Alongside the Single Edition, a DVD Special Edition will be available with approximately 120 minutes of bonus material. The Blu-ray includes 70 minutes of bonus material and, with technical features such as Discovery Mode, promises home entertainment at its finest.
EARTH, by Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield, is the most elaborate and expensive nature documentary ever produced to date. The film took five years to make. More than 40 camera crews shot 1,000 hours of footage in 26 countries at over 200 locations, some of which had never previously been visited. The feature film delighted critics and audiences alike.
More than 3.5 million viewers have seen the film since its cinema release. It was the first nature documentary to receive Germany’s Golden Screen award. The German-British production by Greenlight Media AG and BBC Worldwide is regarded as the most successful nature documentary of all time. EARTH is a film about the planet’s beauty, magic and fascination. It takes viewers on an unforgettable and moving journey around the globe. Thanks to state-of-the-art technology, some of it specially developed, landscapes and animals in the wild can be observed in sensational quality and from perspectives impossible to see with the human eye alone.
Synopsis:
When a gigantic asteroid struck the Earth’s surface five billion years ago, the impact was so immense that it shifted the planet’s axial tilt. This cosmic accident was crucial to the emergence of life on Earth. Without that change in the planet’s tilt, the diversity of landscapes, the seasons and the contrasts between heat and cold would probably not exist—and neither would the conditions required for life to emerge at all.
In EARTH, we embark on a journey around the globe and encounter three mothers fighting for the survival of their young. As the first rays of the spring sun appear, a polar-bear family awakens in the Arctic. Will they find food before the ice essential to their survival melts?
At the other end of the world, in the heart of the Kalahari Desert, an elephant cow and her calf attempt to reach a life-saving waterhole after a perilous journey.
On the final stage of our journey, we follow a mother humpback whale. She must bring her calf safely from the Equator to the Arctic, a distance of 6,000 kilometres. No film has previously captured this natural spectacle in all its epic variety while telling the lives of its principal characters—polar bears, elephants and humpback whales—so movingly.
EARTH, by Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield, is the most elaborate and expensive nature documentary ever produced to date. The film took five years to make. More than 40 camera crews shot 1,000 hours of footage in 26 countries at over 200 locations, some of which had never previously been visited.
The resulting feature film, EARTH, delighted critics and audiences alike. More than 3.5 million viewers have seen the film since its cinema release, and it is regarded as Europe’s most successful nature documentary of the past ten years.
Further Links:
- Film website