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SD CINEMATOGRAFICA was formed in 1961 as a production company. Since its founding, the company has produced Films, Variety Programmes, and Science and Cultural documentaries for the Italian public broadcaster RAI and other leading international television companies. In recent years the company has focused on wildlife, Science and History documentaries with such success that it now counts National Geographic Channels, Discovery Channels, TF1, ARTE, NHK, TSR, ARD/BR, PBS and ZDF, as well as RAI and Mediaset, among its clients. Many SD documentaries have won major international prizes at the world’s leading festivals, including Academy Award, Emmy and Banff nominations. Today SD Cinematografica has over 800 hours of programming to its name. [abs]

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Hannes Schuler e Katharina von Flotow

Monaco Film, FIlms A Trois, Chapman Pictures

90'

HD

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Charles Darwin is without doubt one of the greatest thinkers in the history of mankind.
His scientific research , which culminated with the publication of the theory evolution in 1859, shook humanity’s belief in being chosen, the fruit of God's creation , and proved that it has developed through a long evolutionary process .
Mankind was no longer the unique creation of God, but the result of a process of adaptation that had lasted for millions of years. Many of the observations that led Darwin to this new and shocking conclusion were made during the long voyage of the Beagle, a British ship that took him around the world on a five-year journey from 1831 to 1836.
Two hundred years after Darwin's birth and 150 years after the publication of “The Origin of Species”, the documentary reconstructs the naturalist’s voyage around the world and talks to contemporary scientists to try and explain why his ideas still play such an important role in science today.

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