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1.Mammoth Journey (video.google.com)
The migration of the herd of mammoth as they travel 400 kilometres from the North Sea to the Swiss Alps for the winter and then back again in the spring.
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2.LA VACHE QUI RIT (The Glozel affair and controversy) (www.bbc.co.uk)
An amazing 1974 documentary about the Glozel archaeological site in France and the controversy surrounding it.
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The Vinland Mystery: l'Anse aux Meadows (www.youtube.com)A documentary from Canada's National Film Board depicting the search, discovery and authentication of the only known Norse settlement in North America. L'Anse aux Meadows is considered one of the most important archaeological sites in the world.
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Apocolypse: Earthquakes, Archeology and the the Wrath of God (www.youtube.com)A SETI Seminar
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Archeology and Paleontology and NASA (www.youtube.com)From the Mayan ruins to Jamestown Virginia, current NASA technologies are helping archaeologists uncover exciting artifacts. NASA CAT Scan technology helps analyze a ten million-year-old dinosaur named Dakota and the Lewis and Clark Trail is uncovered from space using remote sensing technologies.
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Lost Treasures of Tibet (www.youtube.com)Mustang (moo-stahn), one of the last outposts of Tibetan culture, is so isolated and protected that no Westerner set foot inside its borders for centuries. But in the early 1990s, this untouched society set high in the Himalayas opened its borders for the first time, exposing an ancient world's dazzling sacred relics long damaged by the elements and neglect.
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Digging for the Truth: Angkor Wat (www.youtube.com)Digging for the Truth: Angkor Wat: Eighth Wonder of the World
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8.Egypt: The Habit of Civilization (video.google.com)
Egypt: The Habit of Civilization Ancient Egypt was the first great nation on earth and endured for thousands of years. The god-like Pharaoh was the rock on which this civilization was built. Ancient traditions come together in the Moslem culture that is the Middle East today.
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9.First Contact (video.google.com)
Original footage of the 'first contact' between Papuan highlanders and Australian gold prospectors in the 1930's, together with reflections from surviving participants on their swift introduction to Western colonialism.
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NOVA | Cracking the Maya Code (Awesome!) (www.pbs.org)The complex and beautiful Maya hieroglyphic script was until recently the world's last major undeciphered writing system. Its decoding has unlocked the secrets of one of mankind's greatest civilizations.
Breaking the Maya Code tells the story of the Maya decipherment from the sixteenth century to the present. The feature documentary film is based in large part on the book of the same title by Dr. Michael D. Coe, called by the New York Times “one of the great stories of twentieth century scientific discovery.”
(need to have u.s. ip to watch here!)
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In Search of History Series - The Aztec Empire (video.google.com)The program examines how the society eventually dominated ancient America and how the Spanish vanquished the mighty Aztecs in a matter of months.
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12.Egypts Golden Empire: The Warrior Pharaohs (video.google.com)
Over 3,500 years ago, Rome was no more than a soggy marsh and the Acropolis was just an empty rock, but Egypt was on the brink of its greatest age - the New Kingdom. There was an explosion of creativity, wealth and power in Egypt that would make it the envy of the world. After defeating the Hyksos invaders, successive Pharaohs expanded and maintained their Empire through both force and diplomacy. In the process, they won Egypt vast amounts of gold, influence and respect. Transcript: http://www.pbs.org/empires/egypt/series/transcript1.html
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13.Egypts Golden Empire: The Last Great Pharaoh (video.google.com)
The reign of Ramesses II - known also as Ramesses the Great - marked the high point of the New Kingdom and the high point of Egyptian culture. But like any highpoint, it was all downhill as the New Kingdom gradually fell into ruin.
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14.Egypts Golden Empire: Pharaohs of the Sun (video.google.com)
When Amenhotep III became pharaoh in 1390 BC, Egypt controlled a vast empire and was rich, respected and free. But it faced the challenge of powerful new rivals.
Rather than fighting these rivals, as his predecessors had done, Amenhotep III talked to them. The Amarna letters were small stone tablets - correspondence between the pharaoh and the leaders of rival nations. Instead of war, Egypt was now using diplomacy.
In its diplomacy, Egypt had one huge advantage. Its enormous quantities of gold made it the most valuable ally in the ancient world.
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The Goblin Man of Norway - Parts 1, 2 and 3 (norwegianfilmcommittee.org)Director Howard Byrackk has pushed his unique form of storytelling to a new extreme in his latest documentary film. “The Goblin Manof Norway” explores the possible Norse connections to the controversial ‘Goblin Man’, discovered in northern Norway. Byrackk gained access to exclusive interviews with the key figures behind the discovery, and gives viewers an inside look at the controversy surrounding the Goblin Man.
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16.Are We Cannibals? (video.aol.com)
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