NOVA – S25 E20 : The Perfect Pearl

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For centuries, man has risked both life and life savings to possess the pearl's beauty. Pure and perfect, glowing and dazzling, a pearl is actually a mistake formed when an oyster reacts to an irritant lodged in its shell. Go back to the late 18th century to meet Kokichi Mikimoto, who developed a technique for culturing pearls that's still used today. Travel to a Japanese oyster hatchery to see how technology is advancing pearl cultivation. Watch divers search for the immense pearls found in the world's largest oyster, the Pinctada maxima. See a strand of South Sea perfect pearls worth $2.3 million. And discover little-known facts as authors, zoologists, scientists and pearl experts reveal the pearl's wondrous history.

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Cast

Sigourney Weaver
as Narrator
Harrison Ford
as Narrator
John Lithgow
as Narrator
Keith David
as Narrator
Stacy Keach
as Narrator
Susan Sarandon
as Narrator (voice)
John Hurt
as Narrator
Liev Schreiber
as Narrator (voice)
Zachary Quinto
as Narrator
F. Murray Abraham
as Narrator
Oliver Platt
as Narrator
Rebecca De Mornay
as Narrator
Héctor Elizondo
as Narrator
Shirley Henderson
as Mileva Maric
Roy Scheider
as Narrator
Samuel West
as Humphry Davy
Joe Morton
as Narrator
Stockard Channing
as Narrator (voice)
Jim Carter
as Narrator
Derek Jacobi
as Voice of Ernest Shackleton
Frances O'Connor
as Emma Darwin
Simon Callow
as Galileo
Jay O. Sanders
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Courtney B. Vance
as Narrator
Brian Greene
as Host
Ian Holm
as Narrator (voice)
Anton Lesser
as Voltaire
Sally Kellerman
as Narrator
Scott Handy
as Isaac Newton
Corey Johnson
as Narrator
Julian Rhind-Tutt
as Antoine Lavoisier
David Ogden Stiers
as Narrator
David Attenborough
as Narrator
Henry Ian Cusick
as Charles Darwin
Aidan McArdle
as Albert Einstein
Craig Sechler
as Narrator
John Benjamin Hickey
as Narrator
Tony Robinson
as Younger Ernie
Joseph Campanella
as Narrator (voice)
Neil Ross
as Narrator
Nigel Bennett
as Sir Charles Lyell
Darri Ingolfsson
as Godfred Hansen
Carl Sagan
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
as Percy Julian
Steven Robertson
as Michael Faraday
Eric Meyers
as Narrator

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