Origins: The Journey of Humankind (Season 1)

Origins: The Journey of Humankind (2017) is an American documentary series you can watch online on iFILM, hosted by media artist and philosopher Jason Silva. Produced for National Geographic, it traces the innovations that made modern civilization possible — fire, medicine, money, war — one episode, one breakthrough at a time.

The show doesn't move through a timeline as much as it drops into specific turning points and follows the chain reaction outward. Each installment asks a clean question: what changed that day, and why does it still matter? Stream Origins: The Journey of Humankind online on iFILM.