NOVA - The Miracle of Life

NOVA - The Miracle of Life
by Mikael Agaton

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Actor: Bo Moller, David Ogden Stiers, Hans Wigzell, Hans-Jochen Lunemann, Klaus Renner
Director: Mikael Agaton
Brand: WGBH BOSTON VIDEO
Cinematographer: Graeme McBride
Producer: Mikael Agaton
Writer: Mikael Agaton
Producer: Beth Hoppe
Producer: Bo G. Erickson
Producer: Lars Rengfelt
Producer: Melanie Wallace
Producer: Paula Apsell
Producer: Thomas Friedman
Writer: Thomas Friedman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: Academy Ratio, 1.33:1
Running Time: 186 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-03-28
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: WGBH Boston

DVD Reviews of NOVA - The Miracle of Life

DVD Review: The Miracle of Life
Summary: 5 Stars

This is an amazing video. It has eight parts to it that takes you through the process of how a child is created from DNA to the birth. I had this video when I had my first child who is now 21 and I purchased this one for a friend and she loved it.

It's a great video to watch and show your kids (reasonable age) when they start to ask you where they came from.

DVD Review: I recall viewing this in fifth grade health class
Summary: 1 Stars

This video literally is one very graphic thing that I can recall from watching this during my fifth-grade health class. The one part that scarred me and that I recall now at aged 32 was the final scene of the woman giving birth--it is too much for a kid. I still can recall all the students gasping, the color draining from my face, the hairy vagina and then the head slowly coming out. The following discussion also on how all the girls were going to end up adopting. I suppose this film was shown both to explain life (which was too advanced for us to comprehend at the level in the film) along with deter us from teenage pregnancy (did not work either). I feel this film is best left for high schoolers, but is utterly scarring for younger kids!

DVD Review: Really great.
Summary: 5 Stars

We bought this with National Geographic's, "In the Womb". I really like both, they explain different things. NOVA's has a very short part about the actual fetus developing which was disappointing. But all the pictures were real photos of the fetus, it was very interesting.

DVD Review: Still amazing
Summary: 5 Stars

I recently showed this video to our 7th and 8th graders and they were just amazed. We all wished they showed how they did it because that drew almost as many questions as what was happening on the screen. The video was easy to pause and discuss and I'm so glad to have a copy on DVD.

Make sure you watch the whole thing to determine whether your kids can handle the content (kids needed a warning before the ejaculation scene inside the vagina as it looked like a tidal wave), but my school is of the philosophy that the more information you have, the better...and remind them how tiny the sperm really are as they look larger than life onscreen.

DVD Review: Miracle of life/First Feelings DVDs
Summary: 4 Stars

Miracle of Life DVD: Photography is awesome and as always the Nova Documentary is very Scientific but very well stated and easily understood.
First Feelings DVD: Basic child psychology well stated but this documentary was definately made in the mid 70's .....the parents and the Doctors dress was so outdated.... it made you think that the data they discussed surely must be outdated too.

Description of NOVA - The Miracle of Life

Each minute, all over the world, a baby is born. An everyday occurrence, yet each birth is the culmination of one of nature's most complex, mysterious, and seemingly miraculous processes. A dramatic breakthrough in science and cinematography, the Peabody? award-winning The Miracle of Life takes you on an incredible voyage through the human body as a new life begins. World-renowned Swedish photographer Lennart Nilsson presents a spectacular look at a microscopic world

Still startlingly beautiful after several years, Nova's The Miracle of Life records human conception for the first time on film, and much more. Living, functioning reproductive systems are laid bare to the camera, and there is so much to explore and absorb that Nova's expert guidance is much needed and appreciated. The viewer follows an egg from its follicular development in an ovary, through the delicate, flowery fallopian tube for fertilization, and on to the uterus for development and eventual birth. Likewise, we follow the shorter journey of millions of sperm as they develop and strive mightily to reach the egg. (There isn't a man alive who can watch intraurethral footage without squirming--see for yourself!) Photographer Lennart Nilsson has shown us something profoundly beautiful and yet has left its fundamental mystery intact. The Miracle of Life is a rarity: a documentary that is also art. --Rob Lightner

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