Product Details

• Actors: Just the Facts
• Directors: Cerebellum Corporation
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Cerebellum Corporation
• DVD Release Date: August 28, 2007
• Run Time: 50 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000VD5I1W
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #15,882 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

The human body is a wondrously complex machine made of flesh, bone, muscles, organs, blood vessels and highly specialized systems that function together to sustain life. This fascinating third part of The Human Body series examines the incredible "machine," from simple cells, to DNA, the body's building blocks of life, to the major systems and organs.

Using animation combined with live-action footage and commentary from medical specialists, this program illustrates how the major systems and organs function. Viewers learn how the reproductive system generates new life and how the stomach, intestines and other organs of the digestive system convert solid matter into the fuel of life. We also discover how the lungs and respiratory system take in oxygen that sustains life, and how the heart and circulatory system connect all body systems, providing a delivery system for the oxygen. In addition, the program explores the lymphatic, immune and other supporting systems. Finally, viewers explore the structure and functions of our skin, the body's largest organ, which protects us from the outside environment.

The Human Body -- Major Systems and Organs enhances viewers' understanding of the truly miraculous machine that is the human body.

The Just the Facts Learning Series brings you the finest in educational programming and features a fast-paced format that makes learning fun. Other videos in The Human Body series include The Musculoskeletal System and The Nervous System.

Customer Reviews

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28 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your money on this, November 16, 2007

By	Allan M. Lees (Novato, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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It's difficult to know the intended audience for the three DVDs in this series. Perhaps a complete idiot would find something in them, but then again a complete idiot probably wouldn't be able to insert the DVD into the player...

This series is a complete waste of time and money. Only the "intellectually incurious" (as G.W.B was once charitably described)could be satisfied with the flaccid content of these disks. On the DVD about organ systems we do at least get an early warning of the wasteland ahead, when a young doctor earnestly looks directly into camera and says "the reproductive system is the system involved in reproduction."

With content like this, who needs artificially-induced comas?

The series seems to have been put together by people who believed that having a few people in white coats uttering superficialities over diagrams of the human body constitutes educational material. Worse, the major analogy ("just like a car, the human body's parts are designed to work together...") is not just stupid but actively wrong. Presumably the reference to "design" is aimed at the appallingly huge number of US citizens who believe that the universe was "intelligently designed." The really interesting things about the human body (and indeed any organic system) arise from the fact that they have evolved piece-meal, not that they are slotted together from an engineer's drawing. Without an examination of the way in which an organ system arises, any meaningful description of it is impossible. Yet this is what we get here, at a level of abstraction that is absurd to the point of unintentional comedy.

This atrocious series doesn't dig deep enough into detail for any viewer to have any idea of how things work or why. We remain at such a high altitude that it's equivalent to seeing China from orbit. Oohh! Look! China. OK, done China, now let's move on...

If you are looking for an educational and informative account of how the human body is constituted and how its parts function (both individually and as part of the whole) then don't waste your time and money buying any of the three DVDs in this series. If, however, you've already ordered them and it's too late to cancel your order, you can at least utilize them as coasters for your drinks. It is their only valid use.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars almost child like, February 17, 2008

By	Lyndon Gardner "carlito" (heaven) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

the other viewer was pretty on, some of the so called doctors said some really strange meaningless things. the whole experience was very child like and amateurish i looked for the release date it was 2007 it seems more like late 80's the dvd major organs has been the worst, i would suggest if you really want some good info you will look else where to spend your money. i work as a personal trainer, yoga and chef so i have been studying the mind, body and spirit for about 15 years, one thing i thought was sad, here these doctors and health professionals are promoting the human body and its functions and the girl in the video seems to be eating an oreo cookie talk about going against your bodies natural functions, just thought that to be very strange. over all the dvd quality was very poor, save yourself the trouble look else where.