Today, science denies any validity to astrology. Yet for 4,000 years, millions of people have believed in it. Do the movements of the stars and planets really hold the secrets of human destiny?

An exploration of the mysterious seers of the past and their amazingly accurate predictions. Includes an account of the Titanic disaster written 16 years before it occurred.

A look at the goddess of volcanoes, who became the most powerful of the Hawaiian gods. Was Pele once a real woman? What would trigger her explosive temper? And what rituals were performed to appease her?

Join the custodians of the "Dreamtime," an Aboriginal philosophy that meshes the past to the present and future, as they reenact primeval rituals. Learn how Australia's Aborigines, the oldest continuous culture on earth, survived some 100,000 years.

A sweeping worldwide look at the inventive genius of ancient people. Features a ride in a balloon designed a thousand years ago. A 2-hour special presentation.

A journey into the dark depths of the Amazon to study the Shuar, a ferocious tribe of headhunters that once ruled the jungles of Ecuador.              

White lace, confetti, and a pair of gold rings: that's just one form of marriage. In the villages of Kyrgyzstan, marriage is a hunt that ends in a violent abduction. In the woods of New England, it's a pagan hand-fasting ceremony.