Скачать или смотреть The Secret Life of Microbes That Made Earth Habitable

Long before plants, forests, or animals existed, Earth was a dark and suffocating world. The atmosphere held almost no oxygen, and life survived in the shadows, powered only by chemistry.

This cinematic documentary takes you back more than three billion years to meet cyanobacteria—the microscopic organisms that learned to harness sunlight through photosynthesis. By splitting water and releasing oxygen, they triggered the most dramatic transformation in Earth’s history: the Great Oxidation Event.

In this episode, we explore how photosynthesis reshaped the oceans, altered the atmosphere, caused global extinctions, and ultimately made complex life possible. Told through a time-traveling narrative inspired by Netflix and BBC Earth, this film reveals how a quiet microbial innovation changed the fate of an entire planet.

Every breath you take is a legacy of this ancient revolution.
This is Episode 16 of The Forging of Earth—the story of how sunlight became life.

00:00 – The Earth Before Oxygen
02:35 – The Invention of Photosynthesis
05:04 – The Great Oxidation Event
06:08 – Global Climate Shift & Ice Ages
06:48 – The Rise of Complex Life

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