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NOVA: Life's Rocky Start

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Four and a half billion years ago, the young Earth was a hellish place-a seething chaos of meteorite impacts, volcanoes belching noxious gases, and lightning flashing through a thin, torrid...

DirectorDoug Hamilton
WriterDoug Hamilton
ProducerDoug Hamilton

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Cast · Directed by Doug Hamilton

JSJay O. Sanders
Jay O. Sanders
Narrator (voice)

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NOVA: Life's Rocky Start is streaming on PBS Documentaries in United States. It's not currently on Netflix.

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