HUMAN BODY movie
The Human Body movie is a BBC documentary series first shown on 1998.
Presented by Robert Winston, a medical scientist and leading commentator on medical matters, Lord Winston takes the viewer on a documentary journey from birth to death using time-lapse photography, computer graphics and state-of-the-art imaging techniques. The series explores every aspect of the human body in its various stages of growth, maturity and inevitable decline. Conception, toddlerhood, adolescence, the complexities of the brain and finally death are all documented and explained.
Episodes of Human Body:
1. HUMAN BODY Life Story movie: Every second, a world of miraculous microscopic events take place within the body.
You'll journey with me on the road that your body takes. Through dangers. Through miracles. And through time. We'll see the human body in all its forms, fom our beginning to all our ends.
2. HUMAN BODY An everyday miracle movie: The drama of conception activates the most sophisticated life support machine on earth.
The great triumph, though, is that we have also inherited solutions. So although the human body makes pregnancy the most complicated task it ever faces, at the same time it makes it look so very easy.
3. HUMAN BODY First Steps movie: In four years, the new-born child learns every survival skill.
They can be tracked on a computer to reveal the underlying motion of my skeleton. It's the only way you can follow something even as seemingly simple as the movement of a limb.
4. HUMAN BODY Raging Teens movie: The hormone-driven roller-coaster otherwise known as adolescence!
Watching how they move reveals how impressive the human body is. I don't mind the growing, the growing in height, but any other way is just a curse, the curse of puberty.
5. HUMAN BODY Brain Power movie: The adult human brain is the most complicated - and mysterious - object in the universe.
Even so, there will always be some questions that it just cannot answer. As a religious person, I believe that much of what makes us human will forever remain mysterious, even spiritual. I call it the soul.
6. HUMAN BODY As time goes by movie: is far more complex and fascinating than mere decline.
We tend to think that the human capacity for art, science and technology is what marks us out. But though we don't often see it this way.
7. HUMAN BODY The end of life movie: Even in death, the body reveals remarkable secrets.
The sensations of euphoria may be because the brain releases opiate-like substances to relieve the acute distress and pain.
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Between the turmoil of puberty and the decline of old age, the human body reaches its peak. In biological terms, as adults, we are the finished article. So, all the triumphs of human endeavour stem from one thing. It's the most mysterious part of the human body, and yet it dominates the way we live our adult lives. It is the brain. The human brain is a miracle of evolution. It's the most complicated object in the known universe. It's easy to laugh at him now, but Aristotle was the first person to think seriously about how the human body worked. We've come a long way since the fourth century BC. We never looked back. Standing tall on two legs happened very early on in the development of the human body, before we had opposable thumbs, before we had stone tools, before we had language. As a scientist, I believe that science is the most powerful way of finding out about the human body.
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If we take a line of people, one from each year of life from birth to a hundred, what we see is the remarkable development of human ageing. As we journey through the first stages of our lives, our bodies develop to meet the challenges of each new age.
Year by year, we're continually developing, growing stronger, becoming more intellectually alert and more sexually mature.
The copying process is not perfect. In terms of the human body, we call these mistakes ageing. Moreover, the older the person, i.e. the copying machine, the more frequent are the mistakes. And of course, if we carry on copying for too long, we'll eventually reach the point where we disappear altogether. We tend to think that the human capacity for art, science and technology is what marks us out. But though we don't often see it this way, perhaps our ability to live to a ripe old age is the human body's greatest achievement.
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We go about our daily lives hardly ever considering our final fate. Yet at every moment, we are surrounded by death. Around 60 people will die in the United Kingdom before the end of this programme. We seldom witness death. 0ften our only experience is from films and television, which can present it as a violent and painful event.
We are reluctant to face up to our own mortality, to confront the truth that in the midst of life, we are in death. In this final part of the story of the human body, we take a difficult journey to see what happens when this mass of biological activity ceases to be, to see how all the previous ages of our existence are undone in the final act.
The processes of death in the human body are remarkable. This is what it would look like if you could see the human body cool down over 24 hours. Death comes not as a single quick event, but a slow winding down. It is difficult to say when every cell in the body ceases to have life. Long before we stop breathing, our brain may die, our personality lost for ever. But the biology of death can seem cold, and distant from the human story.
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HUMAN BODY Brain Power movie
