journey-to-life

About Video

This award winning film was made by one of the worlds leading science documentary makers, Pioneer Productions, for National Geographic Channel....., and explores the previously untapped world of non-human mammalian development. Using cutting edge technology, revolutionary 3D and 4D ultrasound imagery, and state-of-the-art model making techniques, the film follows, in step-by-step detail, the process through which our individual species-specific traits develop from a common blueprint which, in the very early stages of pregnancy, all mammals share. We follow the journey of three of the most loveable mammals on the planet all the way from conception to birth: a pet dog, a dolphin and an Asian elephant.

A mesmerizing, revelatory, ambitious, and unforgettable film.

Winner Popular Science and Natural History Category Banff World Television Awards 2007.

Reviews

Daily Telegraph UK "... bursting with wonders of nature . And what a spectacular journey it was, replete with never-before-seen images that brought every step of the process to vivid life before our eyes."

Wall Street Journal, "beautiful"

Oprah Winfrey, "incredible. deserves the word Amazing"

New York Post, "The images will knock your socks off"

Houston Chronicle ".these images of gestating life pack a powerful wallop"

The Times UK ".. the journey of three of the most loveable mammals on the planet - the Asian elephant, the golden Labrador and the dolphin - from conception to birth. This is not an assemblage of Disney-style "aaah" moments; the program is dense with information about each stage of development, at the same time shedding light on their evolutionary heritage. It is not often that one gets a chance to see a dog panting in the womb or a dolphin learning to swim in amniotic fluid. Or, for that matter, to watch an elephant being born."