I first saw this movie at the Museum of Science and Industry -- you can get it from
Netflix -- I was floored by the film and want to recommend it. The movie was so great that as soon as I got out I bought another ticket and went right back in to see it again. It's not often I see a movie twice, let alone immediately. It started by showing the original earth continent, Pangaea, dividing, then showed 7 amazing areas on earth -- this is what it showed:
1 Island of MADAGASCAR -- said to have had independent evolution like the Galapagos (for 40 million years) -- unique life forms like the lemur (which eats cactus), the "upside-down" tree and huge chameleons (with tongues as long as their bodies).
2 TIBET -- it's the size of Western Europe yet is all of it at an altitude above the tops of the Rockies. Great shots of Buddhist prayer wheels & flags, monks’ walking meditations, as well as herds of yak (give milk and meat), which have beautiful manes all over their bodies. The temperature there can fall 80 degrees in one day! So people stay bundled up. Sacred lakes there feed Chinese crops.
3 THE AMAZON -- feeds 1,000 !! other rivers, watering 9 nations. Receives direct sunlight all year and is fed by daily thunderstorms in the PM. There are beetles the size of your fist and spiders that walk on water that live there. The macaws and parrots go in flocks to eat clay from wet cliff sides, for the minerals.
4 IGUAZU FALLS, between Brazil and Argentina -- four times the width of Niagara, contains 200 waterfalls all in one place (the encyclopedia even says 270)! Massive cubic miles of water slam through this area.
5 NAMIB DESERT, West Africa -- The movie showed sand dunes over one thousand feet high !! that migrate with the winds, flowing in slow waves. There are actually goats with straight unicorn-like horns (but that are double, and point backward) that can survive these sands. The movie showed pictures of little beetles, scorpions, etc., coming out for moisture, water that only comes in as fog from the sea -- there's never rain. As the insects scuttle along, you clearly see the insect tracks and hear them making them. Really wonderful. This desert ends in the cold South Atlantic and, right on its edge, it has flocks of storks and seals.
6 GREENLAND -- largest island of the world is mainly SUBMERGED and only shows because of the glaciers on it, which calve. On one of the narrow strips of non-iced land that it does have, there are huge, furry musk-oxen. You wonder how these animals got on this icy raft!
7 OKAVANGO RIVER DELTA in Botswana, Africa -- the river does not flow to a sea but empties into the Kalahari desert. You see glorious herds of giraffes, elephants, and an amazing stampede of buffalo that are each of massive size. There are wild dogs there with sparse hair, skinny legs and big ears like a panda. A whole pack of them will have only one pair of dogs give a litter of pups for a given year, and then the pack raises them.
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Again, I loved this movie -- it was tremendous!
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