good documentaries on the ancient world?

[godsakes]

i know there's a thread for good books etc on the subject

but is there a top list of TV documentaries? i know many of them are plain awful but there's always a few gems "In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great" by Michael Wood comes to mind.

please let me know any recommendations

[Rabhadh]

I found lots of decent documentaries here

Not just history mind, but I'd imagine you'll find something good anyhows.

[Aemilius Paulus]

I found lots of decent documentaries here

Not just history mind, but I'd imagine you'll find something good anyhows.

Hehe, funny, but I used that same site once too. Anyway, most documentaries, if you actually wish to get them through Internet, will probably have to be illegally obtained. AFAIK, Hulu is not big on Documentaries, although I am probably wrong since I rarely use it myself. The PBS website may have the NOVA documentaries IIRC.

As for the "In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great" by Michael Wood that the OP mentioned, I have his book, and I have recently read it. That book is identically titled, which he had written a the same time he was filming. In any case, documentaries are always inferior to decent books. Books can convey so much more, and a splendid comparison would be that book and by M. Wood and his documentary.

In any case, history documentaries almost always skim the edge of knowledge and never provide the in-depth stuff. However, since the OP asked for some, I will repeat a documentary I mentioned in a previous thread: Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire