Wonders Of Life (BBC 2013)

Professor Brian Cox explores the globe to reveal how a few fundamental laws of science gave birth to the most complex and unique feature of the universe - life.

Episode 1: What Is Life?



Episode 2: Expanding Universe



Episode 3: Endless Forms Most Beautiful



Episode 4: Size Matters



Episode 5: Home

Thousand Hands Guan Yin Dance

Thousand Hand Guan Yin is a dance created by Chinese choreographer Zhang Jigang. This dance is performed by 63 deaf dancers of the China Disabled People's Performing Art Troupe. Because they cannot hear the music, six conductors in white cloths help them synchronizing with the music. This dance describes the legend that Bodhisattva Guan Yin has one thousand hands. Bodhisattva is a Proto-Buddha. She can not become a Buddha because she is still attached to this world. Her vow: "If there is still a single drop of tear in this world, I will not become a Buddha."

Memory Of Colors

In a polarized world, color is a victory. Photographer Jaime Ocampo Rangel has spent his life chronicling the ways in which native cultures have revered and expressed themselves in color. This film is a small sampling of his monumental work.

Watch here if video doesn't work: Memory of Colors

Video from KarmaTube

Anima Mundi

Anima Mundi is a poetic combination of music and images created from the finest existing footage from the naturalist film field, interwoven with original images and accompanied by a continuous soundtrack composed by Philip Glass based on rhythms and music from the most unspoiled traditional ethnic music.

This work was designed to celebrate the Biological Diversity Campaign of WWF and to create feelings and emotions which, through rich, striking and breathtaking images from Nature may lead its viewers to feel that they are truly a part of the natural world.

The title, 'Anima Mundi', reproposes a concept which, throughout the history of mankind from ancient times, conjures up a harmonic principle controlling the laws of life on earth in all its various forms and relationships. Natural order and beauty are based on differences and the endless variety of species, elements, beings and systems which together form a marvelous balanced and harmonious Whole.

Several ecological themes are firmly based on the idea of anima mundi, which attributes a cosmic breath to the earth. Nature, joyfully venerated for thousands of years by people all over the globe, supports the suffering of its generation simply because it is animated by a deeply rooted and mysterious vital force which justifies everything as well as the position of all elements in the complex order of nature.

Godfrey Reggio, the director of Anima Mundi, translated this concept into images to interpret WWF's campaign on biological diversity: the concept of anima mundi forms the basis of this film and requires a stylistic type of poetic communication, which is both immediately and deeply felt as it emotionally expresses the myriad of meanings contained in this concept, rather than to simply describe and explain them. Godfrey Reggio's intention is that of conjuring up a sense of the force of nature by following a path which goes beyond habit, calling forth the deep rooted and archaic sense of man's 'being a part' of nature.

Part 2

Naitre Enchantée (Enchanted Birth)

At the end of pregnancy, the nourishing task of the belly comes to an end. The baby can now leave the cosy nest. The contractions become more intense. The increasing and extraordinary power of the body helps mother and child with the birth and to open the uterus. If we realize that the labor and contractions pave the way to Life, then they become an intimate, sacred and divine friend. A specific preparation by means of sound and vibration, helps to alleviate the pain during the birth process.

Deep Ocean Mysteries And Wonders

In the deepest, darkest parts of the oceans are ecosystems with more diversity than a tropical rainforest. Taking us on a voyage into the ocean -- from the deepest trenches to the remains of the Titanic -- marine biologist David Gallo explores the wonder and beauty of marine life.

The Universe

This Known Universe is a celestial presentation of profound significance because the Stars, Planets, and the Cosmos depicted in this video is really accurate at this point.



This is the latest incarnation of the HDF video. The narration has been edited to include research from a paper in Physical Review Letters (2004) which puts the size of the universe at 46.5 billion light years, not 78 billion as I originally stated.



Beautiful music from Beethoven + beautiful images from Hubble telescope = 8 beautiful minutes.



The Biggest Stars in the Universe, comparison of planet Sizes, Star Sizes, Life in the Universe,..

What a wonderful world

BBC One - Christmas 2011 & Richard Attenborough

The Temples Of Humankind

The Temples of Humankind are an underground work of art, created entirely by hand and dedicated to the divine nature of humanity. It is a great three dimensional book which recounts the history of Humankind through all the art forms, a path of re-awakening to the Divine inside and outside of ourselves.

Damanhur Temples

Give Earth A Hand

How often have we allowed ourselves to be consumed by our wants? As this video shows, the earth needs a hand to achieve a sustainable future.

The Beauty Of Pollination

We are all dependent to each other.

Meghalayas' Living Bridge

A bridge in Meghalaya constructed by the living roots of Fig Trees

Life Of Flowers

Adagio From Spartacus (Aram Khachaturian)

The Bolshoi Ballet's Irek Mukhamedov as Spartacus and Lyudmilla Semenyaka as Phrygia, performing my favorite scene. So lovely.

Louie Schwartzberg: Gratitude

Louie Schwartzberg is an award-winning cinematographer, director, and producer whose notable career spans more than three decades providing breathtaking imagery for feature films, television shows, documentaries and commercials.

Of Forests And Men

To commemorate 2011 as the International Year of Forests, the United Nations appointed Yann Arthus-Bertrand to create a short video to raise consciousness about forests. Using stunning aerial photography and video footage, the producer (whose previous online movie was seen by 400 million people) has done it again.

Nature By Numbers

A movie inspired on numbers, geometry and nature, by Cristóbal Vila.