The BEST seasons of The Ascent of Man

Every season of The Ascent of Man ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best seasons of The Ascent of Man!

Dr Bronowski's magnificent thirteen-part BBC television series The Ascent of Man traces our rise both as a species and as moulders of our own environment and future. It covers the history of science, but of science in the broadest terms. Invention from the flint tool to geometry, from the arch to the theory of relativity, are shown to be expressions of man's specific ability to understand nature, to control it, not to be controlled by it.