BBC - Planet of the Apemen Battle for Earth 1

BBC - Planet of the Apemen Battle for Earth 1


The story of how Homo sapiens once shared the Earth with other species of hominid, and how, against all the odds, we survived.

Episode 1 of 2


In the not-too-distant past, humans shared this planet with other species of hominid. This series tells how, against all the odds, Homo sapiens survived.

This episode is set 75,000 years ago in India, following a catastrophic super-volcanic eruption which forced a showdown between our ancestors and a completely different species of human, Homo erectus, who up until that point had reigned supreme