Product Details

• Actors: Patricia Clarkson
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Nat'l Geographic Vid
• DVD Release Date: January 23, 2007
• Run Time: 150 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000ION2E4
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #77,044 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "National Geographic - Amazing Planet" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 01/09/2007 Rating: Nr

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for students, August 10, 2009

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LDW - See all my reviews

This review is from: National Geographic - Amazing Planet (DVD)

Other reviews of this video state that the music overpowers much of its strengths. I agree this may be true. However, being a middle school science teacher, I have found that "Amazing Planet" as an addition to my lesson plans on plate tectonics seriously engages my 6th grade students, who are mesmerized by the images and dramatic tone of the narrator. Since the film at times plays more like a suspense film than a "quiet" documentary, it is a welcome form of media, as I find myself competing for the children's attention (as we all know, many lives unfortunately revolve around loud Ipods, raucous YouTube clips, action-packed computer games, and edge-of-your-seat movies). "Amazing Planet" helps me convince the kids that geology can be just as exciting and fun to learn!

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Amazingly loud soundtrack, February 12, 2007

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Das Frosty "dasfrosty" (Craterville, Martia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: National Geographic - Amazing Planet (DVD)

If I didn't find the subject matter so interesting I would have turned this off in five minutes. The background noise (some may call it music) in the soundtrack is so loud that you can barely hear the narrator's voice unless you turn the volume up to pain levels. I just watched 15 minutes of it and my ears are still ringing!

That said the the perspective of our planet presented in this documentary is quite captivating and the cinematography is first rate. If you can stand the noise it's well worth watching, but if you want your hearing to last long enough to hear your grandchildren's first words then you may want to avoid watching this one too often.

(Note: this review is based on the broadcast version of the show, not the DVD release.)

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed, December 30, 2007

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Mechelle Bissonnette "mish_mell" (Exeter, NH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: National Geographic - Amazing Planet (DVD)

I bought this DVD after VERY careful research. My children had video cassettes when they were little of a program called Amazing Planet by National Geographic that had 4 aliens flying around the planet on missions. I enjoyed the shows as much as my children and when I saw that I could purchase multiple shows on one DVD, I did. This DVD clearly stated in the description "starring Pat Cashman" who was the "Captain" on the show. However, I was more than disappointed when I discovered this DVD was not the one I had wanted. If you're looking for the children's program "Amazing Planet," this isn't it. Regardless, this was a great program even though it was not what I was looking for.
Whomever is responsible for the mistake in the credits ought to correct it.