This has never actually been filmed before in the deep, and this whole tug-of-war played out right in front of us." Cannibalistic giant squid, from "Planet Earth: Blue Planet II."Īttenborough said of the series, "It's beautiful. Producer Orla Doherty saw what happens when squid run out of fish: "What took our breath away, as happens so many times in the deep ocean, was when this happened - when they don't have fish to feed on, they feed on each other. That reality expands each time one of these series hits the air: Some type of previously-unfilmed or newly-discovered animal behavior, like the giant trevally fish that leaps out of the water to snag birds in mid-air … the tuskfish that's so clever it uses tools, bringing clams back to its "kitchen" to smash them open … and the submarine that can follow two-meter-long squid down 3,000 feet "In the service of trying to tell the truth, when you see what's happening - like for example, plastic in the oceans - if you don't actually represent that, you are distorting what the reality is." "And that's true, and the reason that it's true is there wasn't the urgent need that there is now for a bit of finger-wagging," Attenbrorough replied. Sir David Attenborough on nature films 01:13 Also, explores the Artic and Antarctic worlds. one place researched by fewer people than have been into space. They surf! And as far as we can tell, they do so for the sheer joy of it." Surf's up! (For bottlenose dolphins, that is.) From "Planet Earth: Blue Planet II."Īs far as we can tell, the formula of new science, new technology and a familiar old face has brought its own form of sheer joy. Alastair Fothergill David Attenborough George Fenton BBC Video (Firm) Warner Home Video (Firm) - Five years in the making. TV on BBC America, featuring, for example, bottlenose dolphins, which narrator Sir David Attenborough tells us, "They are extremely intelligent, and with this intelligence comes playfulness. The third has great footage of the Arctic and Antarctic seas, while the fourth (while the slowest, still very good) has some CRAZY footage of a killer whale attacking a seal in very shallow water, and then playing catch with it afterwards. See over 120 minutes of some of the most startling wildlife photography ever to have been shown on television The Blue Planet: Seas of Life features amazing new discoveries and photographic breakthroughs in two episodes: 'Ocean World' and 'Frozen Seas.' 135 minutes. "Planet Earth: Blue Planet II," the latest BBC America nature series - four years in the making - has hit U.S. The makers of the best wildlife documentaries learned long ago that it takes more than just pretty pictures of animals to grab an audience. A legend in the field of nature documentaries, Sir David Attenborough is back on American television with a new series called "Planet Earth: Blue Planet Two." After all these years, you might say Attenborough is a force of nature all by himself, as our Mark Phillips discovered: Startling wildlife photography reveals the sea and its communities at their most fearsome and alluring in this landmark BBC mini-series on the ocean, a world we know less about than the moon.
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