Planet Earth : Special Edition on DVD October 4, 2011
This fall, experience the ultimate portrait of our world like never before as BBC Earth releases Planet Earth Special Edition and Planet Earth Limited Collector’s Edition to Blu-Ray and DVD on October 4, 2011.
The blockbuster series looks more beautiful than ever, taking advantage of new advances in high definition technology since the original release. Both the 6-disc Blu-Ray and DVD box sets showcase over threee hours of fresh bonus materials including a sneak peak at Alastair Fothergill’s next project Frozen Planet, the all-new specially made program Greatest Planet Earth Moments and several other new features. Additionally, the Planet Earth Special Edition Blu-Ray contains the eleven production video diaries and the bonus series Planet Earth: the Future, which were not included on the original Blu-Ray release. Available only while supplies last, the Planet Earth Limited Collector’s Edition comes in an exquisite, numbered, collectible globe package with an exclusive set of four art cards.
From the makers of The Blue Planet: Seas of Life, Planet Earth premiered on the Discovery Channel in 2007 and became a global phenomenon. Featuring the original BBC series presented by Sir David Attenborough, Planet Earth is the #1 selling documentary DVD and #1 selling non-theatrical Blu-ray release of all-time – with over 5 million units in print. The recipient of four Emmy Awards including Outstanding Nonfiction Series, the groundbreaking series garnered media acclaim including the New York Time hailing it as a “a tour de force… a masterpiece” and the Chicago Tribune lauding it as “an absolutely extraordinary achievement.”
Fuelled by a production budget of over $25 million, Planet Earth is the most expensive factual series ever created by the BBC. Five years in the making, the first-ever nature series to be filmed entirely in high definition required over 2000 days in the field and used 40 cameramen who filmed across 200 locations around the globe. Utilizing state of the art filming techniques and technologies – ranging from revolutionary aerial lens stabilization and flash strobe-systems to ultra high-speed cameras – Planet Earth lovingly 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 awe-inspiring series takes viewers on an unforgettable journey through the daily struggle for survival in Earth’s most extreme habitats.
My husband and I have developed a love of documentary type DVDs. Planet Earth was an incredible watch. The video captured is crisp and vibrant and the scenes are beyond exceptional. I am amazed at some of the clips captured… if it weren’t for shows like this we would never see them! If you have a documentary/non-fiction movie nut on your Christmas list, definitely consider Planet Earth. It will be one they watch repeatedly and loved.
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programme 8 was jungles and that was my hubbys favorite
I would love to view this video with my kids to learn about all of the aspects of the earth!
programme 9 is shallow seas. would like to watch that. love the bright colors.
I learned that world animal day is october 6
David Attenborough Wildlife Specials
I learned that this film was produced over 4 years and filmed in over 2000 filming days. That’s a lot of time!
the Life DVD’s look pretty cool
Chris Cole is currently the Director of Development of the BBC Natural History Unit and has been working in wildlife programmes for 14 years and he is currently leading the development of new ideas for the Unit. He has produced many highly acclaimed landmark series, that you can see clips of on the BBC Earth website
I really like the “life is” section of the website. very cool videos
Oh my… so many wonderful things. I’d LOVE to have the David Attenborough Wildlife Specials
I learned that Planet Earth was filmed in 62 counties! Amazing! Thanks for the giveaway!
I’d like the Galapagos dvd set.
I would love to have this. I have only seen a couple episodes and my favorite so foar was they explores caves. I learned that this was shot over 4 years.
I would have to buy Blue Planet to complete the set. Can’t have 1 without the other! They’re amazing shows!
My family loves this series. We thoroughly enjoy the ocean and dessert, the kid is a fan of whales and I prefer the crazy reptiles that live in the dessert.
everytime i watch these shows on TV i see something else amazing that i missed the first time. I would love to own a set to share with my children as they get older.
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I like the Galapagos DVD sheshult@hotmail.com
I learned that it took Forty cameramen and hundreds of producers, scientists and guides spent four years and $25 million to make these movies.
Visited their site and really like the People section because it nice to learn about the commentators
I want the Life dvd.
I would love to have the Galapagos DVD!
I like how it shows many different habitats.
I learned that female ring-tailed lemurs are only receptive to mating for one day each year, sometimes for a window of only six hours.
i love the wildlife specials
annae07 at aol dot com
I learned that October 6th is world animal day. That’s pretty cool. Next year we will have an animal party and watch these. Thank you.
I like the Natures Most Amazing Adventures
I learned that there are other similar series, like Animal Winter Games that sound really cool!
I learned there are 11 programs in the series!:)
Thanks for the great giveaway! I would LOVE to have “The Blue Planet: Seas of Life”.
Just 3% of the planet’s water is fresh, and it is our most precious resource. Where it flows or falls it controls the distribution of all terrestrial life. This programme focuses on the unique and dramatic wildlife found within its unexplored waters.
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I’d love to own this: http://www.bbcamericashop.com/dvd/life-discovery-channel-version-15686.html
it took five years to make this
I love documentary movies! I’d love to have The Blue Planet series, too!
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I love the beautiful photographs! I wish I had a camera that could produce such amazing images! Thanks!
I love the picture of Tom Hugh-Jones with the lion cub in the meet the people section. How stinkin’ cute!
I learned that they have a whole program about life in caves, which looks fascinating!
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I learned that deserts make up 30% of our land mass.
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I liked the deep sea Dumbo octopus 🙂
I like their sea of life series.
These seem like cool videos; I would like to watch these with my baby boy, too. I think I’d like to watch all of these, but to name a couple: Nature’s Most Amazing Events and Life of Mammals.
I would love to see Life In The Freezer dvd
I found all of these fascinating and my husband would love it!
I didn’t realize that the Planet Earth series had won so many awards. I’m not surprised, though, since the images they’ve managed to capture are amazing!!!
I’d like to have the Echo and other elephants DVD set
Life of Mammals
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I have never watched these but i gave one, the volcanoes i think, to my nephews and they loved it. They have so many other great videos, I would love to see the galapagos,
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I love this series & I would love to see Echo and other elephants on DVD.
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My all time favorite game is Scrabble, I would love to be able to start my grandsons on this game using the SCRABBLE ALPHABET SCOOP Game.
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Ganges : This three-part series from the BBC Natural History Unit explores the wonder and life of the Ganges and its wildlife. This unique river provides a kaleidoscope of colour and energy to all around it, from the man-eating tigers, to giant lizards, the animals are as colourful as the human life.
The river travels from the Himalayan Mountains, through the busy and chaotic cities, to the delta, where it meets the sea. Ganges provides a vibrant and colourful look at how the river has shaped the culture, beliefs and wildlife of India.
AKA the river where all life began is a series I would be very interested in seeing.
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I home school and would love the human series
I learned that just 3% of the planet’s water is fresh, and it is our most precious resource
I want the origonal planet earth on b lueray
Blogtacular contest! Thanks so much! Janna Johnson Jannajanna@hotmail.com
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I learned that PLanet Earth is the most expensive factual series created by BBC
I learned this is a BBC series!
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Deserts make up 30% of the earth. Never would have guessed it.
And I’m a gal who has the desert in her soul.
I learned that bees fly 88,000 km to produce every pound of honey
I learned that there is a blind angelfish that only lives in a watefall.
I like the Nature’s Most Amazing Events for my daughter.
Wow So many great series I think the human series would be neat to see.
I learned dessert’s make up 30% of the planet! Thanks so much for the fantastic giveaway!
Renee Walters
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I liked many of the BBC series for use in my Montessori Middle School classroom.
I learned that just 3% of the planet’s water is fresh.
I liked that my girls can get on the website and learn useful facts about science and biology and they are not just selling things. It seems like a well put together series and I would love to give this to my daughters so they can experience how magnificent our world is!
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My daughter would love the Ocean Deep program! This is a cook giveaway,
Thanks, karen
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I love the life series but I realized looking on the site I missed a few. There were a few other documentaries that my son and I would love! Winning this would be a dream come true. A great gift for my son.
I see that “Just 3% of the planet’s water is fresh” and that program 3 focuses on the wildlife found in Fresh Water!
I like the David Attenborough Wildlife Specials.
David Attenborough Wildlife Specials are good too
Life in the Freezer looks incredible, I love the BBC shows. Life in the Freezer is going on my Christmas List.
I learned that it was the most expensive series ever made on BBC:)
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I’d also love the Galapagos DVD.
Dana Beeman: danabeeman(at)gmail(dot)com
Nature’s Most Amazing Events looks cool
We watched Planet Earth as a family and we all enjoyed it so much!
Planet earth series spent 4 years in production
I learned that it cost alot of money to make this series.
Programme 10: Seasonal Forests sounds interesting. I like the look of forests
Programme 1: Pole to Pole This programme looks at our planet as a whole. Without fresh water there is no life on land, while the sun dominates the lives of all animals and plants on earth and defines their habitats.
I was surprised to learn that only 3% of the Earth’s water is fresh water.
this is a great set of dvds. i learned that killer whales are actually dolphins!!
I would love to have the The Blue Planet: Seas of Life DVD. dwelchert@yahoo.com
I like the Life dvd. Thanks for the chance to win!
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At Planet Earth’s website, I enjoyed the Polar Bear Swimming and Water Skimming Dolphins videos.
Thanks for the great giveaway opportunity. ~Pauline (dod@rogers.com)
I learned that a newborn Pacific giant octopus is only the size of a grain of rice.
I like The Life of Mammals: The Complete Collection.
I would love the human planet
Thank you for this great contest!
I love the Galapagos DVD!
I would love The Human Planet
I love the gorgeous photos on Planet Earth. The photos of the Red Lechwe and Fennec Fox are beautiful. I’ve taken some myself of the Red Lechwe and Fennec Fox at Safari West. Some of my other favorite photos were the Boreal Forest In Snow, Mist over Polyna, Iceberg With Aourora Southern lights, Polar Bear Cubs Following Mother on Ice, and the Iguaza Falls. All so beautiful!
I like that there is a music only viewing option, I bet the images are beautiful and it would be a great thing to have plaing as a background.
BBC does such a good job on their programs, it would be a delight to win this package
I like the pictures.
I’d like to watch Human Planet
Deserts cover 30% of the earths land surface
Just 3% of the planet’s water is fresh
We would like to see the Life of Mammals DVD
i learned deserts make up up 30% of the land surface(i learned this years ago but kinda forgot)!
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I’d really love to have Human Planet!
My husband loves this series! Thanks so much for the giveaway!
Human Planet sounds interesting
Galapagos looks like a good one too
I like the Galapagos DVD
I would really love to see Wild Pacific, the documentary on the south pacific ocean.
I love the one about caves
Deserts make up 30% of the earth
I love that this series teaches my children so much about where we live and the world that surrounds us.
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I like the sand storm photo.
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I like their “Human Planet” dvd, looks pretty good!
The Ocean Deep program sounds awesome!
I’d luv to have The Blue Planet: Seas of Life…thanks!
BBC Atlas of the Natural World: Africa and Europe looks interesting
I learned that a bee’s flight is so efficient that it would need to eat only one ounce of honey to fly all the way around the globe. I wish we had fuel like that!
only 3 percent of earths water is fresh
I’d love to have the wildlife specials.
I learned that a bee’s flight is so efficient that it would need to eat only one ounce of honey to fly all the way around the globe. That is the coolest thing that I have learned in a long time.
I learned that just 3% of the planet’s water is fresh.
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I was so impressed to read that to create this they spent four years in production, over 2000 filming days, across 204 locations in 62 countries around the world. That’s A LOT of work!
I learned what a Wild Amur Leopard looks like!
I learned that just 3% of the planet’s water is fresh, thanks
I want the Wild Pacific DVD
There are more than six times the number of nerve fibres between the star-nosed mole’s nose and its brain than there are between your hand and your brain.
I learned that October 6th is World Animal Day. I never knew that! I love animals!!!
lyndsey.rullman at hotmail dot com
I like the BBC atlas of the natural world. Rita
That was easy! LOL The picture of the sandstorm is STUNNING!!!
I’d like The Blue Planet: Seas of Life.
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I would like to watch the Nature’s Most Amazing Events…
I learned that Without fresh water there is no life on land,
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I visited the site. This is learning about our planet Earth in a very colorful and interesting way.
My husband LOVES Planet Earth! If I won he would be so excited!
Wild China video sounds interesting
id like The Life of Mammals: The Complete Collection
I learned that they filmed for 2000 days and in 62 countries to get this dvd series.
kerrie@mayansfamily.com
I’d like to see Yellowstone, even the cover looks great for that one!
i really like the wildlife specials
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Nature’s most amazing events
Directly from their site: The star-nosed mole has the best sense of touch of any mammal, with over 25,000 tiny papillae in each square cm of its 22 incredibly sensitive appendages.
I didn’t know there was such a thing as the star-nosed mole!
I learned that the BBC Wildlife Fund helps save threatened wildlife and places.
I would love to see the Galapagos DVD! jessicapeeling@yahoo.com
I also like the life documentary and know my kids would love earth
I like “Nature’s Most Amazing Events”!
I love the educational aspect of the movies
I learned that it took 4 years and 25 million dollars, 40 camera men and hundreds of producers, scientists, and guides to make Planet Earth. WOW.
I love their life videos, too. Thanks for having the contest!
I learned that oceans cover two-thirds of the planet, yet largely remain unexplored. The oceans episodes are my favorites!
I would also love to have the wild pacific as well…I love the pacific ocean
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Thanks for the giveaway…the series was shot entirely in high-definition film.
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I would love to own the Yellowstone DVD or the Life in Cold Blood!
They also sell the blue planet.
I want The Life of Birds.