The film presents compelling evidence that Altlantis wasn't so far away after all, but what it omits is just as compelling. Although Plato’s account of Atlantian masonry, consisting of red, white and black stones, was a visually perfect match for the modern walls of the Minoan excavation site favored by the film, and his account of a sea made impassable by small islands of mud could, in fact, be a description of the rafts of pumice left by the catastrophic eruption of an ancient volcano there, little mention is made of Plato's specific account of where Atlantis was or the common root that links Atlantis to the Atlantic ocean. Also omitted is Plato's chronology placing the sinking of Atlantis in the same time frame as the end of the last ice age which caused the inundation of huge expanses of once fertile lands. Is "Atlantis: The Evidence" a thinly disguised example of Eurocentrism in the media? Watch Discovery: Atlantis for a more comprehensive view on an age-old debate.
Thousands of years before the Inca, a megalithic civilization was founded at Lake Titicaca which spread 500 miles to Cuzco, following a global flood that destroyed the Earth in 9000 BC. Its architects — Viracocha and his seven Shining Ones — disappeared as mysteriously as they appeared, yet the legacy of temples they left behind still baffles the modern mind. Filmed at Tiwanaku, Puma Punku, Cuzco, Quenqo, Saqsayhuaman, Amuru Machay, Quillarumiyoc, Pisac, Tombomachay, Huayna Picchu, Ollantaytambo, Machu Picchu, Cutimbo, Silustani and Amaru Meru.
In the mountains of Peru, an environmental scientist discovers ancient artifacts submerged beneath the headwaters of the Amazon; his findings could save this sacred landscape from mining devastation.
Leo Vincey, told by his dying uncle of a lost land visited 500 years ago by his ancestor, heads out with family friend Horace Holly to try to discover the land and its secret of immortality, said to be contained within a mystic fire. Picking up Tanya, a guide's daughter, in the frozen Russian arctic, they stumble upon Kor, revealed to be a hidden civilization ruled over by an immortal queen, called She, who believes Vincey is her long-lost lover John Vincey, Leo's ancestor.
It is possible that only one per cent of the wonders of ancient Egypt have been discovered, but now, thanks to a pioneering approach to archaeology, that is about to change. Dr. Sarah Parcak uses satellites to probe beneath the sands, where she has found cities, temples and pyramids. Now, with Dallas Campbell and Liz Bonnin, she heads to Egypt to discover if these magnificent buildings are really there.
In San Francisco, well-known sportsman Kay Hoog announces to a club that he has found a message in a bottle with a map drawn by a Harvard professor who has gone missing. The map tells of a lost Incan civilization that possesses an immense treasure. Hoog immediately plans an expedition to find it. But Lio Sha, the head of a criminal organization known as the Spiders, is determined to get the treasure for herself and plans a rival expedition.
A team of scientists working to raise a sunken Russian nuclear submarine on an ocean platform off the coast of Miami, Florida, unearth an ancient Atlantean relic from the sea floor and bring in an expert to make some sense of it. But while attempting to raise the sub, radioactive leakage from its missles triggers the re-emergence of Atlantis, and the resulting tidal wave destroys the platform and leaves only a small group of survivors. Rescued by two Vietnamvets-turned-heavies who are out relaxing after their latest job, their boat eventually runs aground on a Carribean island nearby where, upon going ashore, it is discovered that everything has been destroyed and everybody killed. The culprits, a vicious group of well-armed raiders, and their leader, Crystal Skull, are descendants of Atlantis' original race who set about reclaiming the world and adding the survivors to the list of victims as they struggle to stay alive and defeat the raiders and send Atlantis back to the ocean floor.
El 1925 l'explorador britànic Percy Fawcett es va aventurar a l'Amazones a la recerca d'una antiga civilització, l'existència dels quals europeus feia segles que intentaven demostrar. La ciutat perduda es coneixia com a ciutat 'Z', i en la seva recerca havien mort centenars de persones. No obstant això, l'expedició va desaparèixer a la selva, i mai més se'n va tornar a saber res. Cap de les expedicions que han seguit els passos de Fawcett ha aconseguit trobar la ciutat 'Z'.
Una aeronau llisca sobre un mar de núvols en una nit de lluna plena. Muska, un agent secret del govern, acompanya a una noia anomenada Sheeta a la fortalesa de Tedis. Sobtadament la nau és atacada pels pirates que, igual que el govern, busquen el secret de la pedra màgica de levitació que Sheeta porta al voltant del coll. La pedra és la clau que obrirà les portes de la Fortalesa celeste, una illa flotant enmig del cel creada per una misteriosa raça que fa molt de temps va desaparèixer del planeta. Pazu, un noi, es fa amic de la Sheeta i l'ajuda a escapar dels seus perseguidors i junts es disposen a resoldre el misteri de la Fortalesa Celeste. Quan la Sheeta i en Pazu inicien el seu viatge cap a la Fortalesa Celeste, engeguen una cadena d'esdeveniments irreversibles. En aquest misteriós lloc trobaran un tresor molt més gran que el poder de governar el món.
Robert Neville és un científic brillant, però no ha pogut impedir l'expansió d'un terrible virus incurable. En Robert hi és immune i és l'últim supervivent humà a la ciutat de Nova York. Durant tres anys envia cada dia missatges per ràdio buscant altres supervivents.
La lluna controla les nostres nits, els nostres dies, les estacions i les marees oceàniques. Des del començament de la humanitat, les seves fases s’han mantingut com un símbol d’il·luminació, de coneixement intern i de la nostra pròpia immortalitat. Fins ara. Una força misteriosa colpeja a la Lluna i l’envia en xoc directe contra la Terra.