LIFE'S GREATEST MIRACLE - DVD-NOVA

Details

• Release Year: 2001
• Genre: Documentary
• Plot: NOVA collaborates with Swedish scientific photographer Lennart Nilsson to use breathtaking new footage and state-of-the-art computer animation to show - in more complete detail than ever before - the making of a human life. Among the stunning sequences shot by Nilsson is the incredible voyage of the sperm toward the egg. Other events captured in Life?s Greatest Miracle include the journey of the fertilized ovum down the fallopian tube, the hatching of the embryo from its confining shell on day six, and the miraculous transformation of an embryo from a ball of cells into three layers from which all the body?s organs will emerge.
• Cast: John Lithgow; Sarah Holt; Gary Glassman; Kirk Wolfinger; Brian Kaufman; Liesl Clark; Carl Charlson; Larry Klein; Doug Hamilton; Miles O'Brien; Duncan Copp; Chris Schmidt; Rushmore DeNooyer; Daniel McCabe; Oliver Twinch; Mark Davis; Ian Duncan; Graham Townsley; Terri Randall; Thomas Lucas; David Dugan; Joseph McMaster; Julia Cort; Kate Dart; Peter Yost; Stuart Harris; Neil Goodwin; Garfield Kennedy; Peter Jones; Scott Willis; Jackie Mow; Alice Harper; Peter Chinn; Gail Willumsen; Joseph Seamans; Brian Leckey; Nick Clarke Powell; Paula Apsell; Robert Zalisk; Larry Engel; Jon Palfreman; Marian Marzynski; Denise DiIanni; Linda Garmon; Larkin McPhee; Thierry Ragobert; Noel Buckner; Rob Whittlesey; Elizabeth Arledge; Malcolm Clark; Marc Jampolsky; Jeremy Llewellyn-Jones; Nick Davidson; David Axlerod; David Hickman; Callum Macrae; Gary Hochman; Thomas Levenson; Gary Johnstone; Christian Cascio; Ben Fox; John Hayes Fisher; David Sington; Llewellyn M. Smith; Gisela Kaufmann; Michael Beckham; Louise Lockwood; John Rubin; Stéphane Bégoin; Scott Tiffany; Chad Cohen; Michael Bicks; David Murdock; Nathan Williams; Jonathan Challis; Anna Lee Strachan; Vincent Liota; Ian Bremner; Dick Bower; Olivier Julien; Gwyn Williams; Giulia Clark; Martin Gorst; Mick Jackson; John Borden; Francis Gladstone; Horst Stern; John Lynch; Sheila Hayman; Bo Gustaf Erikson; Carol O. Lofman; Marty Ostrow; James Lipscomb; Robin Bates; Robert Dalva; Susanne Simpson; Veronica L. Young; Jeremy Taylor; Mitchell Koss; Henry Corra; Mike Slee; Eric Stange; Denise DiAnni; John Miles; Tina Dalton; Ric Esther Bienstock; Suzanne Campbell-Jones; Andy Jillings; Mike Rossiter; Ingrid Geser; Beth Hoppe; Ian McCarthy; Jonathan Sahula; Simon Singh; Andrew Snell; David Spence; Tony Stark; Caroline Toth; Jeff Turner; Dick Bartlett; David Breashears; Bob Burns; Robert H. Gardner; Cynthia Page; Joel Olicker; Tetsunori Kikuchi; Shinichi Murata; Adrian Pennick; Leslie Woodhead; Henry Chancellor; Chris Durlacher; Adam English; Nancy Linde; Gianfranco Pannone; Stephen Sweigart; Marco Visalberghi; Peter Williams; DAVID BELTON; David McNab; Philip Smith; Michael Jorgensen; Celia Lowenstein; Peter Nicholson; Hugh Thomson; Liz Tucker; Mark Davies; Dimitri Doganis; Howard Green; Jacinth O'Donnell; Nancy Porter; Lara Acaster; Amir Amirani; Kate Bartlett; Carolyn Davey; Antoine de Maximy; Jonathan Dent; Ellen Hovde; Joe Kennedy; Muffie Meyer; Chris Oxley; Alex Williamson; Caroline Wrinch; Brian Breger; Jemima Harrison; Chantal Hébert; Louise Osmond; Caroline Penry-Davey; Andreas Sawall; Carolyn Bertram; Clay Bryce; Steve Greenwood; Ingo Helbig; Steven Latham; Nigel Paterson; Jérôme Raynaud; Emily Roe; Stuart Scowcroft; John Wate; Lisa Quijano Wolfinger; Ruth Berry; Amy Bucher; Gilles Cayatte; Andreas Dirr; Bill Jersey; David Lebrun; Simon Nasht; Michael Schwarz; Mary Olive Smith; Annamaria Talas; Charles Colville; Serena Davies; Nicholas de Pencier; Noel Dockstader; James Barrat; Nick Evans; Jörg Daniel Hissen; Heinz Leger; Tom Stubberfield; Hirotsugu Daikai; David Huntley; Nozomu Ishida; Graham Judd; Haruna Kimura; Randall MacLowry; Kyoko Matsubara; Tetsuji Miyagawa; Toshiyuki Ono; Josh Rosen; Kenny Scott; Takeshi Shibasaki; David Shadrack Smith; Sabin Streeter; Toshiyuki Takano; Yuzo Wada; Andy Awes; Eleanor Grant; Ben Shackleford; Keisuke Hatate; David Hutt; Tomohiro Inoue; Taro Ishii; Martin O'Collins; Atsuki Yamazaki; Matt Barrett; Ben Bowie; Tom Cook; Adam Geiger; Nick Green; Edward Hart; Paul Olding; Sonya Pemberton; Tristan Quinn; Christopher Riley; Graham Russell; Guy Smith; Andrew Thompson; Colin Campbell; Pascal Cuissot; Jon Eastman; Ben Finney; Gaby Hornsby; Sally Ingleton; Peter Oxley; Owen Palmquist; Richard Reisz; Nic Young; Phil Bertelsen; Bonnie Brennan; James Brundige; Harvey Lilley; Joby Lubman; Niobe Thompson; Peter Fison; Nick Gillam-Smith; Ben Lawrie; Steve Morgan; Mat Stimpson; François-Xavier Vives; Ross Young; Brian Greene; Rocky Collins; Jonathan Grupper; Nigel Henbest; James Bamford; Bebe Nixon; Bettina Lerner; Stephen Lyons; Michael Winship; David Attenborough; Adrian Pennink; Daniel Hart; Richard Hudson; Steven Reich; David Smith; Timothy Smith; Patrick Griffin; Sari Sapir; Alec Nisbett; Dick Boydell; Eileen Zalisk; Tony Edwards; Hank Whittemore; David McCullough; Molly Bedell; Bill Kurtis; Sandy Medoff; Irv Drasnin; Bill Lattanzi; Charles Passerman; Sheila Hairston; David Hannan; Joseph Levine; Kate O'Sullivan; Simon Campbell-Jones; Thomas Friedman; Malcolm Gladwell; Jack McDonald; Daniel Rondeau; Susan Western; Tim Haines; Susan K. Lewis; Catherine Rubin; Sophie Cooper; Jeremy Hogarth; Mitsuhiko Imamori; Satoko Saito; Jonathan Wickham; Bo G. Erickson; Christopher Rawlence; Jonathan Renouf; Dava Sobel; Kelly Tyler; Judith Vecchione; Kate Hudec; Paul Tucker; Hartmut Schwenk; Ronald Blumer; David Bodanis; Alberto Santos Dumont; William Hicklin; Andre Jurieux; Claude Lazlo; Gay Mohrbacher; Evan I. Schwartz; Claude Valenta; Michael D. Coe; Alan Kwan; Tacita Morway; Tom Shachtman; jennifer Beman White; Sean B. Carroll; John Goldsmith; Sue Halpern; Kim Shillinglaw; Klaus Feichtenberger; Richard Burke-Ward; David Elisco; Robert Strange; Wayne Dyer; Oliver Morse; Sean Varley; Mark Olshaker; Fanny Burdino; Sylvain Pascaud; Linda Harrar; Simon Bennett; Victoria Coules; Douglas J. Emlen; David Condon; Mark Hobson; Lisa Leombruni; Maria Awes
• Director: Sarah Holt
• Runtime: 1:00
• Company: WGBH Boston, PBS Home Video
• Media Format: Series