Guns, Germs, and Steel

Based on the anthropological book Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies is a documentary Miniseries produced by the National Geographic going by the name of Guns, Germs, and Steel. The documentary covers the theories in the book on why a disparity between civilizations exists as such that there are people living in an industrialized society while at the same time there are still people with primitive lifestyles.

Produced by and starring the author of the book Jared Diamond (as himself) as he goes around the world trying to figure out why the world in the present day is unequal with one civilization more advanced than the other. Diamond went to New Guinea originally to study about the birds when in his trips, one of his New Guinean friends asked him an Armor-Piercing Question: "Why do white people have so much cargo, but we New Guineans have so little?" Diamond found he question that seemed simple at first to be much more complicated and thus went on his journey to figure out the answer to the question.

In between Diamond's journey, the theories was slowly explained throughout a re-enactment of historical events from Ancient Middle East to the Spanish conquest of the Americas to the European colonization of Africa.

Tropes found in the documentary:

 * Armor-Piercing Question: What made Diamond go through his journey in the first place.
 * Badass Spaniard: The Spanish conquistadors, who easily defeats the outnumbering Incas.
 * Infant Immortality: Shown when the Zulus massacred a Boer family. Everyone died, except the baby.
 * Series Of The Book