Life in the Undergrowth
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Actor: David AttenboroughBrand: WARNER HOME VIDEO
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, 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: double duty present
Summary: 5 Stars
i bought this dvd and several other nature related ones for my mother for mothers day. she is a kindergarten teacher and nature enthusiast so i figured this would do the trick. i have recieved multiple phone calls raving about how great it is for home viewing AND as an educational tool! i can't wait until the school year is over and i can borrow it to watch!DVD Review: Wonderful
Summary: 5 Stars
I was a little hesitant to by this at first because I thought that I would've been spoiled by Blue Planet and Planet Earth. However, this turned out to be just as wonderful. I dare someone to find something negative to say about David Attenborough. The episodes in this documentary are informative, interesting and narrated beautifully. The camera work is amazing and you continue to watch every moment in awe at what you're seeing. I highly recommend it.DVD Review: Great Documentaries
Summary: 5 Stars
Bought this series for my 5 year old boy. He loves see these bugs up close in all their wonderful colors and macabre behaviors. As an adult you can get sucked in very easily with the visuals and the new information wonderfully narrated by the master of BBC documentaries.DVD Review: a masterpiece
Summary: 5 Stars
Another masterpiece of David Attenborough, for me the best. I'd never thought a documentary about insect life could be so fascinating. Most bizarre adaptations, alliances, enemies... Especially the episode on social insects is breathtaking because we humans also have an advanced technology, and we live like highly organized termites. Termites are slaves of their society, enslaved by their DNA imprinting, whereas we are slaves of our modern economy enslaved by education and indoctrination.DVD Review: To be watched again and again
Summary: 5 Stars
I got this for my daughter for her 5th birthday. Two years later, we're still watching it. It never ceases to be enjoyable and informative for us (our daughter and the grown-ups) and her little brother from the time he was 3 up to the present.
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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