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Life [videorecording] / series producer, Martha Holmes ; a BBC/Discovery Channel/SKAI co-production ; the Open University.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 1000115787 | BBC EarthLanguage: English Original language: English Subtitle language: French, Spanish Publication details: [United States] : BBC Earth : 2 Entertain Video ; Burbank, CA : Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video, Inc., c2010.Edition: [Original UK broadcast version]Description: 4 videodiscs (586 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 1419888579
  • 9781419888571
Uniform titles:
  • Life (Television program).
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Disc 1. Challenges of life -- Reptiles and amphibians -- Mammals -- Disc 2. Fish -- Birds -- Disc 3. Insects -- Hunters and hunted -- Disc 4. Creatures of the deep -- Plants -- Primates.
Production credits:
  • Music composed by George Fenton ; narrator, David Attenborough.
Narrator, David Attenborough.Summary: Four years in the making, and filmed over 3000 days across every continent and in every habitat, see 130 incredible stories from frontiers of the natural world. Discover the glorious variety of life on Earth and the spectacular and extraordinary tactics animals and plants have developed to stay alive. This is evolution in action: individual creatures under extreme pressure to overcome challenges from adversaries and their environment.
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From the award-winning BBC Natural History Unit, makers of Planet Earth and The Blue Planet: Seas of Life, this is the original UK broadcast version of Life, with narration by renowned naturalist David Attenborough and music by Oscar and Emmy winning composer George Fenton In Planet Earth, we brought you the world as youve never seen it before. Now, get closer with Life. Four years in the making, filmed over 3000 days, across every continent and in every habitat, with breathtaking new high definition filming techniques developed since Planet Earth, Life presents 130 incredible stories from the frontiers of the natural world, 54 of which have never been filmed before. Packed with excitement, revelation and entertainment, this remarkable 10-part blockbuster captures unprecedented, astonishingly beautiful sequences and demonstrates the spectacular and extraordinary tactics animals and plants have developed to survive and thrive.

Originally broadcast on the BBC in 2009.

Special features: Life on location, a collection of 10 behind the scenes video diaries.

Disc 1. Challenges of life -- Reptiles and amphibians -- Mammals -- Disc 2. Fish -- Birds -- Disc 3. Insects -- Hunters and hunted -- Disc 4. Creatures of the deep -- Plants -- Primates.

Music composed by George Fenton ; narrator, David Attenborough.

Narrator, David Attenborough.

Four years in the making, and filmed over 3000 days across every continent and in every habitat, see 130 incredible stories from frontiers of the natural world. Discover the glorious variety of life on Earth and the spectacular and extraordinary tactics animals and plants have developed to stay alive. This is evolution in action: individual creatures under extreme pressure to overcome challenges from adversaries and their environment.

DVD; NTSC, region 1; Dolby Digital 5.1; widescreen.

English dialogue with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles.

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