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Miracle Planet - The Violent Past
200549 min 53 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Hideki 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.
Over its more than 4-billion-year history, the earth has been home to repeated violent climatic changes, which have caused mass extinctions. And yet, life has survived. In fact, these same catastrophes helped bring about the evolution of life, 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 recounts the profound and gripping story of Earth's mysterious evolution and reveals the surprising roles that sheer chance has played in the development of life.
Narrated by Christopher Plummer, it is an exhilarating virtual tour of our planet's first 4.6 billion years.
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Subject categories
- 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
- Fumihiko Saito
- Toshihiro Muta
- lighting
- Tatsuo Ebisu
- Shigeo Harada
- Alex Endo
- sound
- Naotaka Doi
- Kiyotaka Takahashi
- miniature set
- Yoshihide Okada
- Shinji Yabe
- visual design
- Hirofumi Kurata
- Masao Ozawa
- computer graphics
- Yoshikatsu Date
- Takashi Nishida
- Katsuichi Kimura
- Noriaki Motoumi
- Shigekazu Sakai
- Kazuhisa Watanabe
- visual effects
- Kazuya Fujino
- Naohiro Akanuma
- coordinator
- Yasue Drabble
- Airi Yamawaki
- Hiroko Haruta
- Shiho Sakamoto
- Yuko Tahara
- director
- Hideki Tazuke
- sfx director
- Keizo Izuta
- executive producer
- Éric Michel
- Daisuke Takama
- Yuichi Suwa