Amazing Earth (Discovery Channel Video)
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• Closed-captioned
• Color
• Original recording reissued
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Amazing Earth (Discovery Channel Video) Customer Reviews
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a remarkable collection of images and words
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I saw this two-part documentary a couple of years ago and swore I'd buy the DVD, and forgot. Saw it again recently, swore again, and bought it just now !! This has to be the best high-level summary of the creation, development, and workings of our planet around. The images are just gorgeous, the narrative scripting intelligent and just plain poetic at times, and the delivery by Stewart, arguably the best documentary narrator around now, just perfect. The words draw us into the images and the images made us want to hear more words.
A beautiful place born and sustained thru the chance forces of nature, our Earth. It matters not that the science is uncertain at times, nor that we know less about these forces than we might wish to. We have enough of a plausible outline of this history here to buy the partial story we as humans have.
Particularly stunning to this 55+ year resident of the San Francisco Bay Area who has rarely lived more than 40 miles from the Golden Gate Bridge was the image of future waters rising to envelop our beloved coddled structure not because of puny humans but because of nature. That really finishes bringing the story home to this viewer. I think we need the additional reminder Amazing Earth brings us - it is not we who are in charge, it's nature.
Highly recommended.
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