The History of Earth (HD - 720P)

Imagine cameras have been around since the creation of Earth to record every major event.

Take a photographic journey thorough time from the violent birth of our planet four and a half billion years ago, through ice-ages, massive volcanic eruptions and the dinosaurs' reign to the first humans. For the first time, see the incredible story of our planet unfold in one single, seamless camera move.

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[kdizzyyezzirr]

Anyone else likes watching documentaries right before they sleep or to help them sleep?

[liojubadu]

I'm glad the cameraman survived through all of this, great footage

[shahzadaayub]

Who else feels like living through the mesmerizing journey of 4 billion years in one and a half hours? Incredible!

[metaversian]

Narrator: It's so hot and toxic, that if we got any closer we'd be incinerated and suffocated in seconds.


The camera man: Hold my beer.

[bzgallery]

i feel so lucky to be here and realize that living in this world is an opportunity that i will treasure forever.

[Laurian]

anybody else feel sad that we cannot see how life will be in a few million years?

[meowbhai]

1 billion years later: 'these primitive creatures called human walked the earth'

[tomwilliams]

It's just a child from another dimension playing with his chemistry set.

[MattJohno]

I've got to be honest, I saw this years back and it got me hooked on the way planets form and all that jazz. I've probably watched THIS documentary at least twenty times since. Everything from the music to the CGI made this possibly my favourite documentary of all time. I also love how this is as if it's in first person, and as if you were put into these situations.
It also taught me to treat this planet with more respect. 4.5 billion years of natural work shouldn't be choked to death by Carbon Dioxide. I also love the fact that there are no random interviews every two minutes.

[Pradeepa_Pandiyan]

This is the best ever visual documentary I had seen of our Earth's history! This should always exist on internet!

[elizabethharvester]

This was absolutely fantastic! Thank you for making this accessible to people on the internet

[salvadorprieto]

This can either make you feel insignificant or very special, its what you learn and put into perspective

[alexanderguryanov]

Hello from Russia! Thank you for the video. Such documentaries are the best instruments for self-education and eradication of ignorance widespread all over the world.

[Vyugtyutg]

This is beautifully written and displayed. Very well done NatGeo.

[barromoto]

I don't know why, but this video helps me to sleep.

[nathanhirschberg]

Watching this high is the greatest thing I’ve done to date.

[CIMO]

One of the best documentaries I've seen, props to all involved in the study and making of this must see lesson.

[giannigibbs]

4:31 - Felt so real and scary. Incredible animation.

[Alex]

If this truly is the case, I believe there is an infinite amounts of earths being created through the galaxy going through this exact same process it just happens every few billion years.

[neiladamson]

I like these documentaries with animation, crammed in facts, and a soothing voice ; rather than the current trend of a statement being made and then physicists reiterating the same message (like as the 'how the universe works' docs and many others. Hopefully once James Webb goes up we can have a revised documentary detailing all the potential habitable planets.