Flight takes more than wings. We need the right kind of air, the perfect materials cooked up over billions of years, and cosmic forces that are just right for us to leave the ground without tumbling off into space. Big History reveals how planet Earth is the perfect planet for flight.
Aired: Nov 2, 2013 We all know that mankind can't live without air, food and water...the same is...
Aired: Nov 2, 2013 The horse has been a revolutionary animal in unexpected ways. It has changed ...
Aired: Nov 9, 2013 This episode asks why mankind is gold crazy, and discovers there's a hard-wir...
Aired: Nov 9, 2013 Reveals how cold has the power to turn men into Barbarians, spark history's l...
Aired: Nov 16, 2013 From the Great Pyramid at Giza to the towering skyscrapers of today, humans h...
Aired: Nov 16, 2013 Flight takes more than wings. We need the right kind of air, the perfect mate...
Aired: Nov 23, 2013 Behind that cup of coffee or tea is a global story that goes back to the coll...
Aired: Nov 23, 2013 Humans have small teeth and no claws or armor, so how do we project our power...
Aired: Nov 30, 2013 They form natural boundaries, dictate how we spread around the planet, create...
Aired: Nov 30, 2013 How does the cellphone in your pocket link to the Big Bang, the evolution of ...
Aired: Dec 7, 2013 Secret codes run the world. The code of life, DNA, is the operating system fo...
Aired: Dec 7, 2013 Impacts from space have created our planet and just about everything in it. L...
Aired: Dec 14, 2013 The Sun is our master and creator. It gives us our perception of time, contro...
Aired: Dec 14, 2013 Eating meat made us human...by giving us bigger brains, better tools, and spo...
Aired: Dec 21, 2013 Water is the miracle molecule, and mankind has used its perfect properties to...
Aired: Dec 21, 2013 At critical moments in history, our second place metal was the most important...
17. The Big History of Everything
Aired: Dec 28, 2013A two-hour special that caps off the 16-episode first season of H2's "Big His...
Main Cast
Current Status: Ended
Network: H2
Production Country: United States
Genres: Documentary
