This is Planet Earth
By Glinda
If you didn’t get this for Christmas, hurry and get the 5-disc HD DVD set of Planet Earth from Amazon, it’s on sale as well as being eligible for Super-Saver shipping.
I cannot recommend this series highly enough. The photography and cinematography are absolutely stunning, breathtaking, and all sorts of other positive adjectives ending with -ing. The stately intonations of Sir David Attenborough add some wonderful narration.
Both adults and children will be spellbound watching this. Although it does contain death, since there is no way a documentary about nature could not feature the hunted and the hunter, it is not done in an off-putting manner.
This video will give you just a slight taste of the wonders that await you. And please, don’t think of my sudden YouTube fascination as slacking off so much as just enjoying the holidays!
December 28th, 2007 at 7:30 pm
Mark has been after me to get a DVD. I do believe this is what he wants. 5 discs??? Sigh….
December 31st, 2007 at 10:18 am
We got it for Christmas, and it is fabulous–all those adjectives that are overused in normal life fail to describe it adequately: awe-inspiring, transcendant, breath-taking…great to watch with kids, too, especially if they are the kind who understand that baby predators have to eat, same as the grazers. It has its “Mutual of Omaha” moments (for those of us who grew up in the 60s and 70s, you’ll know what I mean). Buy it!