Originating in underground Black and gay clubs, disco had unseated rock as America’s most popular music by the late 1970s. But many diehard rock fans viewed disco, with its repetitive beat and culture that emphasized pleasure, as shallow and superficial.
In this new series, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals humanity’s incredible story across 300,000 years of human evolution and how – thanks to new discoveries – we’re learning that the story is stranger and more surprising than we ever imagined.
One man’s pursuit to understand the deadliest storms.
Investigate one of the most powerful volcanic eruptions in recorded history.
Scientists uncover the secrets of the Mandrin Cave in France, where the remains of a Neanderthal were found in 2015.
Uncovers the insidious ways in which our daily lives are being surveilled by the state. In a gripping chase, Ronan Farrow travels across the world following breadcrumbs and finally exposing a dark world.
David Attenborough looks into the ocean’s depths to discuss the coelacanth, a primeval fish hidden for 400 million years
Mats Steen, a Norwegian gamer, died of a degenerative muscular disease at the age of 25. His parents mourned what they thought had been a lonely and isolated life, when they started receiving messages from online friends around the world.
FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate how an online network known as Terrorgram spread extremism and violence.
See how our understanding of nature and the universe has been transformed since the 1970s.
For nearly 50 years, chemical engineer and inventor Mária Telkes applied her prodigious intellect to harnessing the power of the sun.
Explores three individual whistleblowers and activists Christo Grozev, Vladimir Kara-Murza, and an unnamed scientist, who face grave consequences for their efforts exposing Vladimir Putin’s regime.