Los Orígenes De La Humanidad [DVD]

Almost a decade has taken the director Jacques Malaterre and the scientist Yves Coppens to complete the ambitious project of capturing in images the history of the prehistory of man, from the pre-hominids to the founding of the first civilizations, in what is the largest production that has ever been done about our origins. Divided into three large sections, each of them has, in turn, two presentations: a dramatized documentary feature-length film and a documentary mini-series in which the dramatized sequences serve to reinforce the interventions of prestigious scientists from around the world.

LA ODYSSEY OF LA SPECIES (Feature Film 90 min. + Documentary Series 150 min.)
8 million years ago, in the great Rift Valley in Africa, large anthropoids began to differentiate themselves from the first pre-humans. Of the seven species of Australopithecus, only one evolved into the first true human being: Homo habilis, inventor of the tools that helped it increase food intake, helping the development of the brain. These first conquerors began to emigrate and, after a long period of time, would become Homo ergaster and Homo erectus, direct ancestors of today's man, Homo sapiens, whose appearance took place about 400,000 years ago.

HOMO SAPIENS (Feature Film 90 min. + Documentary Series 156 min.)
When Homo sapiens made its appearance, about 400,000 years ago, it demonstrated its superiority to the rest of the hominids that it gradually replaced. Cataclysms, climatic and geological changes repeatedly led him to critical situations, but he always found a way to survive, to better understand the planet he inhabited and to go beyond its limits. His brain developed and branched to incredible degrees that made him an extraordinary thinker. He established his space and delimited it, developed concepts such as couples, family or defense of territory to new levels and invented work, agriculture, writing, art...

THE DAWN OF MAN (Feature Film 90 min. + Documentary Series 104 min.)
Man emerged from Prehistory 12,000 years ago, laying the foundations on which new civilizations would emerge. For thousands of years, Homo sapiens was developing its most extraordinary tool, the brain, setting in motion the most dizzying of mutations. By settling in towns with a large number of individuals, they began to develop and invent tools and services that made their daily lives easier: agriculture, livestock, commerce, the wheel, metal alloys, architecture, religions, writing, the laws The towns, now converted into cities, housed complex hierarchical societies, leading man's long adventure to the present day.