Zoo Quest in Colour (2016)
Género : Documental
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 30M
Director : Anuschka Schofield
Sinopsis
Thanks to a remarkable discovery in the BBC's film vaults, the best of David Attenborough's early Zoo Quest adventures can now be seen as never before - in colour - and with it the remarkable story of how this pioneering television series was made. First broadcast in December 1954, Zoo Quest was one of the most popular television series of its time and launched the career of the young David Attenborough as a wildlife presenter. Zoo Quest completely changed how viewers saw the world - revealing wildlife and tribal communities that had never been filmed or even seen before. Broadcast 10 years before colour television was seen in the UK, Zoo Quest was thought to have been filmed in black and white, until now. Using this extraordinary new-found colour film, together with new behind-the-scenes stories from David Attenborough and cameraman Charles Lagus, this special showcases the very best of Zoo Quest to West Africa, Zoo Quest to Guiana and Zoo Quest for a Dragon in stunning HD colour.
Un padre divorciado trata de establecerse, impresionar a su hijo y encontrar su destino. Él se presenta para un trabajo como vigilante nocturno en el Museo Americano de Historia Natural de la ciudad de Nueva York y, posteriormente, descubre que los objetos expuestos, animados por un artefacto mágico de Egipto, vuelven a la vida durante la noche. Al principio le va muy mal tratando de mantener el orden y la calma en el museo, pero al final se vuelve muy buen amigo de todos y juntos ayudan a recuperar aquel artefacto mágico egipcio, ya que ha sido robado por los antiguos vigilantes del museo.
La tabla de Ahkmenrah, la que hace que las estatuas de los museos cobren vida, está perdiendo su magia. En un intento desesperado para proteger el valioso tesoro, Larry Daley viajará junto a sus amigos Theodore Roosevelt -Robin Williams en su última película-, el faraón Ahkmenrah, Atila, Jebediah Smith, Augustus Octavius y Sacagawea desde Nueva York hasta Londres. Allí intentarán contactar con alguien del Museo de Londres que les ayude a restaurar la magia y conocerán a Sir Lancelot y otros personajes del antiguo Egipto.
La gran visión de Darwin, que la vida ha evolucionado durante millones de años por selección natural, ha sido la piedra angular de todas las series de historia natural de David Attenborough. En este documental, nos lleva a un viaje profundamente personal que refleja su propia vida y la forma en que llegó a entender la teoría de Darwin.
Vivimos en un planeta extraordinario, hogar de más cinco millones de especies, todas con un mismo objetivo, garantizar su supervivencia.
En este especial te contaremos 14 mil millones de años de historia, a través de un viaje rápido de 120 minutos, desde el principio del tiempo hasta la actualidad, haciendo escala para explorar los puntos de inflexión, momentos históricos y las extraordinarias conexiones entre el pasado lejano y nuestra vida cotidiana. Esta es una nueva forma de ver la historia del universo, el planeta Tierra y la humanidad: el surgimiento de la vida, el avance del hombre y el crecimiento de la civilización.
An African narrator tells the story of earth history, the birth of the universe and evolution of life. Beautiful imagery makes this movie documentary complete.
Earth teems with a staggering variety of animals, including 9,000 kinds of birds, 28,000 types of fish, and more than 350,000 species of beetles. What explains this explosion of living creatures—1.4 million different species discovered so far, with perhaps another 50 million to go? The source of life's endless forms was a profound mystery until Charles Darwin brought forth his revolutionary idea of natural selection. But Darwin's radical insights raised as many questions as they answered. What actually drives evolution and turns one species into another? To what degree do different animals rely on the same genetic toolkit? And how did we evolve?
Featuring Michael Pollan and based on his best-selling book, this special takes viewers on an exploration of the human relationship with the plant world -- seen from the plants' point of view. Narrated by Frances McDormand, the program shows how four familiar species -- the apple, the tulip, marijuana and the potato -- evolved to satisfy our yearnings for sweetness, beauty, intoxication.
A documentary series from Channel 4, hosted by professor Richard Dawkins, well-known darwinist. The series mixes segments on the life and discoveries of Charles Darwin, the theory of natural selection and evolution, and Dawkins' attempts at convincing a group of school children that evolution explains the world around us better than any religion.
Geologist Ian Stewart explain in three stages of natural history the crucial interaction of our very planet's physiology and its unique wildlife. Biological evolution is largely driven bu adaptation to conditions such as climate, soil and irrigation, but biotopes were also shaped by wildlife changing earth's surface and climate significantly, even disregarding human activity.
Thanks to a remarkable discovery in the BBC's film vaults, the best of David Attenborough's early Zoo Quest adventures can now be seen as never before - in colour - and with it the remarkable story of how this pioneering television series was made. First broadcast in December 1954, Zoo Quest was one of the most popular television series of its time and launched the career of the young David Attenborough as a wildlife presenter. Zoo Quest completely changed how viewers saw the world - revealing wildlife and tribal communities that had never been filmed or even seen before. Broadcast 10 years before colour television was seen in the UK, Zoo Quest was thought to have been filmed in black and white, until now. Using this extraordinary new-found colour film, together with new behind-the-scenes stories from David Attenborough and cameraman Charles Lagus, this special showcases the very best of Zoo Quest to West Africa, Zoo Quest to Guiana and Zoo Quest for a Dragon in stunning HD colour.
A documentary showcasing the world's many different animal species, both past and present.
Darwin desató una nueva visión de la naturaleza y la evolución de las especies, que hizo añicos la visión tradicional del mundo armonioso creado por Dios. Descubre este desafío contra las creencias tradicionales, que fue una lucha personal de Darwin.
En este documental, filmado originalmente y exhibidos en alta definición de formato de película de IMAX, Ocean Orígenes explora el mundo natural del mar, desde el organismo unicelular a formas más complejas de la vida. Mediante la combinación de técnicas de fotografía macro y micro, con material documental fascinante, esta película creativa examina una variedad de teorías científicas , Ocean Orígenes nos invita a una aventura extraordinaria - 4 mil millones de años de la evolución en los océanos del mundo. Este documental tiene por objeto examinar el proceso de evolución al mirar las muchas criaturas del mar que ilustran la manera en la vida multicelular ha surgido en miles de millones de años.
Una aventura espectacular en los cinco continentes y en el tiempo para revelar el secreto más vital de la naturaleza.
In this DVD, Mr. Riddle shares the results of his much reading and research in the area of Carbon 14 dating, and explains the importance of Carbon 12 in conjunction with C-14. He explains in simple terms the molecular breakdown process. He also discusses other dating methods and the underlying assumptions the methods are based on, the correctness of which are brought into question. Mike is an interesting and dynamic speaker. His visual aids are excellent. Mike Riddle has degrees in mathematics and education. He's a former Marine, national decathlon champion, former technical specialist and manager for Microsoft, and teacher at ICR's graduate school.
Many geneticists and archaeologists have long surmised that human life began in Africa. Dr. Spencer Wells, one of a group of scientists studying the origin of human life, offers evidence and theories to support such a thesis in this PBS special. He claims that Africa was populated by only a few thousand people that some deserted their homeland in a conquest that has resulted in global domination.
An artistic animated short showing the life in secondary school.
The Scorpions belong to the oldest land-based arachnides with over 1800 different species known to exist. Usually, they do not surpass the size of 10cm in length, but exceptions are know, such as the Emperor Scorpion (Pandinus imperator) which can grow up to become over 20cm in size. Scorpions are mostly active at night and hide away during the day. Take a look into the live of these amazing creatures!
