Edward Norton Movie:

		List Price: $34.98		Label: National Geographic Video Salesrank: 28280 Released: April 26, 2005
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		MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated) Media: DVD

Editorial Review:
Around the globe scientists are racing to solve a series of mysteries. Unsettling transformations are sweeping across the planet and clue by clue investigators are discovering ways that seemingly disparate events are connected. Crumbling houses in New Orleans are linked to voracious creatures from southern China. An asthma epidemic in the Caribbean is linked to dust storms in Africa. Scientists suspect we have entered a time of global change swifter than any human being has ever witnessed. Where are we headed? What can we do to alter this course of events? Hosted by actor Edward Norton.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. UPC: 727994930099

National Geographic's Strange Days on Planet Earth Reviews:
We Should Be Taking Better Care Of This Place!
2009-11-01 - This was a really good 4-part series about some very important environmental problems. It shows just how important it is that we watch what we are doing to the world: Carbon emissions, putting crap in the water, killing off predator animals, and introducing destructive animals into new environments. Really just boils down to the main problem... there are WAY too many of us, and we aren't taking care of the place!

Ed Norton is a favorite actor of mine, and he took the subject matter very seriously. 3 of the episodes were focused on issues, which I had not seen covered in any great detail anywhere else! It was great how they showed us a mystery about nature in a downward spiral, and then showed scientists and "nature detectives" working to find a solution. In some, they were actually learning to swing things around, but we are faced with an overwhelming question: Will the worlds' masses be willing to make hard sacrifices to fix what we've done unless our governments make certain practices illegal and the punishments enough of a deterrent!?

This should be shown to every student and governmental leader, but more people need to care.

I love these videos...Please make more!
2009-04-17 - The short vignettes walk the viewer through a given scenario along with one or more scientists working on a specific issue. The videos show good science, that is, science being done properly from the initial question or questions, to conclusions drawn from the available data. This often leads to additional questions, but that is the nature of science. Older kids love these videos! The videos make science more real to them and they get to see the scientific process occurring on topics that are in the news and impacting their lives. I love the way the stories often tie together seemingly unrelated topics, showing how the world is connected and that what's happening in other places can impact us in our little area of earth. I highly recommend both the first and second season of Strange Days and am hoping for more seasons in the future.

A Must See Documentary
2009-04-07 - This is an excellent and informative documentary...Hosted by Edward Norton who concisely and compassionately points out severe pollution in our environment
I highly reccommend this to anyone. I find it to be an absolute requirement along side An Inconvenient Truth!

Not junk science but...
2008-01-08 - This gives some interesting populist insights of the changes humans have brought, and are bringing, to the planet. Some of the examples are interesting whilst others are familiar. It is not urgent enough for me and the real reasons for these `negative' changes are not really explained. However, I suppose would be difficult to do this and make the programme populist(and it would upset many of the `powers that be').
However, a subtle point but, I think, an important one was the use of background music. This music is used in dramas to create illusions (of fear, of dread, etc) but why are these techniques used in a DOCUMENTARY? When the caribou swam across the river, I did not need an acoustic guitar playing in the background (why is it there- to stop boredom?). I would rather hear the natural sounds of the swimming. Herein lies the rub, this is really not a documentary but entertainment that purports to educate. In fact, it makes a mockery of the natural world by trying every technique to hide it, whilst at the same time using visuals combined with (annoying) sounds to induce emotion not knowledge. I have yet to hear percussion instruments under the sea in real life. Modern audiences need to see nature as it is. I am disappointed that many recent documentaries, excellent visuals are not enough for producers - that is, natural sounds and sights are not enough - we must be fed artificial `music' as well. (after all CSI uses that technique). `Bye `bye natural world. 'Bye, 'bye documentary. Fiction beomes fact. This is really a nice piece of Disneyeque science with a few entertaining and useful insights. Come on National Geographic, how about a deeper inveigation into this - something more sober. I do not doubt that the facts presented with the excellent visuals would be entertaining and truly educational. Let's try to get out of the virtual, make believe world in documentaries


Excellent and enjoyable series on our small and fragile planet
2007-11-29 - Strange Days is so well put together, and Edward Norton is a powerful narrator. I show at least one of the four episodes in classes that I teach. Students from Middle School to Grad School enjoy it equally. Episode 2: The One Degree Factor is my favorite documentary on Climate Change. Episode 4: Troubled Waters is one of the most chilling environmental segments ever aired. And the other two Episodes are fabulous.

I enjoy how the series shows scientists of every walk of life (not just white males in lab coats) and how it ties everything together and demonstrates how important and fragile linkages are in the Earth system.

This is a must see for everyone who call Earth home. Teachers, you'll love showing these in your classes, and your students will love them, too!

See http://www.pbs.org/strangedays/ for more information.