Customer Reviews

The Amazon: River of the Sun [Blu-ray]

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I thought that the cover of this Equator dvd looked a litte childish, like made for kids, but since there is little film on the Amazon I bought it. Man am I glad I did. This program was exactly what I had been looking for. Very good picture quality, very good underwater footage. They focused on a wide variety of animals even some of the small but beautiful and interesting fish. Since then i've purchased the REEF OF RICHES dvd from the Equator series and also just as impressive.

5 stars for the series, 1 star for the release, so average: 3 stars

The "Equator" series is a wonderfully filmed, written and narrated nature series. In quality is matches, if not surpasses, the later and much more hyped "Planet Earth", "Life" series's. Unfortunately, the producers and/or distributors did not market it as successfully. As to the DVD releases, they also made a few blunders:

1. the cover of these DVDs are too gaudy, it makes one think of them as cheap children films. But they are not; they are professionally made nature shows.

2. they did not release them as a box set. In fact, it is very hard to find all the DVDs in the same series.

There are:

1) Power of an Ocean: The Galapagos and Palmyra ...

2) Battle for the Light: The rainforests of South East Asia ...

3) Rivers of the Sun: The mighty Amazon River ...

4) Paradox of the Andes: In Ecuador the equatorial sun ...

5) Reef of Riches: tropical jungle and on the coral reef ...

6) Challenge of Change > the Great Rift Valley ...

One day I will add all of these to my collection.

Note to Discovery: please release a box set of Bluray DVDs!

The photography is amazing and the transition from dry land to flood zone is fascinating. The way the inhabitants adapt to the change is unbelievable.

Good film focusing on the ebb and flow of the Amazon river (dichotomy dry-wet season). Especially interesting fish species native to the Amazon river with computer graphics added. Some manatee action too. Recommended.