuit of modernity, against all odds, the Nile has finally been tamed. 　　The Indus - The Masters of the River 　　A Silent Civilisation. One of the most mysterious of these four civilisations is no doubt that which developed around the Indus, discovered only in 1920. Considered to be one of the world's most powerful rivers, the Indus has a flow rate twice as high as the Nile, and three times that of the Tigris and the Euphrates. Its geographical course enabled extensive communication to be developed and, at the same time, the rise of a prosperous civilisation, the Harappeans.What was the story of this recently discovered civilisation, and how can we explain its decline? 　　Mesopotamia - The Gardens of Babel 　　The Conquest of Two Rivers. Mesopotamia, or the country between two rivers, is the oldest civilisation to have flourished at the confluence of two rivers: the Tigris and the Euphrates. The Mesopotamians included various peoples, the Sumerians, the Babylonians, the Akkadians, who coexisted and succeeded one another, mixing and inter-relating in a Near East with a wide range of racial facets. These different peoples, who once lived along the banks of the two rivers, have left behind an archaeological heritage of inestimable value. How did they flourish in such a hostile environment? Where did their wealth come from? And how did this perfectly structured civilisation finally fade and disappear for ever?

An alien ship encounters a strange flying object: the Voyager spacecraft. Professor Dr. Georg Friedele wants to teach the aliens about evolution on earth but the more the aliens listen the angrier they turn towards the humans.

An alien ship encounters a strange flying object: the Voyager spacecraft. Professor Dr. Georg Friedele wants to teach the aliens about evolution on earth but the more the aliens listen the angrier they turn towards the humans.

央视 八集电视纪录片《绍兴：一座名城的2500年》以史为据,借助现代科技手段,融史料拍摄、动画制作、情景再现、专家学者采访于一体,从理性的角度诠释一段段封尘的历史,解读了历史文化名城绍兴别样的多元文化。该片获2010年度浙江省广播电视新闻奖一等奖。

Author and historian Simon Sebag Montefiore presents a three-part series uncovering the central role played by religion in creating and maintaining the power of the city of Rome.

本动画片以讽刺笔触讲述了人类的所谓文明发展史其实是一部充满杀戮和鲜血的战争史。 　　从古代到现代，从西方到东方，从野蛮到文明，武器永远是人类征服同类称王称霸的不二法宝，随着年代的递进，武器的级别越来越高，但它的杀戮本质从没改变过，而掌握武器之后，权利、财富和美人也招手即来。但再伟大的胜利者，在大自然眼中也是失败者，人类从来都是大自然嘲笑的对象。

由美国历史频道投资拍摄，从大历史的角度来探索人类史诗般的历史时刻，时间跨度超越1亿3000年，年度最值得推荐的历史纪录片！出自《神秘的宇宙》和《人类消失后的地球》原班主创团队之手，《大历史》将发掘标志性事件与我们日常生活之间的联系，从而给历史平添一分科幻色彩。