The Blue Planet - Seas of Life Collector's Set (Parts 1-4)
by Alastair Fothergill
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Actor: David AttenboroughDirector: Alastair Fothergill
Producer: Alastair Fothergill
Producer: Andrew Byatt
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Anamorphic, Box set, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 392 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-08-27
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Video
DVD Reviews of The Blue Planet - Seas of Life Collector's Set (Parts 1-4)
DVD Review: WOW!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have watched the complete set twice now and will watch it again and again, I'm sure. Amazing photography! There are so many things in this series of DVD's that I could never have imagined. It was just fascinating!DVD Review: Excellent Nature Film
Summary: 5 Stars
We absolutely love this series of nature movies. I have always loved the ocean and this displays it so magnificently. The photography is the most amazing footage of the seas. I've never seen better. We play this series silently on our large screen TV in our family room during parties as a backdrop. People are mesmerized by it and will sit for hours and comment on how great it is. We never get tires of watching it.DVD Review: The Blue Planet - Seas of Life
Summary: 5 Stars
This collector's set got here in excellent shape and my son has it now and is enjoying it.DVD Review: High art (and it should be on Blu-Ray)
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the great works of wildlife photography and documentary filmmaking. The visuals are just beyond belief. Each of the documentaries is like looking at a work of art. The narration, the information and the organization of the work is also outstanding. There is never a dull moment because there is always something new to look at.
The films have incredible scope and vision. For example, "seasonal seas" explains the cycle of the oceans and shows life from the microscopic level up to sharks, seals, dolphins and whales.
This is a work that demands it be put on Blu Ray and I can't comprehend why it isn't out there along with "planet earth". If you want to understand the complexity and beauty of life in the world, there is no better place to start than here.
DVD Review: Very relaxing
Summary: 5 Stars
These programs are beautiful and informative. The narrator's voice is very soothing. I also sometimes mute the sound and just watch the pictures if I feel like relaxing.
Description of The Blue Planet - Seas of Life Collector's Set (Parts 1-4)
Covering 70% of the planet, the ocean is truly a dominating force, yet we know less about our oceans than we do about the surface of the moon. Five years in the making, with a budget of over $10 million, The Blue Planet: Seas of Life is the most comprehenExtraordinary footage and eloquent narration by David Attenborough highlight the BBC's remarkable wildlife series The Blue Planet: Seas of Life. "Ocean World" begins with astonishing views of a gigantic blue whale--the elusive Holy Grail of undersea photography--and the marvels continue to demonstrate the power, diversity, and profound ecological influence of Earth's oceans. "Frozen Seas" examines whales, walruses, penguins, and other creatures under the extreme conditions of the Arctic and Antarctic Circles. The next two episodes are even better. "Open Ocean" travels thousands of miles into the vast "liquid desert," where currents determine how the ocean's diverse life forms will assume their places in the food chain. More amazing, "The Deep" descends with a state-of-the-art submersible to the ocean's abyssal plain and beyond, filming such bizarre creatures as the fangtooth, bioluminescent jellies, transparent squid, the giant-mouthed gulper eel, and the never-before-seen hairy angler fish.
"Seasonal Seas" focuses on the explosion of life that accompanies every annual blooming of plankton, numbering in the countless billions and captured here with brilliant microphotography. In "Coral Seas," miles-long reefs of living coral are explored, from deep within (requiring brief computer animation) to the surrounding environs, where you'll see white-tipped sharks in a feeding frenzy while beautiful harlequin shrimp wrestle with a starfish. "Tidal Seas" explores the myriad life forms that thrive when lunar gravity pulls the oceans offshore. "Coasts" is easily the most brutal episode, but no less mesmerizing. The most unexpected, and horrifying, sequence is the orca, earning its "killer whale" nickname by capturing, killing, and tail-tossing a seal pup--a sequence so mysteriously primal that even the most seasoned marine biologist will be utterly amazed. One of the finest wildlife programs you're ever likely to see, The Blue Planet: Seas of Life provides the privilege of visiting a truly alien world teeming with the rarest wonders of nature. The series was recut into the feature-length Deep Blue in 2005. --Jeff Shannon
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