Guns, Germs, and Steel

I found out that tomorrow on the History Channel, they're showing the documentary entitled, "Guns, Germs, and Steel" at 9:00pm - 12:00pm on channel 45. I highly recommend this documentary to anyone who enjoyed games like Civilization, or they have an interest in history. Out of all the documentaries I've watched this year, Guns, Germs, and Steel is definitely one of my favourite ones for 2005.

Here's an abstract of the documentary from PBS:


The theory that the researcher presents gives a very fascinating hypothesis as to why certain things are like this in the world. Why is Africa poor? How did the European powers take over so much of the world? It nicely ties together events from the beginning of mankind, to events that affect us now.

The documentary combines entertainment and education. It has lots of re-creations of events in history, and the researcher visits a lot of exotic places.

If you can't watch the show, PBS has a summary of the three hour series.