Darwin's Brave New World DVD

Darwin s Brave New World recounts the extraordinary and often harrowing story of Charles Darwin s 30-year journey to piece together the strange puzzles he saw in nature and finally publish his theory about the evolution of life on earth. Darwin s voyage across the giant Pacific Ocean aboard HMS Beagle in 1835 changed the timid young Anglican into one of the most incendiary thinkers of the past few hundred years. In this brilliant three-part dramatised series, we meet the man, his family and the colleagues who supported him through years of illness, isolation, agonizing self-doubt and religious crisis. We gain a glimpse into the courage and tenacity it took Darwin and the other great thinkers who surrounded him to change the way they understood the world, and their place in it.