Category: documentaries

The Age of Alaska | Alaska: History & Beauty Ep4 | Documentary

February 2, 2023
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From the subsistence and peaceful evolution of the native people to the boom of the oil pipeline, get a better understanding of Alaska’s land and people. …

Teotihuacan: The Birth of a Metropolis | Arkeo Ep24 | Documentary

February 1, 2023
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Mexico City, with a population of 22 million, is North America’s second-largest urban agglomeration after New York City. In fact, according to a team of archaeologists, this urban lifestyle takes its roots in Mexico. …

Voices from the Ice | Alaska: History & Beauty Ep3 | Documentary

February 1, 2023
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Journey into the rugged, ice-carved Chugach National Forest in south-central Alaska to explore the plant and animal communities created by glaciers. …

One Man’s Alaska | Alaska: History & Beauty Ep2 | Documentary

January 31, 2023
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An absorbing look at Richard Proenneke, whose filming of his solitary life in Alaska became public television’s “Alone in the Wilderness.” …

Greenland: A Viking Epic | Arkeo Ep23 | Documentary

January 31, 2023
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The Vikings were capable sailors who colonized a number of islands such as England, Ireland, and further north, the Faroe Islands, and Iceland. Was Greenland the only territory to have resisted the Vikings? …

Cheechako | Alaska: History & Beauty Ep1 | Documentary

January 30, 2023
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This 1968 film introduces the term “Cheechako,” an Alaskan Indian word meaning newcomer. The film looks at what kind of living and working conditions newcomers could expect to find when they transferred to the Alaska region in the 1960s. …

Crete: The Myth of the Labyrinth | Arkeo Ep22 | Documentary

January 30, 2023
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The Minoan civilization flourished in Crete and demonstrated a high level of craftsmanship. A labyrinth sheltering a minotaur, royal palaces housing a tyrannical king—for a long time, the Greek myths served as the sole explanation for the architecture. …

Tairona: The ‘Lost City’ of the Tairona People | Arkeo Ep21 | Documentary

January 29, 2023
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For nearly 400 years, one of the largest pre-Columbian cities remained unnoticed, submerged in the rainforest. Known for its gold, “Ciudad Perdida” remained a mystery until a team of Colombian archaeologists rediscovered it in the late 1970s. …

How America Became So Communist | Documentary

January 28, 2023
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Despite being founded as a republic with free market enterprise as its economic guide, America, over the past century and a half, has gravitated more and more toward communism. How is this even possible? Why would we take steps toward an ideology that has not only hurt other countries, but destroyed them? I explain by…

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Trujillo: Twilight of the Mochicas | Arkeo Ep20 | Documentary

January 28, 2023
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One of the driest deserts in the world lies at the foot of the Andes. The Mochica culture flourished in this environment 1,500 years ago. Between the 2nd and 8th century AD, they tamed the desert and built huge adobe pyramids called “huacas.” …