Life in the Undergrowth

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Actor: David Attenborough
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 250 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-05-02
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Warner

DVD Reviews of Life in the Undergrowth

DVD Review: Another great documentary by the BBC.
Summary: 5 Stars

Very well done and well presented. By far more fascinating and interesting than I ever expected. Cinematography of nature at its most interesting.

DVD Review: Wonderful!
Summary: 5 Stars

Fantastic! A beautiful, intelligent and fun documentary about the bugs' miniature world. Incredibly well shot. Might be a bit too long for kids to endure it all.

DVD Review: life in the undergrowth
Summary: 5 Stars

Very informative video. I teach 6,7, and 8th grade science and the students were intrigued by the images shown. David Attenborough does an excellent job narrating.

DVD Review: Breathtaking, fascinating & educational
Summary: 5 Stars

I got this as an unplanned purchase when I bought the Planet Earth series and we've been watching this one more than Planet Earth so far. My two year old is really into bugs and insects so I thought this would be valuable for him, but my husband and I have really been enjoying it and watch it even after our son goes to bed. The camera-work is amazing and you just don't get tired of watching the beauty. I don't think there are any other movies out there which use such tiny cameras so you get such a deep look at these creatures. Plus who knew there were so many amazing insects with social systems, amazing hunting techniques and interesting mating rituals. Some of these things are right out of a sci-fi movie...but they're real! :) Attenborough is wonderful to listen too and his presence gives you perspective of the size of some of these creatures. Overall, very highly recommended.

DVD Review: great product
Summary: 5 Stars

the pictures and all the details avaliable in this dvd are better than everything I saw before about insects an their way of life. I'm a teacher and my students loved it when they watched it.

Description of Life in the Undergrowth

David Attenborough guides the viewer through a miniature universe teeming with life, never normally seen, yet all around us. New technology reveals surreal vistas and their extraordinary inhabitants -- swarming antler moths, desert locusts and a mountain of cockroaches -- up close and personal. The bizarre and the beautiful are represented and their habits, lifestyles and characteristics explained in David Attenborough's inimitable style. Though small, these creatures are as ferocious as any seen before.

By getting up close and personal with Life in the Undergrowth, this extraordinary BBC series sets a new standard of excellence in wildlife cinematography. Hosted by veteran nature expert David Attenborough and utilizing the latest advances in macrophotography, the five-part series is dedicated to bugs of all shapes and sizes, from microscopic gnats to cave-dwelling millipedes so large they can capture bats in mid-flight and feast for hours thereafter! The patience involved in filming such previously unseen marvels must have been grueling (as confirmed by producer Mike Salisbury in a splendid bonus interview), but the results are nothing less than astonishing, with a parade of sequences so impressive that even insect-haters will pause in amazement. With an emphasis on reproduction and mating behaviors, each program focuses on a different, generalized group of creatures, many of them never filmed before, so that lay-persons and entomologists will be equally enlightened by discoveries made in the process of filming.

As always, Attenborough serves as an expert witness, cordial, fearless, and quintessentially British as he explains what we're seeing, from the nocturnal fluorescence of scorpions (glowing at night in ultraviolet light, they perform a mating dance playfully described as "a nuptial pas de deux") to the mysterious, 17-year life cycle of the cicada. Throughout, we see everything, both frightening and beautiful, from an intimate, bug's-eye view, in detail so vividly colorful that you'll never view the insect world in quite the same way again. (Likewise for the diverse variety of critters on view in episode 3: "The Silk Spinners," which according to Salisbury is capable of curing arachnophobes from their irrational fear of spiders.) Just when you think Life in the Undergrowth couldn't get any more fascinating, it does: episode 4, "Intimate Relations," shows how many insects symbiotically depend on other species for food, shelter, or completion of their reproductive cycles, and episode 5, "Supersocieties," focuses on the social complexities of insect colonists like ants and termites. Enough to give you the creeps for days, you say? Think again, for after seeing Life in the Undergrowth (a perfect companion piece to the Nova episode "The Unknown World"), you may find yourself in the garden, on your knees, eager for a better look at the countless millions of tiny creatures that surround us every day. --Jeff Shannon

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