Guns, Germs and Steel
Film Summary
52:00 mins
Adventure
/ Civilizations & History
/ People & Places
/ Science & Nature
Worldwide
Brief Summary
Conquest, Into the Tropics, Out of Eden Guns, Germs and Steel is a major televisual event - a riveting adventure story that will alter our ideas about the world. Based on the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same title, and with its author, Jared Diamond, as our chief provocateur, this is an epic detective story that spans the globe. Journeying across 13,000 years and five continents, the series goes in search of the very source of human civilisation, and charts its evolution. At its heart, the series asks the most obvious, most important and yet most difficult question about human history - why it unfolded so differently on different continents. The answers appear simple yet extraordinary. Our destiny depends on geography and where you are in the world. The biggest historical questions come down to the plants we grow and the animals we eat. We explore some of the most pivotal moments in world history in intimate detail to reveal the agents of inequality, the weapons, writing, and diseases, that time and again gave agricultural communities the upper hand. More startling still, we explore how in the age of the internet and global travel, when boundaries everywhere are coming down, geography can still affect how societies develop. Using epic and stylish dramatic reconstructions, the latest in high quality computer graphics, together with stunning and entertaining footage of the natural world, the films will bring history and locations vividly to life.
Year Filmed: 2006
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