Native America
2019•1h 0m•9.3/10
Documentary
Ratings
🎬TMDb
9.3/10(3)
Explore the world created by America’s First Peoples. This four part series reaches back 15,000 years to reveal massive cities aligned to the stars, unique systems of science and spirituality, and 100 million people connected by social networks spanning two continents.
Production
Providence Pictures
Language
EN
Status
Returning Series
First Aired
August 24, 2019
Last Aired
November 14, 2023
Networks
PBS
Trailers & Videos
Where to Watch
Region US · Lang EN
US
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Seasons & Episodes
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Season
E1
From Caves to Cosmos
Air date: 2019-08-24
Combine ancient wisdom and modern science to answer a 15,000-year-old question: who were America’s First Peoples? The answer hides in Amazonian cave paintings, Mexican burial chambers, New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon and waves off California’s coast.
E2
Nature to Nations
Air date: 2019-08-24
Explore the rise of great American nations, from monarchies to democracies. Investigate lost cities in Mexico, a temple in Peru, a potlatch ceremony in the Pacific Northwest and a tapestry of shell beads in upstate New York whose story inspired our own democracy.
E3
Cities of the Sky
Air date: 2019-08-31
Discover the cosmological secrets behind America’s ancient cities. Scientists explore some of the world’s largest pyramids and 3D-scan a lost city of monumental mounds on the Mississippi River; native elders reveal ancient powers of the sky.
E4
New World Rising
Air date: 2019-08-31
Discover how resistance, survival and revival are revealed through an empire of horse-mounted Comanche warriors, secret messages encoded in an Aztec manuscript and a grass bridge in the Andes that spans mountains and centuries.
Cast
Robbie Robertson
Self - Narrator (voice)
