Walking with Monsters (TV Mini Series)
Water Dwellers (2005)
Kenneth Branagh: Narrator
Quotes
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Kenneth Branagh - Narrator : [about Earth's sustenance of life] But who would inherit this blue planet?
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Kenneth Branagh - Narrator : [about the monsters] Amongst them were our own earliest ancestors, whose survival would decide whether we humans would exist at all!
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Kenneth Branagh - Narrator : An epic war for our world, a war between monsters!
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Kenneth Branagh - Narrator : This is our planet, five hundred and thirty million years ago. Nothing yet lives on land, but in the ocean, it's a different story.
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Kenneth Branagh - Narrator : Evolution takes over.
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Kenneth Branagh - Narrator : He may not look like you or I, but this odd fish is becoming the blue print for our own bodies.
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Kenneth Branagh - Narrator : Land at this time is like an alien planet. It's a barren expanse of roasting rock hotter than the Sahara. The air would be toxic to us: it has much less oxygen, and three hundred times more carbon dioxide than today.
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Kenneth Branagh - Narrator : It is the arthropods, and not our ancestors, who have taken the first momentous steps out of the sea onto dry land.
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Kenneth Branagh - Narrator : Brain has triumphed over brawn, and soon, they won't be such soft targets. Evolution starts to give them weapons to fight back.
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Kenneth Branagh - Narrator : They're the first ever true vertebrate landlubbers. The very first reptiles. But as they move inland, they'll face an ancient enemy, more deadly than ever before: the arthropods are back!