Movie Description:
Earth is an incredible, exceptional planet with an amazing life story full of cataclysmic disasters, eleventh-hour coincidences that saveit from extinction, and an astonishing power to continually regenerate. This landmark series uses breathtaking footage andspecialist imaging to tell the story of the great forces that shape the planet-volcanoes, the ocean, the atmosphere and ice. Travelling fromEthiopia`s unique lava lake to an ice cave under a glacier in Greenland and a host of amazing locations in between, we examine the forces thathave helped create and foster life on Earth-from the volcaniceruptions that shape the land to the development of the unique formula of the air thatwe breathe. We discover how these forces have no always been benevolent: the ocean belched poisonous gas into the atmosphere; encased in ice, theearth nearly froze to death; and a great meteorite strike helped to drive the dinosaurs to extinction. Yet, through each disaster the planet,aided by lucky breaks, has steered its own recovery and sustained life. Can it continuethis astonishing fight for survival or is mancontributing to the Earth`s inevitable destruction?
