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(This landmark series uses specialist imaging and compelling narrative to tell the life story of our planet, how it works, and what makes it so special. 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 timelapse filmed over many months brings the planet to life. Offering a balance between dramatic visuals and illuminating facts, this ground-breaking series makes global science truly compelling.
Average rating (5 reviews)
The best BBC DVD I have seen ever.
NorwegianScience | 01/02/2008 | See all NorwegianScience's reviews (1) »
This DVD should be seen by everyone into politics, education and all students and professors, and all the rest.
Explain very clearly about disasters and the forces volcanos, atmose, ice, oceans act upon the earth. Also the disasters humans will create that will kill all life on earth.
Very basic stuff
RobertRobot | 24/01/2008 | See all RobertRobot's reviews (2) »
Too many CGI effects and a very simplistic repetitive script. Made all the worse by Iain Stewart's terrible voice and limited vocabulary - almost everything that appears is described as "incredible" and/or "amazing" with every adjective stressed so strongly that you wonder if Ian's parents have some sort of hearing difficulty that makes him talk the way he does. It wears very thin after about 15 minutes.
The information in the series could be compressed into about 30 minutes of good writing and the excellent photography could be left to speak for itself much more, with the dull CGI padding left out completely.
Dumbed-down geology.
FANTASTIC
DanFazza | 31/12/2007 | See all DanFazza's reviews (2) »
I saw this advertised on the telly and only decided to watch it because of the fantastic graphics but I AM SO GLAD that I did watch it! It made me realise what an amazing planet we live on and just how beautiful it is, when the programme finished I couldn't speak because of the impact the programme had on me! I just wish that everybody could have seen it, it also made me realise just how insignificant us human beings are against the power of nature. The one thing that Iain Stewart said that stuck with me was when he said that even when we breathe air we take it for granted: WE TAKE EVRYTHING FOR GRANTED! I really have started to realise that life is way too short and the only way we can appreciate the beauty and power of the planet is by living fully! Iain Stewart I salute you.
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Region 2 - Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players. |
