Product Description
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Planet Earth: The Complete Collection (BD)
The makers of The Blue Planet present the epic story of life on
Earth. Five years in production, over 2000 days in the field,
using 40 cameramen filming across 200 locations, this is the
ultimate portrait of our planet. A stunning television experience
that combines rare action, unimaginable scale, impossible
locations and moments with our planet's best-loved,
wildest and most elusive creatures. From the highest ains to
the deepest rivers, this blockbuster series takes you on an
unforgettable journey through the challenging seasons and the
daily struggle for survival in Earth's most extreme habitats.
Using a budget of unprecedented proportions, HD photography and
unique, specially developed filming techniques, Planet Earth
takes you to places you have never seen before, to experience
s and sounds you may never experience again.
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As of its release in early 2007, Planet Earth is quite simply
the greatest nature/wildlife series ever produced. Following the
similarly monumental achievement of The Blue Planet: Seas of
Life, this astonishing 11-part BBC series is brilliantly narrated
by Sir David Attenborough and sensibly organized so that each
50-minute episode covers a specific geographical region and/or
wildlife habitat (ains, caves, deserts, shallow seas,
seasonal forests, etc.) until the entire planet has been
magnificently represented by the most astonishing s and
sounds you'll ever experience from the comforts of home. The
premiere episode, "From Pole to Pole," serves as a primer for
things to come, placing the entire series in proper context and
giving a general overview of what to expect from each individual
episode. Without being overtly political, the series maintains a
consistent and subtle emphasis on the urgent need for ongoing
conservation, best illustrated by the plight of polar bears whose
very behavior is changing (to accommodate life-threatening
changes in their fast-melting habitat) in the wake of global
warming--a phenomenon that this series appropriately presents as
scientific fact. With this harsh reality as subtext, the series
proceeds to accentuate the positive, delivering a seemingly
endless variety of natural wonders, from the spectacular mating
displays of New Guinea's various birds of paradise to a rare
encounter with Siberia's nearly-extinct Amur Leopards, of which
only 30 remain in the wild.
That's just a hint of the marvels on display. Accompanied by
majestic orchestral scores by George Fenton, every episode is
packed with images so beautiful or so forcefully impressive (and
so perfectly photographed by the BBC's tenacious high-definition
camera crews) that you'll be rendered speechless by the splendor
of it all. You'll see a seal struggling to out-maneuver a Great
White Shark; swimming macaques in the Ganges delta; massive
flocks of snow geese numbering in the hundreds of thousands; an
awesome night-vision sequence of lions attacking an elephant; the
Colugo (or "flying lemur"--not really a lemur!) of the
Philippines; a hunting alliance of fish and snakes on Indonesia's
magnificent coral reef; the bioluminescent "vampire squid" of the
deep oceans... these are just a few of countless highlights,
masterfully filmed from every conceivable angle, with frequent
use of super-slow-motion and amazing motion-controlled time-lapse
cinematography, and narrated by Attenborough with his trademark
combination of observational wit and informative authority. The
result is a hugely entertaining series that doesn't flinch from
the predatory realities of nature (death is a constant presence,
without being off-putting). At a time when the multiple threats
of global warming should be obvious to all, let's give Sir David
the last word, from the closing of Planet Earth's final episode:
"We can now destroy or we can cherish--the choice is ours."
--Jeff Shannon
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