In what promises to be a magnificent made-for-TV event is the 6 part Mankind: The Story of All of Us coming to History (DStv 186) from Sunday 18 November at 21:00, rolling through millenia of human existence in a breathtaking perspective docu-filmseries.
Mankind: The Story of All of Us was filmed in South Africa and Cape Town since December last year and will be narrated by Stephen Fry when it unspools in 6 two-hour episodes from November.
The 12 hour docuseries will take viewers from the first flourishings of civilisation in Mesopotamia through to the discovery of America and beyond.
Mankind: The Story of Us wants to be less a history lesson than to immerse TV viewers in the rise and fall of the world's greatest societies and revealing in an interesting way the milestones which led to our modern world - from creating the alphabet to domesticating crops.
The series follows on America: The Story of Us and will blend geography, natural history and science to provide, according to the producers, "an unparalleled examination of the formation fo the world, and the extraordinary journey of the people that have inhabited it".
