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National Geographic - Inside the Living Body

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I teach school in L.A. and this is a great video to make the students think and ask questions. You can show the entire video at once or just show sections at a time. The video is Awsome but make sure you watch it before lunch. Some of the video might be difficult for people with weak stomachs.

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Great view of the body from birth, inside the digestive and airways, to adulthood and old age. I used it in class.

This biology program is a must have for anyone interested in seeing real footages and microscopic detail such as blood flow and heart valves. Also, they inserted an arthroscopic camera down the gut. There's a tad bit amount of computer generated, such as baby's skeleton crawling on the kitchen floor, but overall we're given the real deal, blood, guts, and squirting glands. Yummy if you're not light headed. It also narrates our body's changes from birth to death in laymen terms. I highly recommend this video. It is very interesting, intuitive, and never a dull moment.

Some technical aspects: Running time is in fact 96 minutes, not 60 as Amazon incorrectly lists. It aspect ratio is letterboxed widescreen; you'll have black bars on BOTH the tops AND the bottoms of your screen. Not sure why the producers did this, but you can easily correct this to fill your entire screen by hitting the zoom button on your TV. Don't worry, quality is still maintained, and excellent picture. Relatively recent release '07, I did wish a blu ray version was available.

If you wish to have only 1 biology dvd on your ownership shelf, it should be this one. The second one to accompany this is: the Incredible Human Machine (National Geographic), National Geographic - Incredible Human Machine. The third is: Discovery The Human Body Pushing the Limits blu ray.

Informational and easy to understand. Outstanding graphics. Worth more than the money I paid for.

I watched this on NatGeo two years ago and was excited to see it for sale - my dvr somehow had erased it! This is so informative and interesting that my 5 and 4 year olds were sitting and watching it with me. I look forward to showing parts of it in my HS level Biology class that I teach. Really amazing footage, CGI, of the processes occurring in the body. Truly an amazing machine.

I teach a quarter-long 6th grade health class and I show this the first week of every term. It's a fantastic overview that we can then refer back to as we go more in depth later in the class. This is not a video you'll just want to play straight through for kids. I would suggest watching it a few times first to know where you'll want to fast forward (like one of the first scenes of the live birth), where you want to pause to forewarn kids to avoid upset stomachs or awkward giggles (some digestions scenes, one where a baby is breast feeding, the puberty scenes, and one where a woman's glutes are awkwardly being massaged). It's also good to know where you'll want to insert your own extra info or try to simplify some of the explanations as some things may be too complex for younger viewers to understand. I think anyone high school age or older can get it all pretty easily and I wouldn't recommend for anyone under age 10. Although I understand this is designed for slightly older viewers, it works great even for my middle schoolers since I've now seen is about 50 times and know exactly how I want to use it.

I watched it with my children ages 8-16 and found it to be a great educational tool.

Extremely rich, state of the art photography/cinematograrphy!!! The narration is well executed as well. A+

I'd recommend it everyone who does not looking for hard studies but want to know how our body works. This disk mostly like introduction in human biology. It consists good narrations and accompanying music a lot of animations and real video made with help of micro cameras inside living body. Video covers processes of developing, living and aging from birth to the very final moment. It is not anatomy course and does not cover names of bones, muscles, whole structure of brain, central and peripheral nerve systems and so on. And because of that it is easier for perception. It has enough information from DNA to external structure of body to get understanding of how our body live but not get borin National Geographic - Inside the Living Bodyg of complicity. I really enjoyed this movie.

This video contains very basic body functions with content appropriate for a 12-year-old. This video is all about new camera technology, not about the magic of life. I couldn't finish it and had to skip through what I did watch. You'll learn nothing as an adult, but your children may find it interesting if you don't mind them watching the close-ups of the vagina as the baby comes through and the graphic, nipple-sucking nourishment scenes. A puzzle to me. What are they trying to show? Cameras inside the body move through tunnels of tissue that leave you WITHOUT a "Wow, look at that" feeling as well as the "I didn't know that" expectation as you watch the baby grow into an adult. Extremely boring and without the inspirational advances in medical science that I was expecting. If you're pregnant, you will probably love it. If you have an interest in new technology, irregardless of the lack of new information, you'll enjoy that part. If you're a medical/science junkie, as I am, looking for information, forget it.