PBS is kicking off Black History Month with a three-part, six-hour documentary called Africa’s Great Civilizations. The documentary hosted by scholar and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is set to premiere on Feb. 27.

According to the PBS press release, the documentary will give “a new look from an African perspective at African history, traversing the dawn of mankind to the dawn of the 20th century. The series is a breathtaking and personal journey through history that includes evidence of the earliest human culture and art, arguably the world’s greatest ever civilizations and kingdoms, and some of the world’s earliest writing.”

The series will air over three nights beginning Feb. 27 at 9 p.m. EST. Watch a trailer for Africa’s Great Civilizations series below:

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