The 4.5 Billion-Year Transformation of Planet Earth

This documentary tells the violent and astonishing story of how our planet came to be over four and a half billion years. From a chaotic cloud of dust and collisions to a living world, it explains the strange sequence of events that made Earth uniquely habitable. The film draws on geology and planetary science to reveal a birth far more dramatic than most imagine. Sweeping and clear, it offers a grand timeline of our only home. Free to watch in HD on Dr Documentary.

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