Stichwort Mankind

Mit der Erfindung der Dampfmaschine fing es an. Mit revolutionärer Rasanz machte sich der Mensch die Erde untertan. Eine Erfindung jagte die nächste, eine Technologie toppte die andere. Für mehr Komfort. Mehr Konsum. Mehr Wohlstand. Und die Erde? Wie lange hält sie den Menschen angesichts der ungeheuren Umweltzerstörung noch aus? Jean-Robert Viallet blickt anhand von Archivaufnahmen aus aller Welt in die Geschichte der letzten beiden Jahrhunderte, von der Kohle-Ära bis in die Zeit von Big Data.

Die Dokumentation reist 12.000 Jahre zurück in die Vergangenheit. Wie hat sich die Erde durch den Einfluss der Menschen verändert? Welche Innovationen haben den Kurs der Evolution nachhaltig beeinflusst? Erstaunliche Bilder und neueste Technik machen deutlich, wodurch unsere Welt von außerordentlicher Komplexität entstanden ist.

Mankind The Story of All of Us is an epic 12-hour television event about the greatest adventure of all time—the history of the human race. It takes 10 billion years for the ideal planet to form and 3 billion more for the right conditions to emerge before it finally happens: mankind begins. From there unfolds a fast-paced story told here through key turning points—stepping stones in our journey from hunter-gatherer to global citizen. It’s a tale of connections—why some ideas take hold and spread around the globe, and how the lives of people in one part of the world are shaped by events in another.

We have been colonised by the machines we have built. Although we don't realise it, the way we see everything in the world today is through the eyes of the computers.

A five-part series that features the latest research exploring how early humans evolved. See how the mixing of prehistoric human genes led the way for our species to survive and thrive around the globe. Archaeology, genetics and anthropology cast new light on 200,000 years of history, detailing how early humans became dominant.

There are seven billion humans on Earth, spread across the whole planet. Scientific evidence suggests that most of us can trace our origins to one tiny group of people who left Africa around 70,000 years ago. In this five-part series, Dr Alice Roberts follows the archaeological and genetic footprints of our ancient ancestors to find out how their journeys transformed our species into the humans we are today, and how Homo Sapiens came to dominate the planet.