Mankind The Story of All of Us is about the greatest adventure of all time—the history of the human race.
It takes 10 billion years for the ideal planet to form and 3 billion more for the right conditions to emerge before it finally happens: mankind begins. From there unfolds a fast-paced story told here through key turning points — stepping stones in our journey from hunter-gatherer to global citizen. It’s a tale of connections — why some ideas take hold and spread around the globe, and how the lives of people in one part of the world are shaped by events in another.
Episodes covered throughout the series include the ice age, the advent of farming, the sacking of Rome, the discovery of the New World, the fall of the Aztec empire, the Industrial Revolution and so much more. This is our story — a story of triumph and overcoming, of survival on a harsh and brutal planet. It is the story of all of — and how, against the odds, we survived.