Planet Earth: The Complete BBC Series [HD DVD]

Planet Earth: The Complete BBC Series [HD DVD]

Planet Earth: The Complete BBC Series [HD DVD]
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Actor: David Attenborough
Brand: Ingram
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Published)
Format: Box set, Color, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 44 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-04-24
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Warner
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DVD Reviews of Planet Earth: The Complete BBC Series [HD DVD]

DVD Review: Planet Earth - Blu-Ray - Stunning Picture Quality
Summary: 4 Stars

Highly recommended....a must own. The nature series of the decade. Narrated by David Attenborough. Picture quality will knock your socks off on a properly set up video system. My only complaint is that the behind the scenes "making of" footage is not included in this version.

DVD Review: Great
Summary: 5 Stars

This came really fast and it fit the description. I would recommend buying from this company.

DVD Review: Good but not Great
Summary: 3 Stars

The DVDs were new. My single complaint is that the clear plastic centers that hold the DVDs into the case are all crushed. So, the DVDs do not stay in place within the case. I fear that the DVDs will be scratched or dropped when the case is openned.

DVD Review: Perfect gift
Summary: 5 Stars

I bought these dvd's for my 14 year old sons birthday and he couldn't get enough of them. The information is compelling and well presented. I highly recommend it.

DVD Review: Planet Earth is Amazing
Summary: 5 Stars

This series is amazing. There is not much more to say than that. I enjoyed the series, and loved that there was a bonus after each episode showing how they filmed that particular segment. Absolutely worth the buy.

Description of Planet Earth: The Complete BBC Series [HD DVD]

With an unprecedented production budget of $25 million, and from the makers of Blue Planet: Seas of Life, comes the epic story of life on Earth. Five years in production, over 2,000 days in the field, using 40 cameramen filming across 200 locations, shot entirely in high definition, this is the ultimate portrait of our planet. A stunning television experience that captures rare action, impossible locations and intimate moments with our planet's best-loved, wildest and most elusive creatures. From the highest mountains to the deepest rivers, this blockbuster series takes you on an unforgettable journey through the daily struggle for survival in Earth's most extreme habitats. Planet Earth takes you to places you have never seen before, to experience sights and sounds you may never experience anywhere else.
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 (mountains, caves, deserts, shallow seas, seasonal forests, etc.) until the entire planet has been magnificently represented by the most astonishing sights 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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