DC Planet of Life (1995) Part 1 The Birth of Earth

Earthquakes, volcanoes, ice ages, landslides, floods, life evolution, plate motions—all of these phenomena have interacted over the vast expanses of deep time to sculpt the dynamic planet that we live on today. This Emmy award-winning Discovery Channel series traces the four-billion-year evolutionary history of the world covering the origin and evolution of life on Earth. Each episode covers a separate chapter in the biography of the world, the geological, physical and chemical conditions in which life might arise. Examine the birth, development, and destiny of earth. Series is narrated by Stacy Keach, and produced in conjunction with NHK network.

Part 1: The Birth of Earth

The series begins in The Birth of Earth, with a Mars-sized asteroid hitting Earth's primordial oceans, and we trace the progression of lipidlike molecules to DNA, blue-green algae, and amoebas. From the simplest microorganism to the complex species that is humankind, the evolutionary development of every living creature has been marked by life and death struggles. Now this epic story is chronicled in Planet of Life. Explore the primordial planet and find out how life emerged from a sea of toxins in the Birth of Earth.

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