From Pole to Pole

From Pole to Pole

What would the earth be like without the sun? We'll never know, but the emperor penguins come the nearest to that experience, as they suffer through winter in Antarctica, where temperatures can drop to minus 70 degrees centigrade. Meanwhile, the sun brightens the far north and the polar bears come out of hibernation. Spring in northern Canada means the migration of three million caribou across the arctic tundra. Winter in the deciduous forests of eastern Russia makes hunting difficult for the Amur leopard, the rarest cat in the world. On the island of New Guinea, birds have plenty of food, giving them time for elaborate mating rituals. The sun influences life in the oceans just as it does on land, explains the narrator. We watch where the seals go to breed -- and we see the Great White sharks that follow them. What would the Earth be like without water? Planet Earth shows us where water is abundant and where it is scarce. During the dry season in the Kalahari desert, elephants go ... Written by J. Spurlin

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From Pole to Pole

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From Pole to Pole - EPS 01

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IMDb: 9.0
2007
49 min

What would the earth be like without the sun? We'll never know, but the emperor penguins come the nearest to that experience, as they suffer through winter in Antarctica, ...

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HD Mountains

Mountains

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Mountains - EPS 02

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IMDb: 8.8
2007
48 min

Mountains are the most prominent products of the immense forces which shape the living planet: tectonic drift, volcanic activity and erosion by wind, water, frost and pre ...

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HD Fresh Water

Fresh Water

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Fresh Water - EPS 03

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IMDb: 8.8
2007
49 min

Although merely 3% of water on earth, fresh water plays an important part in the planet's weather and erosion. It is immensely important for all non-marine wildlife, whic ...

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HD Caves

Caves

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Caves - EPS 04

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IMDb: 8.7
2007
49 min

The Earth's large, deep calcareous caves are virtually inaccessible and therefore barely explored - requiring expert diving where flooded. Some of its wildlife is as stra ...

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HD Deserts

Deserts

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Deserts - EPS 05

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IMDb: 8.7
2007
49 min

A large and growing part of earth's land mass is covered in desert - each one widely varied in composition and dryness. Wildlife species have adapted in different ways to ...

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HD Ice Worlds

Ice Worlds

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Ice Worlds - EPS 06

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IMDb: 8.8
2007
49 min

The polar caps have the most extreme seasonal contrasts, growing and melting vast ice masses, so wildlife adapts by annual migrations. The majority of Antartica is a vast ...

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HD Great Plains

Great Plains

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Great Plains - EPS 07

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IMDb: 8.7
2007
49 min

A quarter of the earth's land mass, from arctic to tropical, are open plains consisting of lowland as well as highland plateaus. Here grows virtually indestructible, fast ...

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HD Jungles

Jungles

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Jungles - EPS 08

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IMDb: 8.8
2007
49 min

On 3% of the Earth's surface, the rain forest is the habitat for half our animal species, even 80% of insects. So its wildlife is most competitive, like the birds of para ...

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HD The Shallow Seas

The Shallow Seas

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The Shallow Seas - EPS 09

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IMDb: 8.8
2007
49 min

Shallow seas cover only 8% of earth's surface, but contain the richest, most varied maritime life: from plankton and coral (literally vital for the very existence of reef ...

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HD Seasonal Forests

Seasonal Forests

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Seasonal Forests - EPS 10

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IMDb: 8.8
2007
49 min

Trees are earth's largest organisms and are also one of the planet's oldest inhabitants. Seasonal forests (unlike tropical rain-forest) the largest land habitats. A third ...

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HD Ocean Deep

Ocean Deep

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Ocean Deep - EPS 11

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IMDb: 8.8
2007
49 min

Open ocean, a vast biotope covering two thirds of the planet, some shallow, some as deep as the mountain ranges are high. The ocean has an immense, precariously complex f ...

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