A BAFTA award winning documentary. Locations for the film range from Alaska and the southwest of the USA to the Eastern woodlands. It depicts geologists, archaeologists, anthropologists and scientists from other disciplines piecing together the clues to man's rise from ice age hunter to builder of complex societies more than 2000 years before Columbus set sail for the New World.
| Directing | Alan Pendry | Director |
| Production | Douglas Gordon | Producer |
| Crew | Douglas Gordon | Script |
| Editing | Ralph Sheldon | Editor |
| Sound | Patrick Gowers | Music |