This National Geographic documentary summarizes the history of the Earth, following a time span from when the Earth was first formed up until today.

The documentary film “The Privileged Planet” describes the amazingly finely tuned array of factors necessary for the planet Earth to be able to sustain complex life, showing that the odds of such a combination occurring even in the vastness of the known Universe is essentially impossible.

Most people wouldn’t think to question Darwin’s theory of evolution, however the theory breaks down when traced back far enough in time due to it initially requiring the existence of extremely complicated cell structures that are capable of reproducing themselves and passing on encoded genetic information.

This documentary entitled “Unlocking the Mystery of Life” describes this issue using high quality computer animations.  View the trailer on this page, which also contains links to view the documentary on Amazon Streaming and to purchase the video from Illustra media.