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01/01/1975 Documentary 0h 42m
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Overview

A BAFTA award winning documentary. Locations for the film range from Alaska and the southwest of the USA to the Eastern woodlands. It depicts geologists, archaeologists, anthropologists and scientists from other disciplines piecing together the clues to man's rise from ice age hunter to builder of complex societies more than 2000 years before Columbus set sail for the New World.

  1. Alan Pendry

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Peter Marinker

    Narrator

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A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2025-06-05
This is quite an interesting, if somewhat dry, documentary that gives us a potted history of ancient life in North America. We start with quite an intriguing dig from Arizona that was discovered in the mid 1950s the revealed the skeletons of some nine mammoth as well as some flint spear heads that were crafted by the early Clovis population. Using carbon dating they have established that these animals have been dead for over 11,000 years - but are by no means the oldest examples of life on a continent that was once freely accessible from Siberia. As time moved on and the ice retreated, human b...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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