Planet Earth

Season 2 - Planet Earth

• Season 2 Episode 8: Deserts Short David Attenborough focuses on the life to be found in the world's deserts
• Season 2 Episode 7: The Future (2007) Series looking at the history of the planet, the natural factors that have affected it, and mankind's impression on the landscape
• Season 2 Episode 6: Ocean Deep (2007) An exploration of the survival techniques used by creatures inhabiting the oceans of the world, where adaptation is paramount for those dwelling on the surface as well as below. Pods of dolphins are filmed charging in search of prey, surprising methods for conserving energy are revealed as deep-sea octopuses 'fly' with wings, and vampire squid use bioluminescence to create a colour display. Last in series
• Season 2 Episode 5: Seasonal Forests (2007) An insight into woodlands around the world, from the silent, stunted conifers cloaked in snow and ice in the taiga forest, to the broadleaf woods in North America and Europe. Cameras capture the majesty of the 100-metre-high giant redwoods in California, as well as Madagascar's unusual upside-down species, which store water in their swollen trunks and harbour strange wildlife
• Season 2 Episode 4: Shallow Seas (2007) Following the epic journey of a humpback whale and its calf as they travel from a tropical paradise to the species' great feeding ground in the icy polar seas. David Attenborough also narrates footage of colonies of seabirds in the Arabian desert and surfing dolphins in Australia that swim onto the beach to catch their fish
• Season 2 Episode 3: Jungles (2007) The team travel to the Ngogo Forest in Uganda, where they study the largest chimpanzee group in the world defending their territory against neighbours. Life-forms such as the flying colugo, red crab spiders, blue birds of paradise and the parasitic fungi cordyceps - which have developed unique survival abilities - are also observed
• Season 2 Episode 2: Great Plains (2007) The wildlife on the great plains of Africa, Asia, North America and the Arctic, which cover a quarter of the Earth's land surface. The distinctive Tibetan fox is captured on film for the first time, while a herd of caribou migrates 2,000 miles across the tundra in search of grass. Night vision equipment tracks a pride of 30 lions hunting elephants near one of the region's few remaining waterholes
• Season 2 Episode 1: Ice Worlds (2007) Camera crews follow the activities of wildlife in the Arctic and Antarctic, including an emperor penguin colony's nine-month migration across sea ice to its breeding ground. The team also take aerial and underwater shots to capture humpback whales feeding and track a male polar bear as he swims 100km to find new ice from which to hunt seals

Season 1 - Planet Earth

• Season 1 Episode 7: Behind the Scenes: Camels (2007) No synopsis available
• Season 1 Episode 6: Forests (2007) Flora and fauna thrive in diverse forests.
• Season 1 Episode 5: Deserts (2007) David Attenborough concludes the documentary series by focusing on the world's deserts. Cameras explore the dry Atacama of Chile, where guanacos survive by licking dew off cacti, and capture the rare sight of wild camels eating snow to stay hydrated on Mongolia's Gobi plains. In the rocky Namibian desert, elephants desperately search for food and lions wander the wilderness hunting oryx
• Season 1 Episode 4: Caves (2007) David Attenborough looks at the world's caves, including the Lechuguilla Cave in America which contains chambers filled with six-metre-long crystals. Inside Deer Cave in Borneo he finds five million bats, whose droppings support an entire ecosystem, and observes creatures in Texas and Thailand who never see daylight
• Season 1 Episode 3: Freshwater (2007) A tour of the mightiest rivers in the world, from the deep waters of Siberia's Lake Baikal, home to the world's only freshwater seal, to the wetlands downstream of Earth's tallest waterfall, patrolled by frenzied piranhas. There's also footage of the lightning-quick ambush of wildebeest by crocodiles in Africa, and macaque monkeys swimming underwater to catch crabs in Indonesia. David Attenborough presents
• Season 1 Episode 2: Mountains (2007) The nature series looks at the animals that live on some of the planet's highest mountains. Cameras show gelada baboons screaming to frighten off predators in China, demoiselle cranes struggling to fly over the Himalayas, snow leopards hunting on the peaks of Pakistan and a wild giant panda nursing a baby in a hillside cave. Narrated by David Attenborough
• Season 1 Episode 1: From Pole to Pole (2006) Series exploring the history of the planet and the natural factors that have affected it. The programme also examines mankind's dependence on the elements, and how animals' lives are governed by the seasons. A mother polar bear prepares her cubs for a long journey to avoid becoming stranded on floating glaciers. Narrated by David Attenborough

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  Planet Earth - The Complete Collection

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  Planet Earth/The Blue Planet: Seas of Life

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