The Human Body

The speeding impulse of a brain cell racing at 250 mph... the quivering dance of hairs in our ear, so small that 10,000 bunched together are thinner than one strand of hair from our head... the miraculous genetic fusion of parental DNA that signals the beginning of a unique new life.

The Human Body, a presentation of The Learning Channel and BBC Worldwide, examines a day in the life of the body as it diligently goes about its complex set of everyday chores. Using innovative filmmaking techniques, combined with the latest medical and scientific imaging, it shows us the ordinary miracles that keep our bodies running from morning until night.

The film is a co-production with the Maryland Science Center and the Science Museum, London, with major funding provided by the National Science Foundation.