The Living Planet - A Portrait of the Earth
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Actor: David AttenboroughBrand: WEA DES Moines Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 720 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-05-27
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: WEA
Movie Reviews of The Living Planet - A Portrait of the Earth
Movie Review: Next after `Life on Earth' but with more Earth science
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the second in David Attenborough big nature television series works. 12 episodes long the template is based on `Life on Earth' and follows a similar pattern of the presenter encountering nature around our planet.
Life on Earth was about the evolution of life starting with a barren earth and working through the increase of the complexity of life. The Living Planet takes a look at how species adapt to a wide range of environments across Earth. It involves more areas of earth science such as geology, climatology and environmental science. It is also about the life cycle of many organisms from their birth to their death. There is lots of predator prey interaction and more about how humans deal with these conditions.
Each episode ends with a change in the environment and moves onto a new one for the next. I would certainly try to watch `Life on Earth' before you watch this although it does work as a standalone series it is more like a closer look at the forms of life in `Life on Earth' while integrating their stories with the movement and activity of the Earth.
Like `Life on Earth' there is a wealth of natural knowledge that is overwhelming and is one of the finest nature programs ever made. It is another fine example of why David Attenborough is the world's leading presenter of nature. After you have finished watching this, move onto his next series `The Trials of Earth' although he did do some other unrelated works in-between.
(Note: The region 1 series is out of order and they omitted some introductions and endings.)
Summary of The Living Planet - A Portrait of the Earth
This 4 DVD Box Set contains 12 programs hosted by anthropologist David Attenborough . New Worlds: As the planet spins, shifts, erupts, melts, and freezes, it forces its inhabitants to accept this truth: A life-form either changes its ways or it passes away.; The Frozen World: They shouldn?t support life, the coldest, most desolate reaches of the earth.; The Margins of the Land: The Earth seems to have saved (reserved) some of its most remarkable displays of life for that special place where the land meets the sea.; Jungle: It spans the globe - an immense, green, equatorial belt called the jungle.; Sweet Fresh Water: As fresh water makes its mad, headlong plunge from the mountains to the salty oceans, it actually seems to "age."; The Northern Forests: Anthropologist David Attenborough's probing cameras and fresh insights make the woodlands a wonderland of fascinating extremes.; The Building of the Earth: From the icy summits of the Himalayas to the lush Tropics, anthropologist David Attenborough's view is awesome.; Worlds Apart: In a stirring piece of filmmaking, anthropologist David Attenborough takes you to out-of-the-way places that are, in every sense of the phrase, out of this world.; Seas of Grass: Where it grows, there is life.; The Open Ocean: Water covers two-thirds of the Earth, but the immense, tantalizing world beneath the sea remains one of the planet's great mysteries.; The Sky Above: If the atmosphere that surrounds the Earth can be called an envelope, then anthropologist David Attenborough delivers it in a first-class and awe-inspiring way.; The Baking Deserts: Scorching days, frigid nights. The desert should be the most relentlessly hostile place for life on the planet.Similar DVD Movies
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