The series presents collection of short films about historical events and world-famous personalities: artists and writers, composers and scientists, explorers and philosophers, architects and rulers, educators and reformers. Each 7 minutes episode tells story of person without whom impossible to imagine a civilization today: Archimedes, Aristotle, Alexander the Great, Beethoven, Chopin, Levi Strauss,Nostradamus, Cleopatra, Mona Lisa, Benjamin Franklin, Julius Caesar, Lao Tzu, Hieronymus Bosch, Rembrandt, Vasco da Gama, Galileo Galilei and many others.