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The Planets by BBC (1999) ★ All new Files Including Chapter Markers, and MKV Versions!
Also 2 more New Videos have been added: "How the Earth was Made" and "Inside the Volcano" - for 3 hours of more video - at the end of the original 8 videos.
March 24th, 2025: I got master DVDs from HERE - https://archive.org/details/the_planets_series_iso and I am grateful to the uploader!
I made new videos with better sound, chapter markers, and MKV Video versions of the new MP4 files. The last 2 videos also have subtitles in them. These new files are almost twice the filesize of the original videos that were here for a long long time!
In order to use the chapters, in either the .MP4 or the .MKV videos: you must download them to your device, and play them from there - with a media player (like VLC) that uses chapter marks, and also shows subtitles.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
The Planets is an documentary miniseries produced by the BBC and A&E and released in 1999. The series was remastered in 2004. It documents the Solar System and its nature, formation, and discovery by humans during the Space Age. The series of eight episodes includes a substantial amount of archival footage from both the United States and Soviet space programs. It also depicts the Solar System through computer graphics.
There were a total of eight episodes produced for the series. The series featured appearances from famous pioneering space scientists and explorers. (I have the 1999 version here. Lunar Monkey has the 2004 version there. You now have a choice of which version to watch!)
Commentators in episode 1 include Hal Levison, George Wetherill, and David Levy.
Commentators in episode 4 include Apollo 17 Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmidt, while episode 5 features Apollo 12 Commander Charles Conrad and solar physicist Eugene Parker (of whom the NASA Parker Solar Probe was named in tribute), episode 6 retired USAF Colonel and Project Excelsiot pilot Joe Kittinger, and episode 8 Apollo 17 Commander and last human to walk on the Moon Eugene Cernan.
Commentators in episode 5 include Douglas Gough. It also talks about Angelo Secchi who pioneered the field of astronomical spectroscopy.
Other notable commentators include James Van Allen, Sergei Khrushchev (son of Nikita Khrushchev and aerospace engineer), Alexei Leonov, Boris Chertok and Carolyn Porco.
- Archive
- Internet Archive, in Lost telecourses
- Licence or status
- The Internet Archive states none for this item.
- Rights statement
- Fair Use Notice
- Credit
- BBC
- Language
- English
- Who can watch
- The archive gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Tweens profiles and older, judged from its collection and subjects. How films are placed