Meet the Ancestors (1998)
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Length
- 7 seasons, 46 episodes
- Rating
- 7.5 of 10 from 2 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
An archaeologist presents the unearthing and study of ancient human skeletons. Forensic experts use the bones to rebuild what the people may have looked like.
informativeeducationalmatter-of-factcuriousreflectiveslow-pacedclinicalintriguing
What happens
Meet the Ancestors (later Ancestors) is a BBC Television documentary series first broadcast in 1998. It documented the archaeological excavation and scientific reconstruction of human remains. The series was introduced by archaeologist Julian Richards and often included facial reconstructions by Caroline Wilkinson. A follow-up to the series, Stories from the Dark Earth: Meet the Ancestors Revisited, was broadcast in 2014 on BBC Four. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
More like this
- History Cold Case (2010)
- Mummy Mysteries (2020)
- Earth Story (1998)
- Medical Detectives (1996)
- History's Mysteries (1998)
- Time Team Live (1997)
- Finding the Fallen
- Ancient Discoveries (2003)
Browse movies and series
press Enter to search by title, your filters still apply · for something by mood, tap Discover
Lists: Korean thrillers worth the evening · Anime films beyond Studio Ghibli · Slow films for a rainy night · Horror that unsettles instead of startling · Series you can finish in a weekend · Nordic crime worth the subtitles · Good films that end in under 90 minutes · Documentaries that play like thrillers
Loading movies…