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Miracle Planet - Survival of the Fittest
200549 min 53 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Masatoshi KanekoKeizo IzutaHideki Tazuke
Production: Wally LongulJoanne CarrièreÉric Michel (National Film Board of Canada)Daisuke TakamaYuichi Suwa
A National Film Board of Canada and NHK co-production with Tele Images International, Telepool International and NHK Enterprises 21 Inc., in association with Discovery Channel Canada and The Science Channel.
Our image of the planet Earth is often one of a tender, protective matriarch. Recent scientific findings have led us to revise this notion. "Mother Earth," it seems, has not been such a fond protector, but quite the opposite.
In fact, in its more than 4-billion-year history, our planet has been home to repeated violent climactic changes, which have caused mass extinctions. And yet, these same catastrophes also helped bring about the evolution of life on earth from the simplest microbes to the complexity and diversity that is found on the planet today.
Featuring location footage, interviews with the world's foremost scientists and cutting-edge computer technology, Miracle Planet is a five-part series that recounts the profound and gripping story of Earth's mysterious evolution. Narrated by Christopher Plummer, it also reveals the surprising role that sheer chance has played in the development of life.
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Subject categories
- Animals > Prehistoric Animals
- Archaeology > Prehistoric Life
- History > Prehistory and Evolution
Credits
- narrator
- Christopher Plummer
- conceptor
- Jeremy Hogarth
- editor
- José Heppell
- music
- Daniel Toussaint
- sound design
- Daniel Toussaint
- sound editor
- Mira Mailhot
- Jean-François Sauvé
- re-recording
- Luc Léger
- titles
- Gaspard Gaudreau
- online editor
- Denis Pilon
- post-production co-ordinator
- Jean-Pierre St-Michel
- administrator
- Maryse Chapdelaine
- administrator - assistant
- Isabelle de Bellefeuille
- project coordinator
- Brigitte Couture
- producer
- Wally Longul
- Joanne Carrière
- camera
- Mitsutaka Handa
- Fumihiko Saito
- Toshihiro Muta
- Tomonori Ando
- Tsutomu Shimizu
- lighting
- Tatsuo Ebisu
- Shigeo Harada
- Alex Endo
- sound
- Naotaka Doi
- Kiyotaka Takahashi
- miniature set
- Yoshihide Okada
- Shinji Yabe
- visual design
- Mamoru Nei
- Masao Ozawa
- Hirofumi Kurata
- computer graphics
- Yoshikatsu Date
- Katsuichi Kimura
- Kazuya Takabatake
- Takashi Nishida
- Kazuhisa Watanabe
- Makiko Sugiura
- Kenichi Koyama
- Hidenori Saito
- Akinori Kato
- visual effects
- Kazuya Fujino
- Keita Kataoka
- Yuji Miyasaka
- coordinator
- Maki Ichikawa
- Alex Kent
- Xenia Naka
- Marcia Young
- Yumi Masamoto
- Akira Miyazaki
- Hatem Salah
- Emma Tanimura
- Airi Yamawaki
- Riwa Komatsubara
- Kazuhiro Ishikawa
- Hiroko Haruta
- research
- Shiho Sakamoto
- Yuko Tahara
- director
- Masatoshi Kaneko
- Keizo Izuta
- Hideki Tazuke
- sfx director
- Keizo Izuta
- executive producer
- Éric Michel
- Daisuke Takama
- Yuichi Suwa