Earth Story
1998 • BBC
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Season 1 episodes (8)
1 The Time Travellers
11/1/98
Season-only
Aubrey Manning finds out how old our planet is and what it looked like when it was newly formed.
2 The Deep
11/8/98
Season-only
Aubrey Manning follows a submarine dive to the world's longest mountain range, a mile underwater, to see how volcanoes shape the continents.
3 Ring of Fire
11/15/98
Season-only
Billions of years ago Earth was covered by a single ocean. Today nearly a third of the land is dry. Aubrey Manning follows a trail of clues from Bolivia to Alaska and New Zealand to find out how the change came about.
4 Journey to the Centre of the Earth
11/22/98
Season-only
Among the active volcanos of Hawaii and Iceland, Aubrey Manning uncovers events deep within the planet that have reshaped the surface. What drives the Earth's restless volcanic activity?
5 The Roof of the World
12/6/98
Season-only
Mountains are among the most spectacular features of our planet. Aubrey Manning looks at an extraordinary theory about how they rise and fall.
6 The Big Freeze
12/13/98
Season-only
Aubrey Manning traces the history of the Ice Age. The tranquility of Switzerland conceals a violent past - 12,000 years ago the Alps were buried under three kilometers of ice.
7 The Living Earth
12/20/98
Season-only
Aubrey Manning travels to the jungles of Indonesia, the Rocky Mountains in Canada, the gorges of Western Australia and the African plains to illustrate that geology has a direct impact on evolution.
8 A World Apart
12/27/98
Season-only
Why is Earth a living planet when Mars is a deep freeze and Venus an inferno? The answer to this question reveals the intimate links between Earth and life itself.
About this show
Earth Story unravels the secrets of our planet and brings it alive. Combining live-action footage with state-of-the-art computer graphics which enable us to travel back and forwards through time, this is a fantastic journey of scientific discovery and a comprehensive history of life - in all its forms - on the planet.
Ratings and reviews
5.0
3 reviews
Anthony Wood
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May 16, 2022
This is an exceptional introduction to geology for the general public. It takes you slowly through simple steps that all makes sense. 1998 is quite old for a documentary, but not really compared to geological timescales.