Up From The Ape

A documentary drawn from Robert Ardrey's books, tracing 15 million years of human evolution. Ardrey contends that humanity began killing systematically about 30,000 years ago, when Cro-Magnon Man killed Neanderthal Man for being different. Man has killed ever since. This rare and unusually stark docudrama features a cast composed entirely of men in ape suits and draws on Ardrey's work as an anthropologist and screenwriter to explore the origins and evolution of the killer instinct.