Review: The Privileged Planet | Helder, M. 2004.
CS Dialogue 31(4):3. CELD ID 19954Abstract Illustra Media, the producers of the widely acclaimed video Unlocking the Mystery of Life, have now released another excellent documentary. This hour long program entitled The Privileged Planet, does for astronomy fans what the earlier video did for biologists. This new release features beautiful photography and also many computer animated images of space. Despite all this, The Privileged Planet does not quite achieve the pizzaz of the Unlocking the Mystery of Life video. This is perfectly understandable however when one considers that astronomy is more remote from everyday life, so that the concepts are less familiar. Another interesting feature of this video is the commentary by well known experts like astronomer Robert Jastrow and Donald Brownlee (co-author with Peter Ward of the book Rare Earth).
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