Earth & Space [6 Discs] [Blu-ray]

This box set combines two similarly-themed History Channel documentary miniseries, spanning a total of 26 episodes. It begins with 13 installments of How the Earth Was Made, a program that travels around the globe for highly immediate observations of various natural phenomena, augmented by extended scientific discourse about the physical processes believed to have shaped those features over millions of years; subjects include Krakatoa, Loch Ness, Yellowstone, Iceland, and Hawaii. The set also features 13 installments of The Universe, a program that travels to the farthest reaches of outer space, with discussions of various cosmological phenomena and structures, presented here via a combination of NASA and CGI footage; subjects include Jupiter, Mercury and Venus, Saturn, the Outer Planets, Alien galaxies, and much more.