Earth is an incredible, exceptional planet with an amazing life story full of cataclysmic disasters, eleventh-hour coincidences that save it from extinction, and an astonishing power to continually regenerate. Uses breathtaking footage and special imaging to tell the story of the great forces that shape the planet - volcanoes, the ocean, the atmosphere and ice. Traveling from Ethiopia's unique lava lake to an ice cave under a glacier in Greenland and amazing locations in between, examine the forces that have helped create and foster life on Earth.

Originally broadcast on the BBC in 2007. Not rated.

Disc 1 : Volcanoes (45 minutes) -- Atmosphere (45 minutes) -- Ice (45 minutes) ; Disc 2 : Oceans (45 minutes) -- Rare planet (45 minutes).