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- DirectorDoug HamiltonStarsJeffrey L. BadaRuth BlakePeter CoveneyMineralogist Robert Hazen explores the role that rocks may have played in the creation of life on Earth.
- DirectorMark BridgeStarsRichard LinternMike RowePhil PlaitWe're on the verge of unconvering the how life on Earth came to be. Our origin is a hotly contested scientific debate. Did we come from strange volcanic hatcheries deep under the sea? Or did life on Earth come from another planet?
- StarsMorgan FreemanJeffrey L. BadaJennifer BlankScientists explore a variety of ways that life may have formed on earth and try to recreate them.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughJustin MarshallJean-Bernard CaronDavid Attenborough goes back in time to investigate the origins of life.
- DirectorMark MarabellaStarsJeffrey L. BadaDavid DeamerRushmore DeNooyerFrom Hawaii's volcanoes to Greenland's glaciers to meteorites in Australia, teams of international scientists race to solve the mystery of how life first formed on Earth.
- DirectorAlice HarperStarsNeil deGrasse TysonFollowing the formation of the Earth, life didn't waste any time getting started. Scientists explore the evidence and conduct experiments to determine how life could form on the inhospitable early Earth then change to cover the entire Earth.
- DirectorG. Philip JacksonStarsMichael IronsideFrom new space missions identifying alien life-possible om exo-planets, to exotic extremeophiles on Earth as indicators of prospective alien life possible on Jupiter and Saturn's moons,into the deep space SETI program - to conspiracy theorists who believe an earth-alien secret government is behind a "New World Order" This film covers it all. We also look at such beliefs that alien visits intervened in the evolution of mankind millions of years ago. We ask the hard and the fun questions, open minded, special effects heavy, sometimes supported by clips from science-fiction films of your past, but always at the end with scientific perspective and discipline -we cover the ground only opened up now now by these new space probes. Dramatized components in the film look at possible reactions to news of contact between alien forms and humans, from the good, the catastrophic and the benign to the outright funny.
- DirectorTom HewitsonStarsPeter CapaldiMartin ReesProfessor Martin Rees discusses the modern search for extra-terrestrials, and the theory that our idea of alien life is all wrong: that it's not organic life we should look for out there, but machines.
- DirectorSteve AmezdrozStarsLisa KalteneggerMalcolm McDowellCarl SaganJourney from the depths of the Pacific Ocean into the far reaches of space on a quest to find something that changes everything...signs of life, somewhere else in the universe. With cutting-edge imagery from the world's most powerful telescopes, The Search for Life in Space takes audiences from the surface of Mars and the icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn, to the extreme lava fields of Hawaii and thermal vents deep beneath the sea. In these harsh environments, astrobiologists look for clues to how life takes hold. As this immersive adventure into the universe reveals the possibility of planets like ours, The Search for Life in Space will make you re-examine such fundamental questions as: "Where did we come from?", "How did we get here?" and "Are we alone?"
- StarsLaird CloseThis series is a relatively deep quantitative analysis of chances of life (both intelligent and simple) plus living/extinct) in our Milky Way galaxy centered on the Drake equation. It also covers the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (SETI) in a quantitative, relatively impartial manner. This show is not similar to "entertaining" TV shows on this topic. This is much closer to a formal lecture.
- DirectorOliver TwinchStarsAshley DaviesJennifer EigenbrodeJosh EisnerScientists are on the verge of answering one of the greatest questions in history: Are we alone? Finding Life Beyond Earth immerses audiences in the sights and sounds of alien worlds, while top astrobiologists explain how these places are changing how we think about the potential for life in our solar system.
- DirectorMartin WilliamsStarsBenedict CumberbatchStephen Hawking'Are We Alone?' Hawking considers one of the most important mysteries facing humankind - the possibility of alien, intelligent life. He leads us on a journey rendered in eye-popping detail, from the moons of Jupiter to a galaxy maybe not so far, far away. We will meet possible aliens and wonder at their form, we will delve into the very principles of what it is to call something alive, and we will calculate the likelihood of 'contact' being made.
- DirectorTim UsborneStarsDallas CampbellFrank DrakeJill TarterA look at the Drake equation, developed by Dr. Frank Drake as a way to think about the number of extraterrestrial civilizations in our galaxy that could exist and communicate with us.
- DirectorLaura VerklanStarsErik ThompsonSeth ShostakDavid GrinspoonScientists speculate on how life originated on earth based on the range of conditions where life survives today and the conditions that existed on the early earth. They then look for those conditions, past or present, that may exist on other planets or moons.
- DirectorGideon BradshawStarsIan HolmWilliam J. BoruckiFrank DrakeSeries exploring topical scientific issues. The search for extra-terrestrial life has been going for 50 years - but there's been a recent breakthrough. Astronomers have discovered a new planet called Gliese 581 c. It is the most Earth-like planet ever found. It orbits a star and may have habitats capable of supporting life. NASA hopes to find 50 more Earth-like planets by the end of the decade, all of which increases the chance that alien life has begun elsewhere.
- DirectorKensuke KishiKazuhiro KitanoToshihito MatsumotoStarsDeb FialkowOur galaxy alone contains hundreds of billions of stars, giving scientists a vast cosmic frontier to search. Could alien life be looking up at its own sky and asking, "Is there life out there?"
- StarsAndrea Nelson
- DirectorJulia CortMark EverestAlice HarperStarsFrank DrakeNeil deGrasse TysonAstrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson explores whether life is unique to Earth. "The elements essential to life as we know it are widespread throughout the universe," Tyson says, but no extraterrestrial life has yet been found. Why?***