Science | PBSback to FilmsDiamonds
Not just a girl’s best friend.
Experience the spellbinding allure and timelessness of Earth’s most valued and mysterious stone. It began thousands of millions of years ago, 100 miles beneath the surface of our planet. In a perfect storm of geologic fury, billions of tons of the carbon rock we know as ordinary coal were transformed by heat and pressure into the hardest, most brilliant and most coveted substance on Earth: diamonds.
Journey into the world of diamonds and begin a treasure hunt that will delve into the planet-forming processes of the past and bring you to the edge of the future – where the full power locked inside this remarkable crystal may quite possibly change the way we live.
- Narrated by
- Stockard Channing
- Produced by
- Hilary Sio
- Peter Schnall
- Directed by Peter Schnall
- Written by
- Janet Hess
- Editor
- Lise Zumwalt
- Coordinating Producer
- Denise Williams
- Associate Producer
- Tammie Rhee
- Filmed by
- Peter Schnall
- Original Music by
- Lenny Williams
- Researchers
- Hilary Sio
- Tammie Rhee
- Additional Camera
- Terry Hopkins
- Jerry Risius
- Sound Recordists
- Glen Marullo
- Andrew Yarme
- Wally Plummer
- Glenn Martin
- Ian Sands
- Phil Arnold
- Bob Tuccillo
- Assistant Camera
- Jerry Risius
- Nick Jardine
- Sam Ketay
- Carlo Muzi
- Rick Gioia
- Production Assistants
- Jessica Applebaum
- Guy Norbury
- Leonora Nye
- Christina Delgado
- Thilo Grimm
- Interns
- Innis Lawrence
- Julie Cracco
- Michelle Marsala
- Post Production Supervisors
- Hannah Koltuv
- Elana Bluestine
- Assistant Editors
- Greg Siroda
- Thomas Brown
- Film Lab
- Commonwealth Films
- Post Production Facility
- Henninger Capitol
- On-Line Editor
- Jef Huey
- Colorist
- Dave Markun
- Post Production Sound
- National Sound
- Sound Mixer
- Ed Campbell
- Sound Design
- Christopher Fina
- Graphics And Special Effects
- Marc Chelnik - Shadow Light Productions
- Kevin Prowse
- Motion Control Camera
- Ralph Pitre, Creative Group
- Legal Services
- Ken Weinrib
- Franklin, Weinrib, Rudell & Vassallo P.C.
- Production Accountant
- Brian Minahan
- Special Thanks
- Argyle Diamonds
- David Fardon - Manager - Sales And Marketing
- Stephanie Stonier - Executive Assistant
- Robyn Sermon - Public Relations
- Marty Hurwitz - MVI Marketing
- DeBeers Consolidated Mines
- Liz Lynch - Marketing Director - USA And Canada
- Simon Gilbert - Diamond Information - Office Executve
- Brandee Dallow - J.Walter Thompson Company
- Vanderbilt University - School Of Engineering
- The Versace Group
- Culha Diamonds
- Harry Winston, Inc.
- City University Of New York