Guns, Germs and Steel – Part one
Based on Jared Diamond’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Guns, Germs and Steel traces the journey humankind has taken from the end of the last Ice Age to modern day life in the twenty-first century in a quest to understand why white Europeans managed to conquer so much of the world.
Three one-hour programs were made, filmed across four continents and combining ambitious dramatic reconstruction with moving documentary footage and computer animation. The first episode begins on the island of Papua New Guinea in 1974 when a local named Yali asked Diamond a deceptively simple question: “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo, but we black people had little cargo of our own?”.
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