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Human Body

The everyday biological processes that keep us ticking are all in a day's work for the human body. Finding a way to film and illustrate those activities for a screen seven stories tall required a cinematic inventiveness that was anything but routine.

Co-produced by Discovery Pictures and the BBC, The Human Body incorporates ground-breaking computer graphics with stunning real-life images to create a day in the life of a human body.

Follow what happens in the course of a single day: the extraordinary accomplishments in the lives and bodies of eight-year-old Zannah, teenager Luke and Uncle Buster and Aunt Heather - an American couple expecting their first child. In astonishing detail, this giant-screen film presents a slice of our life - a look at the daily biological processes that go on without our control and often without our notice. This film gives us glimpses of: 100 billion new red blood cells the body generates each morning, 40 yards of new hair that sprouts each day and a human egg nestling in the folds of a fallopian tube, plus many more. The human body is investigated and portrayed in ways never seen before - using the latest technology from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Computer Aided Tomography (CAT scan), thermal imagery and X-Ray techniques.

Note to teachers: While we think this film is appropriate for all age groups, we do want you to be aware that there is a birthing scene in this film. It is done in very good taste, but could still raise questions with some of the younger students.

Curriculum Resources

Teachers' Guide Kent ISD KC4 Curriculum