Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #993 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-01-14
• Rating: Exempt
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 2

DVD Description
In this landmark BBC series, Dr Iain Stewart tells the story of how our planet works and how, over the course of 4.6 billion years, it came to be the remarkable planet it is today.

Examining the great forces that shape the earth - volcanoes, the ocean, the atmosphere and ice - the programme explores their central roles in our planet's story. How do these forces affect the earth's landscape, its climate, and its history? CGI gives the audience a ringside seat at these great events, while the final episode brings together all the themes of the series and argues that earth is an exceptionally rare kind of planet - giving us a special responsibility to look after our unique world.

This is a series that shows the earth in new and surprising ways. Extensive use of satellite imagery reveals new views of our planet, while time-lapse filmed over many months brings the planet to life.

Offering a balance between dramatic visuals and illuminating facts, specialized imaging and gripping narrative, this ground-breaking series makes global science truly compelling.

Synopsis
Innovative programme that utilises specialist imaging and a compulsive narrative to illustrate the workings of our planet and goes some way into highlighting the reasons why Earth is so special.

Customer Reviews

Amazing
this is by far the best most interesting documentary i have ever seen and is amazing from start to finish

The power of the BBC natural history programme
When you see that a natural history programme has been created by the BBC you expect a high quality production. This one sends shivers down your spine in places due to superb cinematography and is no exception to the rule.

Simply fantastic
It's really an amazing series of documentaries. Dr Iain Stewart is very enthusiastic and it's great to see and hear people like him, even more on this kind of scientific topics. I ordered the DVDs without having seen the documentaries on TV. I was looking for something about our home planet, the way it was formed, shaped and still is, about the elements and their effects, something about the earth itself, something complementary to Deep Blue and Planet Earth. With that series, I've found what I was looking for. It's not just about global warming, whether natural or not. It's about our world in which we live even if where we are we can't see it because of all the concrete around us.