Vikram Jayanti
Director
Neanderthals - Meet Your Ancestors (2018)
Season 1
According to recent science the Neanderthals are not the knuckle-dragging apemen of popular imagination. In fact they are our distant ancestors. About 2% of the DNA of most people is of Neanderthal origin—and it continues to affect us today. Ella Al-Shamahi enlists the skills of Andy Serkis, the master of performance capture, and a group of experts to investigate Neanderthals.
Released May 13, 2018
Episode 45 min
10+
Genres: Documentary
Keywords: tmdb.neanderthal, tmdb.motion-capture, mdblist.imdb-tv-mini-series, mdblist.has-trailer, imdb.tv-mini-series, imdb.neanderthal, tmdb.prehistory + 5 more, tmdb.prehistoric-man, tmdb.historical-reinterpretation, tmdb.history-of-mankind, tmdb.cgi-effects, tmdb.historical-documentary
Watch Providers: PBS Documentaries Amazon Channel
Production Companies: VIXPIX Films, BBC
Network: BBC Two
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
4.0
S1E1 - Episode 1
Ella Al-Shamahi, a rising star in Neanderthal research, enlists the skills of Andy Serkis, the master of performance capture, and a group of experts to create, for the first time ever, a scientifically accurate 3D Neanderthal. They discover that Neanderthals were more like us than we ever thought.
May 13, 2018, midnight
4.0
S1E2 - Episode 2
For around 400,000 years Neanderthals live and thrived right across Europe and Western Europe. But about 40,000 years ago they disappeared. In this second episode in the series, Ella Al-Shamahi - with the help of Hollywood actor Andy Serkis - explores the fate of the Neanderthals, asking why they became extinct, and discovering how they live on inside of us today.
May 20, 2018, midnight
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BBC Two
45 min/ep
90 min
May 13, 2018
May 20, 2018, midnight
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TV-PG / 10+
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