Inside Planet Earth

This film covers the planet from top down. Starts with crust, tectonic plates, mountains and Volcanos, etc. Yellowstone Park is just a volcano crater 25 miles across!Moves down to the mantle, explains it is like fudge, slowly stretching and moving the tectonic plates. Shows the ocean plates diving into the mantle, all the way to the core! They send water with them, which causes volcanos. Says that there is much more water in the mantle than in all the oceans. If all the water was on the surface, would cover the mountains! Shows researchers visiting the Lizard Islands in England where mantle rock is on the surface.Covers the outer core of molten iron. This swirles and imparts motion to the mantle, creates earthquakes, volcanoes, etc.Includes the deep iron core. Hot as the surface of the sun. Produces the magnetic field that protects earth and atmosphere from solar radiation. Relates that many astronauts develop cataracts, evidently from solar particles damaging their eyes. I thought the graphic reproducing the interaction of the magnetic field was outstanding. Connects the aurora and the compass. Provides one idea of how the magnetic field is generated in the core. This maybe from tubes of molten iron that create helical structures from the earths rotation. Facinating!All of these sections are done with excellent computer graphics. Spends enough time on each part to capture idea without being repetitive.Watched with my ten year old grandson. We both enjoyed it.

I teach Introductory Geology and Earth Science and am always on the lookout for movies for class. I think this is a good intro for my Geo class. It gives a good overview of the Earth's layers starting all the way from what gravity does for life all the way to the core. The presentation uses excellent graphics while the topics are interesting. I would say this doesn't go in depth on anything and in reality it is a little cursory but it does seem to keep the students attention with interesting little details like amphibians were once the largest predator and the size of alligators. I show particularly for that reason. I'm trying to hook the students interest from the start and this seems to grab some of the borderline students. So if you are looking for a well done, entertaining but also enlightening video on the Earth's internal structure, I recommend this.

If you are as interested in the origins of our planet as I am, this is the DVD for you. You get a scientific and proven demonstration of the creation of the planet Earth (as well as the others) when our Sun took its place in the Milky Way Galaxy some 4.5 billion years ago. Inside Planet Earth brings the history of the planet down to today. Great to know just how special we are and that God placed us in the perfect place around a perfectly sized star in order to be alive and enjoy the gift of this marvelous place we call home. Great DVD and another good buy from Amazon.com.

I teach science to 2nd- through 5th-graders, and my students absolutely love this video. We use it for our units on tectonic plates, earth's geologic history, the origin of life, and also in our unit on magnetism & electricity. It has excellent simulations showing the formation of our solar system, convection currents in the magma that cause the plates to move, the swirling towers in the Earth's core that create our magnetic field, how the magnetic field protects us from the solar wind, the possible origins of life on earth, extreme-o-philes surviving near volcanic vents, and much more good stuff. Patrick Stewart makes a good narrator.

Awesome DVD!!!

Have you ever wondered what’s above us and what’s below us? Journey with Capt. Picard (Sir Patrick Stewart) to the Centre of Our Planet and discover Layer-After-Layer the magnificence of below. Fossils, Crystals, Caves, Water, Oil, Solid Rocks, Molten Rocks and a very active Core. Each step tells you where, how the information to build this Image was obtained, from Oil Wells, Underground water, Mines and Caves. Very Intriguing and Educations.

Great narration, excellent graphics and computer simulations, along with real video. The explanations and theories are thoughtfully enhanced and made clear by way of the computer generated graphics. This presentation will captivate you and inform you at the same time. It leaves you wanting more.

The feature was good, but the special features were even better!

Good watch