Title: Mesopotamia
Description: Literally "the land between the rivers, " Mesopotamia was host to some of the worlds earliest and most powerful civilizations. Shot on location, this program seeks to understand how the Sumerian city-states, cradled by the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, built a vibrant agricultural economy and why, after centuries, the wheat crop suddenly failed.
Subjects: Documentary films, Antiquities, Civilization
Places: Iraq
Time periods: To 634