‎The Incredible Human Journey - Apple TV

TV Show · Documentary · Special Interest

Dr Alice Roberts travels the globe to discover the incredible story of how humans left Africa to colonize the world, overcoming hostile terrain, extreme weather and other species of human. In this groundbreaking documentary, she pieces together precious fragments of bone, stone and new DNA evidence and discovers how this journey changed these African ancestors into the people of today.

2009 · 59m

Starring Prof Alice Roberts

EPISODE 1

Out of Africa

As her quest to follow the colonizing path of early humans begins, Alice Roberts travels to Africa in search of the birthplace of the first people. They were so few in number and so vulnerable that today they would probably be considered an endangered species. So how did they survive at all? And by what route, did humans make it out of Africa? Alice goes searching for clues in the Arabian Desert.
EPISODE 2

Australia

How did our ancient ancestors make the seemingly impossible journey to Australia?
EPISODE 3

Asia

Alice Roberts investigates how early hunter-gatherers survived in the punishing Arctic.
EPISODE 4

Europe

Alice investigates how our species coped with rival Neanderthals and the brutal Ice Age.
EPISODE 5

The Americas

Alice Roberts investigates how early humans may have reached North and South America.

The Incredible Human Journey

Ice Age Giants
Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives
Rise of the Continents
Digging For Britain
Early Humans: Ice, Stone, and Survival
Ancient Worlds
Wilderness with Simon Reeve
Mysteries From Above
History of the World in Two Hours

Prof Alice Roberts

Host