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DVD

Wonders of the solar system

Author

Brian Cox

Call Number

  • DVD 523.2 W8728 (CEN)

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Edition

Widescreen version.

Languages

English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired.

Performers

Presented by Brian Cox.

Publication Information

London : BBC Worldwide Ltd. ; Burbank, CA : Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video, c2010.

Physical Description

3 videodiscs (ca. 293 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

Explores some of the most amazing features of our very own solar system, how the forces of nature carved out beauty and order from the chaos of space, how our home planet doesn't sit in magnificent isolation but is intimately connected with the rest of the solar system, and how these connections have created the haven we call Earth.

Notes

Disc 3 special features are two Horizon programs hosted by Brian Cox.

Contents

  • disc 1. Empire of the sun
  • Order out of chaos
  • The thin blue line
  • disc 2. Dead or alive
  • Aliens
  • disc 3. Special features: What on earth is wrong with gravity?
  • Do you know what time it is?

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