The Best Human Origins Documentaries

Dinosaurs & Prehistory - 18 free documentaries about human origins.

Start with All Of Human History In One Hour (63 min, Kurzgesagt), then This Secret Cave Could Change How We See Early Humans (54 min, NOVA PBS Official). All 18 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on human origins is Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari.

• All Of Human History In One Hour (63 min, Kurzgesagt)
• This Secret Cave Could Change How We See Early Humans (54 min, NOVA PBS Official)
• How Prehistoric Men Survived | Full Special (91 min, HISTORY)
• What Happened Before History? Human Origins (10 min, Kurzgesagt)
• The Mystery Of The 2,000,000 Year Old Human Remains | Mystery Of Our Ancestors (48 min, Timeline - World History Documentaries)
• Are These Remains Our Ancestors From Two-Million Years Ago? | Mystery Of Our Ancestors (47 min, Odyssey)
• Prof Alice Roberts Uncovers Incredible Origins Of Ancient Humans (58 min, BBC Studios)
• The Last Neanderthals: Ancient DNA Solves A 49,000-Year-Old Mystery (52 min, Odyssey)
• Neanderthals and us (26 min, DW Documentary)
• What Caused The Extinction Of The Neanderthals? | The Neanderthal in Us (53 min, Spark)
• Archeologists Investigate Newly Discovered DNA Evidence Of Our Prehistoric Ancestors (102 min, Odyssey)
• What Did The First Humans Actually Look Like? (49 min, Odyssey)
• Uncovering The Lost World Of Our Earliest Human Ancestors (50 min, Odyssey)
• Why Were We The Only Humans Who Survived? (52 min, Spark)
• Cannibal Cave: The Dark End of the Neanderthals (52 min, Free Documentary - History)
• Rebuilding Turkana Boy: 1.5-Million-Year-Old Human Ancestor Revealed (59 min, Spark)
• Homo Sapiens: How Humans Conquered the Planet (92 min, Free Documentary - History)
• Where do we come from? | Paleontologist Fred Spoor (46 min, VPRO Documentary)

Top-Rated Books About Human Origins

1. Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari (4.2/5) - View on Amazon
2. Lone Survivors by Chris Stringer - View on Amazon
3. Kindred by Rebecca Wragg Sykes - View on Amazon
4. Who We Are and How We Got Here by David Reich (4.4/5) - View on Amazon
5. Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind by Donald Johanson - View on Amazon
6. Neanderthal Man by Svante Pääbo - View on Amazon
7. On the origin of species by means of natural selection by Charles Darwin (4.3/5) - View on Amazon
8. The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins (4.5/5) - View on Amazon
9. The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins (4.8/5) - View on Amazon