The Miracle of Life takes you on an incredible voyage through the human body as a new life begins. World-renowned Swedish photographer Lennart Nilsson presents a spectacular look at a microscopic world of beautiful colors and forms deep inside ourselves. \See the egg as the ovary releases it and follow the sperm from its early development through ejaculation and then on its perilous journey toward the egg. With magnification up to half a million times the actual size, you can see exactly what happens at the moment of conception. After the sperm fertilizes the egg, the camera follows the development of the single new cell into an embryo, then fetus, until finally a baby is born. Never before had the extraordinary process been filmed!\\Bonus DVD: NOVA: Life's First Feelings. The emotional development of babies is an exciting, ever-unfolding story, and nurturing this development often becomes a major concern for parents. Are infants born with programmed facial expressions? Do these expressions have evolutionary and adaptive significance? How much emotional development depends upon family, environment, and culture? NOVA reveals the surprising emotional capabilities of newborns and very young children.

CIRC # 543 or 543a-b or 543a or 543b.\Formerly MAT 1 or Maternal 1.\"A production of James Lipscomb, Inc. in association with WGBH"--Container. Originally broadcast as episodes of the television program Nova. "The first filmed record of human conception, photographed by Lennart Nilsson"--Container. The miracle of life originally released in 1982. Life's first feelings originally released in 1986. Special features: DVD features include teaching materials in Adobe Acrobat PDF file format and access to the NOVA web site.

The miracle of life.The miracle begins -- Female reproduction -- Male reproduction -- The dance of life -- Barriers to conception -- The egg -- The fetus -- Birth. Disc 1. Actual conception and development of a baby -- Looks inside the male and female reproductive organs to show the formation of sperm and the passage of a fertilized egg through the fallopian tube -- Uses a microscope to observe DNA, chromosomes, and other minute body details building up to the moment of birth -- Disc 2. Reveals the surprising emotional capabilities of newborns and very young children. Life's first feelings. Introduction -- Emotions come first -- Unraveling the mysteries of emotions -- A cautious child -- Social emotions.