The BEST episodes written by Graham Townsley
#1 - The Great Inca Rebellion
NOVA - Season 34 - Episode 8
In collaboration with National Geographic Television, NOVA explores new evidence about the last days of the Inca Empire.
#2 - Becoming Human Part 1: First Steps
NOVA - Season 36 - Episode 13
The first hour examines the factors that caused the split from the apes. The film explores the fossil of “Selam,” also known as “Lucy’s Child” — an amazing, nearly complete child fossil that helps shed light on our ancestors’ early development and how we began to depart from that of chimps.
#3 - Becoming Human Part 2: Birth of Humanity
NOVA - Season 36 - Episode 14
In gripping forensic detail, the second program in “Becoming Human” investigates the first skeleton that really looks like us — “Turkana Boy” — an astonishingly complete specimen of Homo erectus found by the famous Leakey team in Kenya.
#4 - Becoming Human Part 3: Last Human Standing
NOVA - Season 36 - Episode 15
The final program examines the roots of our own species, Homo sapiens, which new evidence pinpoints to southern Africa some 200,000 years ago. New discoveries are upending old ideas and suggesting that our exodus from Africa was far earlier than previously thought.
#5 - Dawn of the Maya
National Geographic Documentaries - Season 2004 - Episode 3
Through breathtaking discoveries, archaeologists are uncovering the early years of the ancient Maya to reveal a dynamic, sophisticated culture that was flourishing before the time of Christ. The Preclassic Maya—once dismissed as primitive—created massive pyramids, elaborate art, early writing, and more. Join National Geographic's Dawn of the Maya as it investigates the rise one of the world's greatest and most mysterious civilizations.