Charlton Heston narrates this NBC special built around Michael Cremo and Richard Thompson's claim that mainstream archaeology has buried evidence of human antiquity far older than textbooks allow. The film walks through disputed finds: a metallic vase reportedly blasted out of solid rock at Dorchester, the Coso artifact found inside a geode, and the Paluxy River tracks in Texas where footprints appear alongside dinosaur prints. Geologists and paleontologists explain conventional dating methods on camera, while Cremo and sympathetic researchers argue the fossil record has been selectively curated to fit Darwinian timelines. The special aired on NBC in 1996 and drew immediate fire from the scientific community, several of whom later said their interviews were edited to make them look like they endorsed conclusions they rejected. That controversy became part of the film's afterlife: it was pulled from syndication and is still cited as a case study in how television packages fringe claims as open scientific debate. Whether you watch it as archaeology or as media criticism, the artifacts and the argument around them are the point.