The Earliest Years of Earth's 4.6 Billion Year History

This documentary journeys back through the earliest chapters of Earth's 4.6 billion year story, spanning the Hadean, Archean and Proterozoic eons. It reconstructs a molten young planet, the arrival of oceans and the first fragile forms of ancient life. Drawing on geology and deep-time science, it shows how the world was slowly made habitable long before complex creatures appeared. Sweeping yet grounded, it makes an almost unimaginable stretch of history feel vivid and comprehensible. Free to watch in HD on Dr Documentary.

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