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MOVIE · 2001

Lost Worlds: Life in the Balance

Documentary40 min

Harrison Ford narrates a globe-spanning look at parts of the natural world humans rarely reach, from microscopic life beneath New York to Pacific kelp forests and the heights of the waterfall that inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World. Plants, animals, and geology share the frame as the film moves through isolated environments with an emphasis on scale and close observation. It shifts between underwater landscapes, hidden microbial worlds, and towering rock formations to sketch a broader picture of biological diversity in places that remain largely untouched.

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