Fire: How Earth Made Us—The Untold Story of History
Beginning with a mind-boggling stunt that only science or spirituality can justify—a veritable walk through fire—this program examines humankind’s long, complicated relationship with the ravenous power of combustion. Fire was, for millennia, h...
Is there a crisis?: biodiversity in decline
The most striking feature of life on Earth is its richness and variety. But research shows that the planet's biodiversity is seriously threatened with destruction by human activities. From the depths of the oceans to the tops of rainforest canopies,...
The future of life: searching for solutions
At the current rate of resource depletion, humankind stands to lose fully half of Earth's remaining species over the next 100 years. At this crucial point in world history, a choice must be made: will coming generations inhabit a healthy planet or, ...
Why is there a crisis?: environmental exploitation
Extinction is a natural process, and five times in the dim reaches of Earth's long history it has happened on a huge scale. Now, due to human activities, another mass extinction has been set in motion - and it is unfolding at an unprecedented speed....
Wind: How Earth Made Us—The Untold Story of History
Often thought of as nature at its most elusive and chaotic, the wind is actually a function of highly regimented patterns—forces within the Earth’s atmosphere that have shaped the destiny of continents and lie at the heart of some of the greates...
Our planet earth
If Earth's entire history could be compressed into a single year, modern humans would've appeared just 23 minutes ago! Use this video to introduce your students to the concept of geological time (also called deep time); relative age dating of rock v...
Water: How Earth Made Us—The Untold Story of History
Filmed in magnificent locations in Iceland, India, and the Middle East, this program looks at how control over water has been a central factor in human existence. Viewers take a precarious flight in a motorized paraglider to experience the water cyc...
Human Planet: How Earth Made Us—The Untold Story of History
Earth, water, wind, and fire…according to tradition, these four pieces make up the complex puzzle of our world. In the spirit of that tradition, is there a fifth component, one so close and disturbingly powerful that we choose to overlook it? This...
Deep Earth: How Earth Made Us—The Untold Story of History
Throughout history, human settlements and societies have been strangely drawn to fault lines, those mysterious places where the Earth’s crust reveals its tenuous nature, and to other areas that connect the surface of the planet with its deep inter...