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Planet Earth: The Complete Series [HD DVD] | ![Planet Earth: The Complete Series [HD DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/6147%2Bk8mfuL._SL500_.jpg) | Actor: David Attenborough
Studio: BBC Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $99.98
Buy Used: $10.42
as of 11/21/2009 22:21 CST details
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New (43) Used (39) Collectible (5) from $10.42
Seller: yourdvdstorenh
Rating:  reviews
Sales Rank: 2962
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Published)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: HD DVD
Region: 0
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 4
Running Time: 550 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 6 x 5 x 0.9
MPN: HDE2939
UPC: 794051293923
EAN: 0794051293923
ASIN: B000MRAAJW
Release Date: April 24, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Description
With an unprecedented production budget of $25 million, and from the makers of iBlue Planet: Seas of Life/i, 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.
Amazon.com
As of its release in early 2007, iPlanet Earth/i is quite simply the greatest nature/wildlife series ever produced. Following the similarly monumental achievement of iThe Blue Planet: Seas of Life/i, 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.p 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).p 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 iPlanet Earth/i's final episode: "We can now destroy or we can cherish--the choice is ours." i--Jeff Shannon/ip p span class="h1"strongMore iPlanet Earth/i/strong/span table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="4" cellpadding="4" tr align="center" valign="top" class="tiny" td width="33%" img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000MRAAJM.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg" border="0"br iPlanet Earth/i on Blu-ray/td td width="33%" img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000MR9D5E.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg" border="0"br iPlanet Earth/i on DVD/td td width="33%" img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000069HXC.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg" border="0"br More BBC DVDs/td /tr /table /p p span class="h1"strongStills from IPlanet Earth/I (click for larger image)/strong/span table border="0" cellpadding="4" width="100%" cellspacing="4"p p tr align="center" valign="top" td img border="0" src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/dvd/aplus/planetearth/planetearth-falls-83070-sm.jpg"br /tdp tdimg border="0" src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/dvd/aplus/planetearth/planetearth-cat-83024-sm.jpg "br /tdp tdimg border="0" src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/dvd/aplus/planetearth/planetearth-field3-103628-sm.jpg "br /td /tr tr align="center" valign="top" td img border="0" src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/dvd/aplus/planetearth/planetearth-herd-831180-sm.jpg"br /tdp tdimg border="0" src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/dvd/aplus/planetearth/planetearth-shark-103814-sm.jpg"br /tdp tdimg border="0" src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/dvd/aplus/planetearth/planetearth-bear-103540-sm.jpg"br /td /tr /table p
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 Planet Earth November 19, 2009
Terrence K. Wraight (Iron Station, NC USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought it as a gift. I believe it is a good set of DVDs. The only problem is that Amazon's web site could not send the item to the address in Canada that I entered. The U.S. Post office has no problem sending letters to that address, but not Amazon. I had to receive the product here in North Carolina and then send it to my relative in Canada. Not very efficient.
superb blu ray series to add to your collection November 19, 2009
joey enriquez
the whole series is just amazing!
br /great photography and painstaking work to create this masterpiece.
br /planet earth takes you to places you never thought existed.
Planet Earth on Blu-Ray November 16, 2009
Harry Meadows
I am very pleased with this purchase. The pictures are beautiful and the video footage of animals in the wild is a sight to behold. I purchased the BBC version because I wanted that narration. The first Blu-Ray DVD I received for Planet Earth had a choppy video/sound problem near the end of Disc 3, but Amazon quickly replaced the whole product and now it's close to perfect.
Planet Earth -BBC Series (4 Disk Collection) November 16, 2009
Lokesh R. Padil (India)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Well I selected free super saver shipping and the media was delivered just as fast, 5 days which is good enough for me for FREE.. ;-). Anyways I had to get it shipped to India... since a friend was coming down, he got it for me. We don't have this set available in Blue ray format (only DVD) in India... This is region free so I opted to buy it at Amazon.
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br /Anyway this product came nicely packed and it has one blue ray box that contains 4 Blue ray disks. My wife fell in love with the box itself..
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br /Outer box was made of recycled material which is a very good sign.
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br /I wanted these disks purely as a collectors item.
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br /The Box says 1080i NOT 1080p - I wish it were 1080p but anyways... till they give that out.. I am fine with this.
br /I got all the 4 Blue Ray Disks - unlike what some individuals have said that two of the disks were the same... I think that was one bad batch then.
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